Nikki Glaser backtracks on Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez joke at Golden Globes
Nikki Glaser focused Selena Gomez’s fiancé Benny Blanco in a seemingly imply joke on the Golden Globes, however she clarified that she didn’t imply to assault him.
The 40-year-old comic mirrored on her repute of coming throughout as “mean,” due to her roasting acts.
“I think I get a reputation of being mean because of the roast, but I’m hired to [be] mean for those,” Glaser mentioned, in the course of the TIME100 Summit on Wednesday, April twenty third.
Glaser continued, “The Golden Globes, I feel like the one joke that I would’ve been like, ‘That was kind of mean,’ was, I said that Selena Gomez is here because of Emilia Pérez and Benny Blanco is here because the genie granted him that one wish and looking back, I was like that was pretty mean.”
The comic shared that the joke didn’t come from a “mean place” which made her really feel prefer it was wonderful to proceed with it.
“Because everyone’s like he’s not attractive enough for her and for me, I never looked at them and actually thought that. I feel like she won too with it, like I think he’s really cool.”
This comes after Glaser beforehand revealed that she obtained the permission of each Blanco and Gomez earlier than going forward with the joke.
Again in February, Glaser shared that she despatched the music producer a “voice memo of the joke” forward of the occasion, to verify he didn’t thoughts it.
Blanco instructed her that he “cool with it,” however needed to “run it by Selena” first.
“So I got permission. I would have never had done that joke [otherwise],” she added.
