This is no laughing matter.
Nikki Glaser is facing backlash for making jokes about sex trafficking, rape and molestation while she hosted “Saturday Night Live” for the first time this weekend.
During her nearly 10-minute opening monologue, the stand-up comedian said that she’s become “obsessed with slavery recently” because she keeps seeing sex trafficking warnings in women’s public bathrooms.
“They’re in every stall. They’re in every world language,” she said. “The English is really tiny and it’s like, ‘You wish.’”
“Men’s restrooms do not have these signs,” Glaser continued. “I don’t know what signs you have? You have signs that are like, ‘Want a slave? Text Traffick to 69-69.’”
The “Trainwreck” actress explained that being trafficked is “a big fear” for her Gen Z girlfriends.
“I don’t relate. I’m 41. That was not a fear of mine ever in my 20s,” she said. “In my 20s, I just feared good old-fashioned rape. I didn’t think it would be a career. We didn’t think it was anything more than a ‘temp job’ on a frat house futon.”
“It’s real, though. I’m getting scared. I was out with them and I was like, ‘What if we get trafficked?’ And they were like, ‘You’re good,’” Glaser shared. “They’re like, ‘We’re safer when you’re with us because they think you’re our madam.’”
Glaser also said her friends told her she has “resting Ghislaine face,” referring to late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s right-hand woman Ghislaine Maxwell, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison on sex-trafficking charges.
Earlier in her monologue, Glaser called New York City “Epstein’s original island.” Epstein, who died at age 66 in 2019, owned a private island, Little Saint James, that acted as his base of operations for underage sex trafficking.
In another part of her act, Glaser talked about when her 4-year-old nephew asked her to shower with him.
“My sister was like, ‘He can take a shower with you. It’s fine. He does it with us,’” she said. “I’m like, ‘That’s fine for you guys but are you really okay with an adult showering with your child?’ Maybe it’s okay if you come and supervise.”
“What if I molest him?’ She was like, ‘Would you?!’ I was like, ‘Like, no! Never. That’s disgusting!’” Glaser went on. “But that’s what I’d say if I was gonna [do it]. [Abusers] lie. Don’t trust anyone! I don’t even trust myself.”
Glaser’s monologue divided viewers, many of whom called out the comic for taking her jokes too far.
“okay nikki glaser lost me cause why are we talking about molestation and pedophilia!???” one fan wrote on X.
“Nikki Glaser isn’t funny at all tonight,” another fan said.
“nikki glaser bombed,” someone else tweeted.
A fourth viewer agreed, “Nikki Glaser, disastrous monologue, what an absolute horrible performance.”
“Nikki Glaser on SNL= worst host ever. Not one joke in that painful monologue hit,” another viewer stated.
But other fans defended Glaser’s monologue.
“Nikki Glaser just had the best SNL monologue since like idk Chappelle maybe,” one viewer declared.
“For those offended by Nikki Glaser, turn off your TV, put on Ms. Rachel or something, get your pacifier and go to bed,” a different defender of Glaser’s tweeted.
“Nikki Glaser killed it. That monologue was dark,” another supporter wrote.
Glaser appeared in multiple sketches during her “SNL” hosting debut. She played Princess Belle in a “Beauty and Mr. Beast” sketch and an anxious guest in a “The Jennifer Hudson Show” sketch.
Sombr was the episode’s musical guest. He performed “12 to 12” and “Back to Friends.”
