"It's not funny, Glaser said about the scrapped political jokes. I was going to come in at some point and say, I'm hearing from the bar that we're out of ice. And you know, we don't really need ice. And actually, I hate ice.' It just felt like, oh, even that's just being too trivial. That's what it felt like. This isn't even that anymore. It's hard to strike the right tone."
"The comedian also revealed she threw away a joke originally sent by Steve Martin about the renaming of the Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center. Glaser said Martin agreed with scrapping the joke, saying it didn't fit the tone of the show. It was like, you just don't say that guy's name right now, she said. I just want to give it space."
Nikki Glaser said she scrapped multiple political jokes from her Golden Globes monologue, including jokes targeting President Donald Trump and ICE, because the material felt inappropriate given recent circumstances. She described cutting an ice-related bit as too trivial and hard to justify. Glaser also discarded a joke sent by Steve Martin about renaming the Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center after Martin agreed it did not fit the tone. Glaser included jabs at CBS News and the Department of Justice in her opening. Several celebrities at the ceremony wore pins protesting ICE and mourning Renee Good.
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