Los Angeles, CA – August 28, 2024 – Immediately, CBS and the Golden Globes® introduced that acclaimed Emmy®-nominated comic and actress Nikki Glaser is ready to host the 82ND ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBES®, the primary main award present of the season, airing Sunday, January 5, 2025 (8:00-11:00 PM, stay ET/5:00-8:00 PM, stay PT) on the CBS Tv Community, and streaming on Paramount+ within the U.S. (stay and on-demand for Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers, or on-demand for Paramount+ Important subscribers the day after the particular airs).*
“I’m completely thrilled to be internet hosting the Golden Globes. It’s one among my favourite nights of tv and now I get a entrance row seat (truly, I believe I’ve to host from the stage),” stated Glaser. “The Golden Globes just isn’t solely an enormous evening for TV and movie, but in addition for comedy. It’s one of many few instances that present enterprise not solely permits, however encourages itself to be lovingly mocked (at the very least I hope so). (God I hope so). It’s an thrilling, but difficult gig as a result of it’s stay, unpredictable, and in entrance of Hollywood’s greatest stars (who additionally could be getting wasted whereas seated subsequent to their latest exes).”
Glaser continued, “A few of my favourite jokes of all time have come from previous Golden Globes opening monologues when Tina, Amy, or Ricky have stated precisely what all of us didn’t know we desperately wanted to listen to. I simply hope to proceed in that point honored custom (that may additionally get me canceled). That is actually a dream job. Plus, I not must really feel responsible for each TV present and film I’ve binged over the previous 12 months. It was all value it. (Under Deck: Crusing Yacht Season 4 will probably be nominated, proper?).”
“Nikki Glaser brings a recent and unmatched candor to her comedy and to the Golden Globes,” stated Jay Penske, Chairman and CEO, of Dick Clark Productions and Penske Media. “Her unapologetic model made her an apparent and compelling alternative as host for this 12 months’s occasion. We’re hopeful this might be the primary of many Golden Globes that Nikki will shock and delight our CBS viewers, in addition to our audiences across the globe.”
“The Golden Globes has a wealthy historical past as an evening for entertaining, provocative humor,” stated George Cheeks, Workplace of the CEO, Paramount World, President and Chief Govt Officer, CBS. “Nikki Glaser is a comedic power whose humorous, daring and irreverent comedy will proceed that legacy and additional set up this particular as a can’t miss occasion on CBS.”
“Nikki Glaser is a comedic powerhouse whose daring and unfiltered humor is the right match for the Golden Globes,” stated Helen Hoehne, President, Golden Globes. “She is bound to deliver a singular power and spontaneity to the present that may hold the viewers entertained all evening.”
Identified for her razor-sharp wit and fearless humor, Nikki Glaser has established herself as one of many funniest voices in comedy immediately. In August of this 12 months, the Los Angeles Instances boldly described the knock-out comedian, “Nikki Glaser is abruptly the most well liked identify in comedy.” Beforehand Glaser headlined her first critically-acclaimed HBO comedy particular “Good Clear Filth” in 2022, and earned an EMMY nomination for this 12 months’s “Nikki Glaser: Sometime You’ll Die,” which set the document for each the perfect premiere evening for an HBO comedy particular in additional than two years and for the #1 largest streaming viewers for a Comedy Particular in HBO Max/Max historical past. In 2021, Glaser launched “The Nikki Glaser Podcast” for iHeartMedia and Will Ferrell’s Massive Cash Gamers Podcast Community (BMP). She presently hosts and govt produces “Lovers and Liars,” the spinoff of the hit HBO Max and CW actuality relationship sequence “FBoy Island,” which Glaser hosted and govt produced for 3 seasons. Glaser lately wrapped her world THE GOOD GIRL stand-up tour and is presently on her ALIVE AND UNWELL tour throughout the nation by Could 2025.
The Golden Globe Awards, also known as “Hollywood’s Occasion of the 12 months®,” is the biggest awards present on this planet to have fun the perfect of each movie and tv. Multi-Emmy Award®-winning producing duo Glenn Weiss and Ricky Kirshner of White Cherry Leisure (WCE) will return as govt producing showrunners for the 82nd Golden Globes. Dick Clark Productions will plan, host and produce the annual Golden Globes, which has been seen in additional than 185 international locations and territories worldwide.
CBS’ broadcast of the 81ST ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBES® on Sunday, January 7, 2024, averaged 10 million viewers (Nielsen Reside+7-Day nationwide rankings), up almost +50% from final 12 months, its largest viewers since 2020, making it the third largest televised award present on this planet approaching the Grammys and Oscars. The telecast was additionally the third-largest live-streamed CBS particular occasion on Paramount+ ever by way of AMA and attain.
Entries for Movement Image and Tv submissions have to be accomplished on-line HERE, and the deadline is Monday, November 4, 2024. The awards timetable, guidelines and classes may be discovered HERE. Nominations are set to be introduced on Monday, December 9, 2024.
*Paramount+ with SHOWTIME subscribers may have entry to stream stay through the stay feed of their native CBS affiliate on the service, in addition to on demand. Paramount+ Important subscribers won’t have the choice to stream stay however may have entry to on-demand the day after the particular airs.