Okay, so does this sound like you? You love NPR's podcasts. You wish you could get more of all your favorite shows and you want to support NPR's mission to create a more informed public. If all that sounds appealing, then it is time to sign up for the NPR Plus bundle. Learn more at plus.npr.org.

This is fresh air.

I'm Terry Gross.

We're continuing our end-of-the-year series

featuring a few of the 2024 interviews

we particularly enjoyed.

Today, it's comic Nikki Glazer.

She's hosting the Golden Globes on Sunday,

and her latest comedy special called Someday You'll Die is nominated for a globe.

She's also currently nominated for a Grammy for Best Comedy Album

and a Critics Choice TV Award for Best Comedy Special.

When I spoke with her in July, I had to figure out how I was going to talk with her

because a lot of her comedy is about sex, in pretty explicit language that we cannot use

in a broadcast. One of her comedy specials is called Good Clean Filth. She says that she talks

about her private so much, she thinks of them as her publics.

That part of her comedy is about the pleasures, insecurities, embarrassments, and absurdities

involved with sex. In Someday You'll Die, she also talks about why she doesn't want to have

children, her thoughts on monogamy, her experiences with depression and suicidal thinking,

getting older, she's 40,

and how comics are often afraid of getting canceled. I think she's really funny. Watching her work, I'm fascinated by how she often walks the line between incredibly perceptive and potentially

tasteless or offensive. Sometimes, as I laugh out loud, I start

wondering, is it okay to laugh at this? That's especially true when she's featured at a celebrity

...