Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast. My thanks as always for clicking and listening along. I am so excited to bring you my conversation this week with for my money, one of the funniest people working right now, Nikki Glazer. Of course,

in the last couple of years, the world has come to know her as the hilarious host of the

Golden Globes working that star-studded room and for that performance, now legendary. On the

roast of Tom Brady on Netflix, where for for about nine minutes she just eviscerated

the greatest quarterback of all time.

But it's been a long road to this starring moment for Nikki.

She's been at this stand-up thing for 22 years.

She first tried an open mic night while she was in college.

She was going through a lot in her life personally at that time.

You'll hear her get into that. And she tried comedy kind of as a lark. And boy, she fell in love with it

right away, called her dad backstage and said, this is what I'm going to do with my life. But it's been a build.

Small stand-up clubs, Comedy Central roast, all that getting her to where she is now.

Time 100, she just landed,

one of the 100 most influential people in the world. She, when we got together for this conversation,

the night before, she had been there among all those stars as well, roasting them in the process on stage. But it's just one of those things where people look up and say, wow, overnight success.

She did the Gloves. She did the Tom Brady roast and look at her now, but she's been building

to this for a long time and it's well deserved. So she and I got together at a place called the Olive

Tree Cafe. Olive Tree Cafe is in New York's Greenwich Village downtown, and it sits above the comedy cellar,

which is what it appears. There's a staircase that goes down into the cellar of a building,

and in this tight little room is where everybody who's anybody in comedy has started,

who's waited in line to go on as a 20-something comic at 2 o'clock in the morning,

or if you're a big comic like Nicky Glazer now, you go in and hone your material there

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