Comedy pro Nikki Glaser explores the dark and absurd realities of contemporary life in her latest stand-up special, Someday You'll Die.
with birth. “My friend just had a baby,” she says at the outset, “and so I’ve just been mourning the loss of that friendship.” Beneath the trappings of her comic persona, Glaser sets the tone early for a personal show full of observations on life and death, at times taking a meta turn to reflect on her career up to this point.
Talk of death in various forms makes for a conceptually engaging show. Yet Glaser at times deviates from this throughline to less effect. She weighs in, for example, on how comics now tailor their acts to ward off “cancel culture” by citing their personal connections to whatever group of people they might be poking fun at. These more familiar observations feel a bit hollow when set against her more personal musings.
Nikki Glaser has developed a reputation as a comedian who is willing to “go there” in her work, whether it be risqué roasts or taboo topics. In this set, Glaser makes direct reference to this reputation, and seems to be at kind of an inbetween moment: caught between the persona and the clear development shown in the special. “Why is this your career at the age of 39?” she asks as she uses a stool to act out a “gangbang” on stage.
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