Comedian Nikki Glaser Criticized For Thursday Night Football Postgame Performance

A lot of people find comedian Nikki Glaser pretty funny. The 40-year-old has numerous comedy specials and has appeared in hundreds of episodes of television.

But, for some reason, Amazon Prime thought that instead of hard-hitting football analysis following the Jets beating the Patriots 24-3, a portion of the postgame show should be dedicated to Nikki Glaser telling jokes. It did not go over well with fans, to say the least.

Glaser is getting ready to host the Golden Globes next year, and it seems like her fame increases every year. She’s been especially successful on social media, an increasingly fruitful medium for comics. But, Thursday Night Football was not her best medium.

Here’s the set.

People on social media were unimpressed.

“Somehow the Nikki Glaser postgame is even worse than the actual game,”  @KiilKenny said.

“Nikki Glaser is the worst thing to ever happen to Thursday Night Football,” another Twitter user said.

But, some came to Nikki Glaser’s defense, as well.

“damn the prime hosts are giving nikki glaser NOTHING. she deserved so much better. this is so hard to watch. these jokes are actually pretty good but its so hard to laugh past my secondhand embarrassment of her getting zero co-host laughs besides richard sherman’s heavy breathing” one user said. 

“If you’re knocking NikkiGlaser right now, you have no idea how hard that job is – how she fully committed to it despite the intense challenging conditions. And then she absolutely crushed it. I loved it. Every second of it,” another user said.

This was not Nikki Glaser’s first foray into football-related comedy. She was a huge star on the Roast of Tom Brady that premiered on Netflix earlier this year.

Will this be a one-off thing? Who knows. But, for now, it seems like it mostly fell flat, whether that was Nikki Glaser’s fault or not.