Nikki Glaser reveals Pete Davidson joke about her that still hurts

Nikki Glaser knows that if you’re going to dish it out, you need to be able to take it. But that hasn’t made it any easier for her to be on the receiving end of jokes.

During a recent podcast appearance, the comedian, celebrity roast expert, and upcoming Golden Globes host admitted that she hates being roasted herself. “I literally can’t take criticism,” Glaser said on The Run-Through With Vogue.” I don’t like any feedback.”

Glaser, 40, made a name for herself in the comedy world in large part due to her unforgettable performances in celebrity roasts — but one joke at her expense from the 2016 Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe still stings to this day.

“Pete Davidson had one about how I don’t have an ass,” she recalled. “I mean, I knew I didn’t, and I know I don’t, but the fact that Pete Davidson had taken that in and sat with it, and I sat with it too. It hurts, because I don’t have an ass. But the fact that he had really thought about it, or maybe someone wrote the joke for him and he didn’t have to think about it at all, but he at least had to be like, ‘That works for her.’ It just like, it hurt me.”

A representative for Davidson declined to comment on Glaser’s remarks.

Glaser recounted the joke from the Saturday Night Live alum with good humor, but she also emphasized that roasts are not an entirely pleasurable experience to be a part of.

“I still think about some of the jokes that have been made about me from roasts six years ago, and they still haunt me,” she said. “I still see them when I look in the mirror. They will uncover things about you that you don’t even know about yourself. Or it’s a thing you’ve always been like, ‘Yeah, I think this about me, but I’m just really mean to me. No one else has noticed that.’ And then it’s like, ‘Oh f—, they did too.'”

Glaser said that external confirmation of your inner insecurities is one of the toughest parts about being roasted, right up there with observations you hadn’t even considered that the audience responds to with ecstatic laughter. “It’s really more about the audience reaction to a joke that hurts more,” she explained.

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“Blake Griffin said I looked like Larry Bird, and the response from the crowd was so overwhelming. Like it killed so hard that I was like, ‘I can’t deny that,'” Glaser recalled. On top of Griffin and Davidson’s memorable jabs, Glaser can still immediately call to mind one made by Cybill Shepherd at the Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis: “It was like, ‘I saw Nikki backstage. I walked into the bathroom and I saw her from behind. And I was like, ‘Oh my God, that’s a model.’ And then she turned around and I go, ‘Oh, comedian.’ That was like, oof.”

Glaser is set to emcee the 82nd Golden Globes ceremony on Sunday, marking the first major awards hosting gig of her career.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly recently, she teased her hosting strategy. “I am a fangirl,” Glaser said. “I am excited to be there. I don’t want anything to be phoned in. I don’t want anything to seem rehearsed. I really want to represent the people watching at home, so I want it to feel conversational. I want people to feel like, ‘Whoa, that’s maybe how I would do it.'”