Nikki Glaser made her Saturday evening live hosting debut, but her monologue, which lasted ten minutes, upset many viewers.
The 41-year-old media personality made a number of controversial jokes during her performance, with passing mentions of heinous crimes such as s– human trafficking, child abuse and r-pe.
Glaser began, “You can go to the nail salon with a friend, but you get separated at the border. They won’t let you sit next to each other. It’s so antisocial. You just sit there and watch Beat Bobby Flay on mute. You can’t talk to the woman who does your nails because… slavery? I don’t know! She seems stuck and sad. I don’t know.”
The Dancing with the stars alum continued, “I think I’m just paranoid and I think I’ve just been obsessed with slavery lately because every time you go to a public women’s restroom and sit in the stall there’s always a poster on the back of the stall asking you if you’re being trafficked. They’re in every stall.”
It continued as she said, “Men’s restrooms don’t have these signs. I don’t know what signs you have? You have signs that say, ‘Do you want a slave? Text traffic to 69-69.'”
Later in her monologue, Glaser joked about the new fear of human trafficking among her Gen-Z friends, comparing it to the general fear of r-pe she grew up with.
Social media sleuths did not let the episode pass without criticism, as someone on
Another echoed: ‘Things Nikki Glaser managed to make up into a joke on her snl open: domestic violence, racism, sa [s–ual assault]pedophilia, s– human trafficking. Do better.”
A third chimed in, condemning the jokes: “Nikki Glaser is hosting @nbcsnl tonight. Wow, an attempt at humor on r-pe&s– human trafficking… yeah, no.”
One stated: “Nikki Glaser hosting #snl and making jokes about s– human trafficking is completely tone deaf and offensive. WTF,” wrote an X user.
