Nikki Glaser Net Worth (Money & Salary)

What Is Nikki Glaser’s Net Worth?

With an estimated net worth of $4 million, Nikki Glaser is a notable American stand-up comedian, television host, actress, writer, producer, and podcast/radio host. She has been involved as a host, writer, and producer for MTV’s “Nikki & Sara Live” (2013) and Comedy Central’s “Not Safe with Nikki Glaser” (2016). Most recently, in 2021, she began hosting and producing “FBoy Island” on HBO Max.

Glaser has featured prominently in stand-up comedy specials such as “Nikki Glaser: Perfect” (2016) and “Nikki Glaser: Bangin’” (2019). Additionally, she made it to the semi-finals as a college student on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing.” For a duration from 2018 to 2020, Nikki hosted “You Up? With Nikki Glaser” on Sirius XM’s Comedy Central Radio and initiated “The Nikki Glaser Podcast” in March 2021.

In her acting career, Glaser has been seen in films including “Punching the Clown” (2009), “Trainwreck” (2015), “Punching Henry” (2016), and “I Feel Pretty” (2018), as well as in various television series such as “Inside Amy Schumer” (2013–2015), “Adam Ruins Everything” (2017), “A.P. Bio” (2018), “Alone Together” (2018), and “Historical Roasts” (2019).

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Early Life

Nikki Glaser, originally named Nicole Rene Glaser, was born on June 1, 1984, in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was brought up in St. Louis, Missouri, alongside her mother Julie, father Edward, and sister Lauren, and she attended Kirkwood High School. Upon completing high school, Nikki first joined the University of Colorado Boulder before transferring to the University of Kansas, where she obtained a degree in English Literature.

Career

At the age of 18, Glaser embarked on her journey in stand-up comedy by writing jokes and performing. Reflecting on this period, she mentioned, “I wrote from the perspective of my favorite stand-ups because I didn’t know what my perspective was yet.” Her Comedy Central special “Perfect” was released in 2016, followed by “Bangin’” on Netflix in 2019. Moreover, she has made appearances in stand-up performances across TV shows like “Last Comic Standing,” “Conan,” “The Half Hour,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”

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Nikki, alongside fellow comedian Sara Schaefer, co-hosted the podcast “You Had To Be There” from 2011 until 2014. Following that, she partnered with a musician to co-host the relationship-centered podcast “We Know Nothing.”Anya Marina, along with comedian Phil Hanley, made appearances. In 2013, Glaser and Schaefer took the reins of MTV’s “Nikki & Sara Live,” a show that produced 24 episodes across two seasons. That same year, Nikki participated in the pilot episode of the television series “Those Who Can’t”; however, Maria Thayer assumed her role when TruTV picked up the series in 2015. In February 2016, “Not Safe with Nikki Glaser” debuted on Comedy Central, concluding its run after 20 episodes. Glaser featured in several roasts on Comedy Central, including “The Roast of Rob Lowe” (2016), “The Roast of Bruce Willis” (2018), and “The Roast of Alec Baldwin” (2019). Additionally, she portrayed Kurt Cobain in the “Freddie Mercury” episode of Netflix’s “Historical Roasts” in 2019.

From 2013 to 2015, Glaser made her mark in five episodes of Comedy Central’s “Inside Amy Schumer.” In films, she starred alongside Schumer in “Trainwreck” (2015) and “I Feel Pretty” (2018). 2018 also saw her compete on ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars,” although Nikki and her partner Gleb Savchenko were the first couple to leave the competition. Later that year, she triumphed against comedian Brad Williams on the celebrity rap-battle show “Drop the Mic,” and subsequently, she began hosting “Blind Date” on Bravo.

In 2021, Nikki assumed the role of host on HBO Max’s reality dating series “FBOY Island,” as well as appearing in the Netflix series “History of Swear Words.” Furthermore, Glaser has contributed to various documentaries, such as “I Am Comic” (2010), “I Am Road Comic” (2014), “Funny Pains” (2017), and “Hysterical” (2021). In 2020, she participated in “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” and successfully garnered $125,000 for the charity Rescue the Birds.

Personal Life

Nikki quit alcohol on December 9, 2011, crediting Allen Carr’s self-help books as pivotal in her journey to stop drinking and smoking. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Glaser decided to move back in with her parents in St. Louis, expressing, “There’s something really about this time that makes you want to be with people you love and who love you unconditionally. And, for me, that’s just my parents.”