The Hollywood Reporter raved that she “truly appeared like she was having fun with the chance,” and the New York Occasions praised her for a “stellar monologue” and kicking off the night time with a “celebratory, enjoyable tone” that hasn’t all the time been the case for Golden Globes hosts of previous.
Nevertheless it seems considered one of Nikki’s greatest jokes was by no means presupposed to be included, and he or she determined in actual time to inform it with out notifying anybody.
Whereas on stage ending up her monologue, Nikki stated she observed that what was presupposed to be her final joke, which was about why the gang did not know they have been making historical past, wasn’t working as an endpiece. “It appeared high quality on TV. It simply, within the room, it did not really feel like a closing bit,” she stated. “It did not have the ability and the laughter on the finish that I felt like I need to depart on that observe.”
So Nikki unexpectedly instructed a joke about tequila manufacturers that she’d workshopped beforehand however in the end lower from the monologue: “Earlier than we begin handing out awards, I do need to remind you when you do lose tonight, please simply needless to say the purpose of creating artwork is to not win an award. The purpose of creating artwork is to begin a tequila model so standard that you just by no means should make artwork once more.”
“The final joke…I look again at it now. This was insane that I did it. I did it from reminiscence, and it was a joke I used to flub on a regular basis telling,” she instructed Stern. “There was no security web, and it is my final joke. In the event you fail in your final joke and fuck up the wording, then you definately failed. It is all the pieces.”
Whereas reciting her final joke, Nikki famous she needed to suppose forward about what she wanted to say subsequent so she did not mess it up because it wasn’t within the teleprompter. “That was wild. I can not imagine I did that,” she stated. Good factor she did, as a result of the joke was successful and acquired applause as Nikki ended her monologue.