Nikki Glaser roasts her 'discount hot' boyfriend in fiery SNL debut — meet the man behind the punchlines
ETimes November 10, 2025 04:39 AM
When Nikki Glaser walked onto the Saturday Night Live stage for the first time on November 8, she didn’t waste a second easing in. Her opening monologue was a roast in motionm part self-deprecation, part social commentary, and part a roast of her favorite person- her boyfriend.
he comedian, who made history as the first woman to solo host the Golden Globes last year, hit Studio 8H with her signature fearlessness, tossing out jokes about healthcare, rape, race, Jeffrey Epstein, and, inevitably, her short boyfriend.
“I do date a short guy,” she told the audience. “He is shorter than me. But he’s like really hot. And honestly I think that’s why I got him. Because I could never get his face on a taller model. Like if you want 10 in face you got to go 5'7" in the height. It is like getting a hot guy in discount. He’s marked down. I met my boyfriend at TJ Maxx. Clearance mall. He was hidin in it.”
Talking about personal relationship s is kind of MO for comedians. And Nikki is not new to the game, she has on multiple occasions talked about her relationship with Chris Convy for a good laugh.
The jokes are all fair game between them. “My boyfriend's so cool,” she said in an earlier interview at the American Music Awards to the PEOPLE. “He's given me permission. He said, ‘You can talk about anything on stage about me as long as it's funny. The second it isn’t, if it bombs, then we have an issue. If you're just venting up there just to get it off your chest and embarrass me, not good, but if you're up there and you're making a solid joke, you can do whatever you want.’”
That sort of openness defines Nikki Glaser's more than a decade long relationship with Chris Convey.
How they met
Many first learned about Convy during The Roast of Tom Brady in 2024, a night that not only cemented Glaser’s status as one of comedy ’s fiercest voices but also gave audiences a glimpse into her love life. “I just want to say, for the record, I do have a boyfriend, we’ve been together for 10 years, he’s the love of my life, he’s here tonight, he’s sitting right over there,” she said, pointing to Convy in the audience.
Convy, a St. Louis native like Glaser, has worked as a producer on several award shows and TV specials, including The Little Mermaid Live (2019), The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (2020), and Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration (2022). He also produced Glaser’s early MTV series Nikki & Sara Live in 2013, where the two first met. “It was my first TV show, and he was a producer on the show, and he was from St. Louis, where I was from,” she recalled in an interview on In Depth With Graham Bensinger.
At first, she didn’t think much of him. “He was dancing, and he was just, like, too fun and smiley,” she told Bensinger. “I was like, ‘That guy’s wasted because how could you be that way?’ So, I just wrote him off, like, ‘No, not for me.’” But she soon learned he was sober, like her, and her impression flipped. “I just had a crush from afar for a really long time, which was so fun because I was just, like, pining for him constantly,” she said. “It was very Jim and Pam [from The Office]. I was Jim, and he had no idea. He was my first real boyfriend.”
On-and-off love
Their chemistry has fueled both creative collaborations and years of turbulence. Glaser has said they’ve broken up “probably five times in 10 years.” In a 2024 appearance on The Howard Stern Show, she admitted, “I think the off-and-on is [because] I’m just terrified of committing to anything forever. I think committing to something forever makes me think of no other adventures. It’s just kind of admitting defeat. It’s settling.”
The breaks have ranged from days to years. “Our breaks have gone from maybe two days to one was three years long,” she recalled. “He’s broken up with me. In the beginning of our relationship, I think I wanted a boyfriend so badly, I really misrepresented who I was. I thought getting a boyfriend meant being agreeable and just doing everything, never fighting, [and] never saying, ‘I don’t like what you just said,’ because then he’d be like, ‘Well, that’s the way I am, bye.’”
Today, they seem to have found balance, or at least a mutual understanding built on respect, humor, and the kind of self-awareness that only a comedian could sustain. He produces her specials; she roasts him on national TV.
