Nikki Glaser laughed off a live wardrobe malfunction on April 22, after Kelly Ripa told her during a Live with Kelly and Mark appearance that she was flashing her underwear. Glaser, wearing a baby blue sleeveless minidress adorned with rosettes on the skirt, did not miss a beat. Mark Consuelos shielded his eyes with a note card as the exchange turned into a quick comic riff.
Ripa cut in with, “So chic! I love this. Oh wait, you can see your underpants.” Glaser answered, “It's just for you,” then added, “sorry guys.” When Ripa said, “I don’t mind at all,” Glaser shot back, “I’ll send you a picture later.” It was the kind of live-TV stumble that might have thrown another guest off balance. For Glaser, it became another punch line.
The moment landed because Glaser was already in the middle of promoting her next project, the stand-up special Good Girl, which she said she filmed in St. Louis, Missouri. She told the show that many people from her life came out to watch at the Fabulous Fox Theatre, including “people from high school” and even her “self-tan lady from the strip mall.” She also joked that “It’s fine, I guess, that my childhood dentist knows about my sex life now. I guess that’s appropriate.”
That offhand joke fits the image Glaser has been building in recent interviews: blunt, unbothered and willing to turn personal material into the joke itself. On an April 8 episode of Call Her Daddy, she said, “In a relationship, I don't really care if my boyfriend were to hook up [with others],” while adding that “that is not a two-way street.” She also said, “I'm not someone who likes to hook up when I'm in a relationship.”
Glaser has been linked to producer Chris Convy since 2013, but she offered no new update about that relationship in the live appearance. What she did show, instead, was the same instinct that has helped make her a reliable stage and talk-show guest: if the moment gets awkward, she makes it part of the act. That is who Nikki Glaser is on live television, and the answer is plain enough. She is a comedian who can turn a wardrobe malfunction, and almost anything else, into material before the camera cuts away.