Nikki Glaser Blasts CBS News While Hosting the 2026 Golden Globes on CBS: 'Newest Place to See BS News'
- - Nikki Glaser Blasts CBS News While Hosting the 2026 Golden Globes on CBS: 'Newest Place to See BS News'
Tommy McArdleJanuary 12, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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Nikki Glaser hosting the 2026 Golden Globes on Jan. 11. -
Nikki Glaser took aim at CBS News in her monologue at the 2026 Golden Globe Awards, which was broadcast on CBS
"CBS News, America's newest place to see BS news," Glaser said in her monologue
Glaser returned to host the 83rd annual Golden Globes for the second consecutive year
Nikki Glaser brought a biting joke straight to CBS, the network that is broadcasting the 2026 Golden Globe Awards, when she returned to host the awards ceremony for the second year in a row.
On Sunday, Jan. 11, Glaser, 41, took the stage at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles to kick off the 83rd annual Golden Globes ceremony. In her opening monologue, Glaser called out the Trump administration for its redactions of the Epstein files in recent weeks. She also took aim at controversial editorial changes at CBS News that have sparked internal debate at the national news outlet.
"I cannot believe the amount of star power we have in this room tonight. It's insane," Glaser said. "There are so many A-listers, and by A-list I do mean a list that has been heavily redacted. And the Golden Globe for Best Editing goes to the Justice Department. Yes. Congratulations."
"And the award for most editing goes to CBS News," she added, to significant laughter and applause from the audience. "Yes, CBS News, America's newest place to see BS news. We needed another."
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Nikki Glaser at the Golden Globe Awards on Jan. 11, 2026
Glaser's jokes about CBS News come just under one week after anchor Tony Dokoupil began hosting CBS Evening News and weeks after the outlet abruptly pulled a planned 60 Minutes segment that focused on Venezuelan men who were deported by the Trump administration to a notorious El Salvador prison.
Dokoupil is the sixth anchor of the broadcast in the last decade, with his new gig coming amid several changes at CBS News following Skydance’s $8 billion acquisition of Paramount, CBS's parent company. The merger also came after CBS News settled a lawsuit with President Donald Trump.
In October, Bari Weiss, best known for running the opinion website The Free Press, was named editor in chief of CBS News, despite not having experience running a news organization the size of CBS.
The comedian also took some time during her monologue to roast celebrity attendees, including Leonardo DiCaprio. Glaser joked that the actor is nominated for "one man bun after another" instead of his movie One Battle After Another, and that he has "won three Golden Globes, an Oscar and the most impressive thing is you were able to accomplish all of that before your girlfriend turned 30." (DiCaprio, 51, is currently dating Italian model Vittoria Ceretti, 27.)
Glaser made her debut hosting the Globes in 2025, which she described as “without a doubt the most fun I have ever had in my career" when she announced she would return for a second go-around at the gig.
"There's lots to joke about this year — and the star power in the room is going to be bigger than ever," she told PEOPLE on Jan. 2, while speaking to her plans for hosting this year's awards ceremony. "I mean, it's bigger than last year," she said. "I kind of have to keep wrapping my head around the kind of people that are going to be present in this room."
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Nikki Glaser on Jan. 11, 2026
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See PEOPLE's coverage of the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards, taking place at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles on Sunday, Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. EST, airing on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
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