Good Clean Filth

Spitting out an Invisalign tray and pulling stray toilet paper off her shoe backstage, Nikki Glaser starts her hour trying to look like a mess. But once she takes the stage at Denver’s Paramount Theatre, her delivery is calculated and incredibly precise. Her material is graphic, clinical sex education, ranging from the anatomical difference between a vagina and a vulva to highly specific logistics of physical intimacy. She offers practical advice on preparing for anal sex, details her struggles with handjobs, and compares stray toilet paper left behind on a woman’s body to ‘hamster joints.’

Released on HBO in 2022, this hour caught Glaser at a high point in her television career, concurrently hosting the reality dating show FBOY Island and her own reality series. While some critics noted that her highly polished, clinical delivery was almost too sterile to match the dirty nature of her stories, the set is consistently punchy. She maintains a rapid, confident pace, relying on quiet, muttered tags to finish off her bits.