“I said, 'Move back to Indiana, bring the kids and just come back and live in Indiana,' but she won't do it.”
Nikki Glaser may be a famous comedian now, but it wasn't always that way.
In fact, her career in Hollywood started out with one fairly normal job: babysitting for Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann.
On a recent episode of The Howard Stern Show, Glaser reminisced about her early days in Hollywood, including babysitting young Maude and Iris Apatow.
“It’s such a special moment for me that I started out as [Apatow’s] babysitter,” Glaser said. “He was working on Funny People when I was babysitting for them.”
Stern then asked Glaser how much she was paid to babysit for them.
“Oh they paid well,” Glaser said in the interview. “This was 2007, I think it was like $35, $40 an hour? Which was, like, more than I’d ever been paid to babysit.”
In addition to the pay being good, Glaser also didn’t mind babysitting the girls because they were well behaved.
“His kids were so sweet, they were so funny,” she said.
Stern then brought up the news that Glaser and Apatow are currently working on a new project together.
Glaser clarified that she was already grateful for the fact that Apatow had let her audition for him back in the day and that she had a small role in his 2015 film Trainwreck. She didn’t expect him to be involved in her career at all.
“I would never have dared to ask him for anything again,” Glaser said. “I think he asked me if I wanted to come in and talk about any ideas. And so I went in and we were just talking like old friends.”
Out of their casual conversation, the idea for a new film soon began to form.
“I started opening up about things I was struggling with,” she explained. “Where I am in my life and not having kids and not having a family and pursuing a career. And not being married and wondering if I should, and I’m scared of commitment and scared of forever, and he got something out of me that we thought, ‘Okay, this could be a really fun idea for a movie.’”
“But he got it out of me, I didn’t come in with anything,” she clarified.
Stern then noted that based off of that description, it sounded like the film might have a more serious tone.
“No, it’s gonna be funny,” she clarified. “It can’t not be. But, you know, like all of his films, there’s going to be heart and there’s going to be real emotions, I hope, and come from a real place.”
