Questions about Nikki Glaser get asked because she’s built a career on answering them before anyone asks. Born Nicole Rene Glaser on June 1, 1984, she turned blunt talk about relationships, drinking, and body image into a run of stand-up specials, television series, and hosting gigs.
Born: June 1, 1984 ·
Age: 40 (as of 2024) ·
Occupation: Comedian, actress, writer, producer ·
TV specials: 5 ·
Instagram: 3M+ followers
Quick snapshot
- Quit drinking at age 27 (NPR interview transcript)
- Studied English at the University of Kansas, reached the Last Comic Standing semifinals, and co-hosted the You Had To Be There podcast with Sara Schaefer (Apple TV biography)
- Whether she and Chris Convy are still together as of 2024 (Town & Country profile)
- Exact net worth — estimates circulate, with no primary source confirming a figure (Celebrity Net Worth)
- A precise sobriety date — secondary bios list one; primary sources don’t confirm it (Celebrity Net Worth)
- Quit drinking more than four years before her 2016 Comedy Central run (Maxim 2016 interview)
- Born in Cincinnati; grew up in the St. Louis area (Celebrity Net Worth profile)
- 2013: met Chris Convy while he produced Nikki & Sara Live! (Town & Country profile)
- More platform specials if the hosting and press momentum continues
- A public relationship update after a decade of on-and-off coverage
- A confirmed sobriety-anniversary or net-worth statement would be new ground
Six details, one pattern: the biographical facts hold up across sources, while anything financial or romantic gets vaguer the closer you look.
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Full name | Nicole Rene Glaser |
| Birthdate | June 1, 1984 (Nikki Glaser official site) |
| Birthplace | Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
| Occupation | Comedian, actress, writer, producer |
| Sobriety | Quit drinking at age 27 — as documented in the snapshot above |
| Relationship | On-and-off with Chris Convy since meeting on the MTV set in 2013 — Town & Country profile cited in the snapshot |
Does Nikki Glaser have a partner?
The short answer is yes and no — and that on-again, off-again loop is exactly why the question keeps getting asked.
Are Nikki Glaser and Chris still together?
- Town & Country describes Glaser and Chris Convy as an on-and-off couple whose connection goes back more than a decade (Town & Country profile)
- As of 2024, neither has publicly confirmed whether they’re dating, separated, or somewhere in between
That on-and-off framing is the most precise thing either of them has ever said about the relationship. There’s no official statement, no anniversary post, and no breakup announcement to anchor a timeline.
The couple has been together and apart repeatedly, which makes every new sighting feel like a reset — and that cycle is the story.
After ten years of on-and-off coverage, the only confirmed fact is that the relationship exists — not its current temperature.
What this means: the most searched question about Glaser’s love life has the least documented answer, which is almost certainly how she wants it.
Does Nikki Glaser have an open relationship?
- Glaser has publicly connected sobriety with changes in how she experiences sex, dating, and intimacy (Maxim 2016 interview)
- Her NPR interview, quoted below, describes alcohol as a factor in many of her early intimate experiences
The open-relationship question follows from her material, not from a personal announcement. Glaser’s specials treat monogamy, desire, and honesty as open questions rather than settled answers — and audiences naturally assume the jokes are code for something specific.
The available interviews point to a simpler read: she’s genuinely interested in the tension between what people want and what they’re supposed to want. That tension is her real topic, whether the relationship is open, closed, or just complicated.
The pattern: the jokes are a way to explore the question without confirming anything — and after a decade, that non-answer is itself an answer.
Who has Nikki Glaser dated?
- The documented record contains one serious public relationship: Chris Convy
- No other partners appear in the interviews, biographies, or filmographies reviewed here
Search results sometimes add names, but none of the sources used in this profile supports a longer list. For a comedian who shares so much, that’s a deliberate boundary — and respecting the difference between what’s documented and what’s repeated is the whole job here.
Why is Nikki Glaser so famous?
The short version: she got famous by being funny about the things people usually hide, and she stayed famous by doing it on every platform available.
What are Nikki Glaser’s biggest comedy specials?
- Not Safe with Nikki Glaser premiered on Comedy Central in 2016 (Apple TV biography)
- Perfect, her other 2016 special, is dated in the timeline below
Two Comedy Central projects in one year is the kind of acceleration that separates a working comedian from a brand. Glaser’s specials lean into discomfort — body image, sex, sobriety, and the gap between what she expected from adulthood and what it delivered.
She’s now at five television specials, and the most recent wave of attention has come from hosting. The specials still function as the proof of concept: they’re the reason anyone offered her a show in the first place.
How much money does Nikki Glaser make?
- Celebrity Net Worth, a celebrity-finance tracker, publishes estimates for Glaser (Celebrity Net Worth profile)
- No tax filing, official statement, or verified financial record reviewed here confirms a figure
The absence of a number is telling. Glaser is unusually open about sobriety and relationships, but money stays off the material — no net-worth jokes, no booking-fee punchlines, nothing that would let a figure enter the public record through her own mouth.
The practical takeaway: treat any net-worth number as a headline, not a fact. Celebrity trackers aggregate and estimate; they don’t audit.
The next reliable data point won’t be a tracker estimate — it’ll be a reported deal for her next special or series, and even that will be a media number, not a contract.
What movies and TV shows has she appeared in?
- Trainwreck (2015) and I Feel Pretty (2018) — cited in the confirmed-facts section below
- Her hosting credits — Blind Date and FBoy Island — are covered in the timeline below
Movies raised her profile, but hosting made her dependable. Blind Date and FBoy Island gave her a format that fits her strengths: quick judgment, playful confrontation, and a willingness to say the quiet part out loud.
Why this matters: the films get the headlines, but the specials are the spine of the career — and the hosting runs are proof that networks trust her to hold a show together.
Glaser’s rise from stand-up to hosting shows that unflinching material builds a longer career than a polished image.
Does Nikki Glaser have kids?
No credible report reviewed for this profile indicates that Glaser has children — and unlike sobriety, it’s not a subject she has turned into a public story.
Does Nikki Glaser have a twin sister?
- No public source reviewed here documents a twin sister
- The recurring search question doesn’t appear in her official bio or in any interview cited in this profile
The twin question is a useful case study in how search-driven rumors form. A question becomes popular, gets asked again, and starts to look like a story — even when the underlying record is empty. None of the reviewed sources mentions a sister at all.
Absence of evidence isn’t proof in a court of law, but in a biography, a fact repeated by no one is usually just noise.
What this means: the autocomplete is not a source.
Does Nikki Glaser have a family?
- Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in the St. Louis area — documented in the snapshot above
- No interview or biography reviewed here details her parents or siblings by name
Family is the one area where Glaser’s openness hits a wall. She’ll discuss her own body, dating history, and drinking habits at length, but her parents and childhood stay off-stage. The biographical record stops at the few details she has chosen to share.
The trade-off: the search questions about twins and kids are louder than the documented record, so the honest answer is the short one — no kids, no twin, no public family drama.
Is Nikki Glaser still sober?
The consistent picture from interviews is that Glaser quit drinking in her late 20s and has stayed sober since.
- She said in an NPR interview that she stopped drinking at age 27 (as documented in the snapshot above)
- Four years before her 2016 Maxim interview, she said she wasn’t drinking — placing sobriety around 2011–2012 (Maxim 2016 interview)
- Some secondary biographies give December 9, 2011, as a sobriety date, but the official site and NPR transcript don’t corroborate it (Celebrity Net Worth profile)
That mismatch matters. A precise anniversary date is easier to repeat than “around 27,” which is why the December date keeps appearing on celebrity-tracker sites. The primary record — her own interviews — leaves the month and day open.
Glaser has tied the change to her personal life more than once. The same interview cycle that documented her sobriety also documented how it reshaped intimacy and dating, with fewer intoxicated moments and a clearer sense of what she wanted.
The reliable anchor for her sobriety isn’t a calendar date — it’s her own interviews. Any profile that states December 9, 2011, is quoting a secondary source, not her.
The trade-off: she controls the sobriety narrative because she told it first — but the gaps she leaves open get filled by secondary sources, whether she likes it or not.
Is Nikki Glaser married and how old is she?
Not married, according to every public record reviewed here — and 40 years old as of 2024.
How old is Nikki Glaser?
- Born June 1, 1984, per her official bio (Nikki Glaser official site)
- That makes her 40 as of 2024
Age is one of the few details that’s consistent across every source checked — the official bio and celebrity trackers agree, which is rarer than it looks for someone who’s been in the public eye for more than a decade.
Is Nikki Glaser married?
- No public record of a husband or a marriage certificate appears in any source reviewed here
- Her decade-long relationship with Chris Convy has produced no engagement or wedding announcement
The marriage question is the one Glaser’s comedy circles without ever landing. She jokes about the pressure to settle down, the expectations around weddings, and the timeline everyone else seems to be following — then keeps her actual status private.
The catch: she’ll hand over her birthday without a second thought, but the marriage question gets a punchline instead of a press release.
Timeline signal: key milestones
Three milestones, one pattern: the real acceleration came after she quit drinking, not before it.
| Year | Milestone | Documented by |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Nikki & Sara Live! premieres on MTV and runs two seasons | Apple TV biography |
| April 9, 2016 | Perfect airs on Comedy Central | Wikipedia filmography |
| 2019–2023 | Hosts Blind Date on Bravo, then FBoy Island | Wikipedia filmography |
The implication: Glaser’s timeline is a compounding-career story — each platform run made the next one bigger, from MTV to Comedy Central to a string of reality-hosting credits.
Confirmed facts and open questions
Put the two lists next to each other and the shape of the research problem becomes clear.
Confirmed facts
- Quit drinking at age 27 (as documented in the snapshot above)
- Appeared in Trainwreck (2015) and I Feel Pretty (2018) (Wikipedia filmography)
- On-and-off relationship with Chris Convy for more than a decade (as documented in the snapshot above)
What’s unclear
- Exact sobriety date — December 9, 2011 appears in secondary biographies only
- Net worth — estimates only, with no primary source
- Current relationship status as of 2024
- Twin sister question — no public evidence
- Names or details of parents and siblings — not covered in reviewed sources
The takeaway: the confirmed list is short but solid; the unclear list is where the entertainment value — and most of the search traffic — actually lives.
Key statements from Glaser and the press
Alcohol was part of why so many of her early intimate experiences happened while she was intoxicated — and quitting at 27 changed the way she approached dating from that point forward.
Nikki Glaser, in an interview with NPR
Four years after she quit, she tied sobriety directly to a different experience of sex, dating, and intimacy.
Nikki Glaser, in Maxim’s 2016 interview
Glaser and Convy have been together and apart repeatedly for more than a decade, a connection that began when Convy produced her MTV series.
Town & Country, on Glaser’s relationship with Chris Convy
The through-line: whether the words come from NPR or Maxim, Glaser frames sobriety as the dividing line in her personal life — the before and after that explains the rest of her material.
Where the story stands
The consistent thread in every sourced account is that Glaser’s candor is the product — she talks about sobriety, intimacy, and expectations with a directness that most celebrities save for memoirs. The gaps in the record are just as meaningful: no verified net worth, no marriage, no children, no status update on Convy. For streaming platforms and booking agents deciding where she appears next, the choice is clear: keep betting on the comedian who turns her own mess into material, or keep packaging a polished celebrity story that she’s spent two decades refusing to perform.
Frequently asked questions
What is Nikki Glaser’s birth name?
Nicole Rene Glaser. The full name and birth date, June 1, 1984, appear in the key facts table at the top of this profile.
Does Nikki Glaser have a Netflix special?
No. The filmography reviewed here shows Comedy Central specials — Perfect (2016) and Not Safe with Nikki Glaser (2016) — plus an MTV series, but no Netflix special.
What movies has Nikki Glaser appeared in?
Trainwreck (2015) and I Feel Pretty (2018), both cited in the confirmed-facts section above.
How many stand-up specials does Nikki Glaser have?
Five television stand-up specials, per the count in the stats line at the top of this profile.
Is Nikki Glaser active on social media?
Yes. Her Instagram following exceeds 3 million, per the metrics in the stats line above.
The takeaway: these quick answers cover the most common queries, but the deeper questions about relationships and money remain open.
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James Mitchell is Editor-in-Chief at Aussie Insightly, overseeing editorial standards, publication decisions and corrections.