How Nikki Glaser Went Full Pop Star for Elevated ‘Good Girl’ Hulu Special

When it comes to standup comedy specials, the production has long been simple: Place a comic on stage, set up a few cameras and capture the set. But with the new Hulu special “Good Girl,” Nikki Glaser’s team pushed beyond that traditional framework, elevating the genre to match the comic and Golden Globes host’s rising star power.

The shift didn’t happen overnight. Glaser first partnered with production company Done+Dusted on her HBO special “Someday You’ll Die,” a collaboration that executive producer and company partner David Jammy describes as a turning point.

“That was her coming out,” Jammy told TheWrap. “It was her saying, ‘Hey, I’m really good and I’m a star.’”

With “Good Girl,” the team leaned fully into that momentum, following her back-to-back hosting gigs at the Golden Globes, among other hosting opportunities. The Done+Dusted team pondered how they could expand the genre. 

“On paper, producing a standup special is very simple,” Jammy explained. “But we said, what if we approached it like a pop star concert? What if we treated it as storytelling — both in the material and in how it’s presented visually?”

For Glaser, that reframing was transformative...

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