During an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Nikki Glaser revealed that Leonardo DiCaprio sent her three baskets of pasta as a thank-you gesture after the 2026 Golden Globe Awards. DiCaprio attended the ceremony as a nominee for “One Battle After Another,” while Glaser hosted, with this being her second consecutive year on the job. She drew laughs during the ceremony for a monologue that included pointed jokes about DiCaprio’s dating history.
Glaser told Fallon that she follows a personal ritual after every roast or awards show she hosts: sending flowers to everyone she poked fun at, as a token of appreciation for being a good sport. “After I do it, I always send flowers to everyone that I made fun of that was a good sport about it, which was everyone, just to say thank you, because it is a part of why I’m successful at it,” she said.
“The only person who sent something back to me was Leonardo DiCaprio.”
She wasn’t shy about admitting that part of her interpreted the gesture as a possible sign of romantic interest. “He sent me three baskets of pasta as a ‘thank you,'” she added. “So funny. So good. And part of me was like, ‘Does Leo want to smash?'”
Glaser then riffed on why the gift was unlikely to signal any real romantic overture, joking that pasta was not exactly the calling card of DiCaprio’s typical love interest. The pasta gift was a callback to her Golden Globes monologue, in which she cited a 1991 Teen Beat magazine interview where a teenage DiCaprio listed his favorite food as “pasta, pasta and more pasta.” She quipped that Spaghetti-Os or a crib full of Dunkaroos and Go-Gurt might have been a more on-brand flirtation given DiCaprio’s reputation for dating younger women — before adding, laughing, “I can’t stop.”
Fallon used the appearance to announce that Glaser is set to host the Golden Globes for a third consecutive year. Glaser, who has released four television stand-up specials to date, also reflected on the high-wire act of crafting jokes for a room full of celebrities. She said the material lives and dies on whether the stars in the room are willing to laugh at themselves.
“You know, so much of it, I have to say, depends on the crowd. Like, the celebrities being able to laugh at themselves. And I work really hard to make sure the jokes are good and the audience at home, like, likes how far I’m going, but that I don’t go too far. I don’t ruin anyone’s night,” she said.
Glaser continued: “But there [are] some jokes that you just don’t know until you tell them, like, how they’re gonna land. The whole night is based off, if you tell a joke, it could be a great joke, but if the reaction shot is if they’re just like, ‘Huh?’, then the headlines are, ‘Nikki went too far.'”
Glaser, who was included in Time magazine’s 2026 list of the most influential people in the world, circled back to her DiCaprio material, explaining the creative challenge of making the bit feel fresh. “I just don’t want to make the joke about how he has young girlfriends,” she told Fallon. “That joke’s been going on longer than (…) his current girlfriend’s been alive.”