‘Liking This Lady Is a A part of My Identification Now’: Comic Nikki Glaser on Attending 22 Taylor Swift Eras Live shows

Do you’re feeling seen by these themes?

I at all times felt that Taylor was at all times in temper performing. In fact, she will’t at all times be, however she by no means lets it present in her performances. It’s most likely due to her performances that she is completely satisfied once more. I at all times felt a little bit disconnected along with her as a result of once I’m depressed, I’ve to faux it a little bit bit. And I felt like, why can’t my artwork take me out of my life the best way it does with Taylor Swift?

However then “I Can Do It With a Damaged Coronary heart” got here out, and I’m like, oh, she has to faux it generally, too. These songs have actually touched me. I really feel like everybody has that sort of join with Taylor Swift, the place she’s been by means of one thing particular that they’ve additionally been by means of, and that simply occurs to be the one for me.

Do you’ve got a favourite period?

I’m at all times within the period that she’s in. The Tortured Poets Division actually helped me get by means of getting ready for The Roast of Tom Brady, once I was actually feeling remoted and alone and not sure of myself and, actually, all I used to be doing was desirous about roast jokes. It was the best present as a result of it was a distraction. It jogged my memory that I care about different issues and that my life is full it doesn’t matter what occurs with this roast. It actually held my hand by means of that actually anxious time in my life. After which, even after the roast, despite the fact that it went the best way I needed it to, that was actually a tumultuous time for me, simply dealing with that stage of consideration and feeling like I can’t reside as much as it now. And I simply felt like I turned to that album a lot.

You wrote and carried out a single for the credit of your second HBO particular, Sometime You’ll Die. Did Taylor affect your individual sound?

With out query, I believe once I first began stand-up, I sounded precisely like my favourite stand-up, who was Sarah Silverman. I used to be obsessive about Sarah Silverman in a manner that I’m with Taylor Swift proper now. So once I wrote my first jokes, it was like, what would Sarah Silverman write?