Aug. 13, 2026

DCN Live: Why Nikki Glaser chased Kim Kardashian, Letterman's Next Guest Jimmy Kimmel

Show Notes
Transcript

From lakeside update, Johnny Mac highlights Page Six reporting that Nikki Glaser fired UTA and signed with WME, allegedly influenced by her connection to Kim Kardashian, who is producing and co-starring with Glaser in the upcoming Netflix film The Fifth Wheel; Glaser praises Kardashian’s advice and says the cast stays in touch. The host notes David Letterman’s My Next Guest Needs No Introduction returning for season seven with guests Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, Jimmy Kimmel, and rock climber Alex Honnold. Jon Lovitz tells Fallon Adam Sandler casts him as a pervert because “I think it’s funny,” and praises Sandler’s kindness and dramatic work. Jay Leno backs “Leno’s Law 2.0” expanding smog exemptions for certain older cars and says on a podcast he avoids politics in comedy. The episode closes with a Threads post praising Apple TV for renewing quality shows and supporting creators.

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You know, it's funny and doing the show sometimes there's

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like nothing and that I do one more Google, I

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find three more things. So I got to the end

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of the prep today and I typed in Nikki Glazer,

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Jay Leno and Rogan and I went like three for three.

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But let's start with Nicki Glazer. We are at the

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lake this afternoon. We are not poolside. Page six dove

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in on Nicki Glazer firing Uta and going with WME.

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Apparently you know who's behind this, The Kardashians. That's right.

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Nikki appears with Kim Kardashian in the upcoming Netflix film

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The Fifth Wheel, so you know it's going to be good.

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In The Fifth Wheel, produced by Kim Kardashian, we follow

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a group of high school besties who attempt to reconnect

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during a weekend haunt to Las Vegas. Page six reports

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Kardashian is ripped by WMA and Niki was enamored with Kim.

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Nikki has previously said of Kim Kardashian and Nikki is

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a star hugger. Let's just be honest about it. She's

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a star hugger. Nicki said she was always someone I

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was like, I think I'd like to get to know her.

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She just gives great advice. She gave me some like

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insane life advice that literally changed my life. It was

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just a really hard decision I was making, and she

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just had a respect upon it that no one else

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could have offered me besides her. It helped me have

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the strength to do something I was scared to do.

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She's a really good friend. You know. You wrap these

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movies and you kind of go in separate directions, But

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me and the cast, we're all still chatting all the

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time and keeping up with each other anyway. Now, Nicki

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glazers with w ME. David Letterman coming back for another

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season of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction Season seven.

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The guests Matt Damon, Julia Roberts, Jimmy Kimmel, and alex Honold.

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I had to look up the last guy. Alexander j

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Honold is an American rock climber best known for his

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free solo A Sense of Big Wall Climbing. Roots. Can't

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say that that guest list excites me. But I haven't

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been into this incarnation of Letterman at all, I guess

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for purposes of this program. The Jimmy Kimmel episode will

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be quite notable, so we'll afford to that. John Lovetz

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was on with felon the topic Adam Sandler and I'm

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in Sandler mode today. If I got my Champion T

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shirt and my Matt's hat, we could be friends. Adam

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Lovettz asked Adam Sandler why Sandler always cast John Lovevitz

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as a pervert. Apparently Sandler's answer is, I think it's funny.

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Love It's said of Sandler, he's the best. You're nice

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to him once, and he's just nice to you for

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the rest of your life. Maybe I should be nice

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to the guy. The guy's a great, great dramatic actor.

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J Kelly's awesome on cut Gems is awesome, Space Movie's awesome.

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The comedies that so good. So Jay Leno I googled

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him and I was like, oh, look, they're working on

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Leno's Law two point zero. Senate Bill thirteen ninety two

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would extend smog exemptions to cars manufactured between nineteen seventy

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six and nineteen eighty six. Leno said, for most people,

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this is a second, third, or even fourth par that

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was their grandfathers or their dads, and they're trying to

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keep it exactly as it was. They're not making the

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car more dangerous. Under current laws, cars over thirty five

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years old may also be exempt from specific portions of

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the SMAG test as long as they're legally classified and

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insured as collector motor vehicles. Leto's Law two point zero

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would changed the law. You'd have to fulfill one of

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three categories. One a car at least thirty five years old,

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insured as a collector motorco vehicle and driven less than

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one one thousand miles a year. Two a historic vehicle,

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or three a specific interest vehicle. Leno was also on

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the Awards Chatter podcast talking about not doing politics in

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his act. He said, the trouble is the fun thing

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about politics is he exaggerated, that's the make laugh with Trump?

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All right, you sleeping on the strip or Stormy Daniels.

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Where do I go with that? I mean, where do

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you take it? That's the reality of it. Jay Leno added,

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when you don't like someone, it's harder to make fun

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of them. Send your letters to Jay Leno. I saw

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this on Threads. I like this a lot. You know how,

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like everything on Netflix gets like one season that's okay,

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and then if it comes back at all. The second

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season sucks and things get canceled. Guy named at Luke

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of Miami on threads posted Apple TV has maybe figured

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out the secret that no other streaming services figured out.

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The one factor it sets them apart from the rest

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really good content and not treating customers like garbage. Yeah,

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they pretty much threw a bunch of money, really competent

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directors and insanely thorough vetted screenplay, and so they am

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mastered a frankly and same list of banger programming. And

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then they get Maggie It. Even if basically nobody watched

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the show, they would renew it and give the show

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runner a chance to tell her full story. This is

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genius on several levels. One, the audience gets to see

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the full story play out. Two, the directors and screenwriters

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working with Apple TV. No, they have much greater support

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to tell their stories. And three actors are signed with

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Apple TV. No, they won't be something dropped on a

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dime tank. Of all the non flip shows that you

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started that just like either don't come back or come

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back like so long hey in the future, that you're like,

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I don't care anymore. And that happens a lot so

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a good note there from Luke Miami and that's it

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from the Lake back in the morning with a normal

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audio episode see then