Nikki Glaser attended an astonishing number of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour shows

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When comedian Nikki Glaser has a day off from her own tour, she flies somewhere to join Taylor Swift on stage at the Epoch Tour.

“I had a break from touring and met Taylor Swift. That’s what I do in my free time. I followed Taylor around Europe,” Glaser said in an episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live where fellow comedian Kumail Nanjiani represented the presenter.

“Europe just happened to be there when she was there,” joked Glaser, who Eras Shows in 10 days on the other side of the pond.

“When I have weekends off from my own tour, I fly to see her,” Glaser explained, comparing himself to “a divorced father doing his best to see his daughter.”

Glaser is – like countless Swifties around the world – “addicted” to the Epoch Tourshe revealed, adding that she gets a “dopamine rush that she can’t describe” during the shows.

In fact, Glaser played “17 shows in 15 months” – and, as Nanjiani said, didn’t take a single bathroom break at any of the concerts. (Swift, as fans know, plays for about 3.5 hours each night with a setlist of 46 songs.)

“For me, that’s all I have left or cocaine. Luckily, I can afford both,” joked Glaser.

While she initially said Swift had “no idea who I am,” Glaser quickly acknowledged that the 14-time Grammy winner may have heard of her before. (Glaser’s career went viral earlier this year after she made much-discussed jokes at Tom Brady’s Netflix roast.)

“I know it’s exaggerated, and I just don’t know how to explain it other than that when the tour was announced, I felt like I wanted to go to every show,” she said.

Glaser noted that she spent 60 hours of Epoch Tour — and she’s not finished yet. “I’m going to do more,” she told Nanjiani.