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Nikki Glaser compares a live performance by Taylor Swift to cocaine use

Nikki Glaser compares a live performance by Taylor Swift to cocaine use

Nikki Glaser is perhaps the biggest Swiftie there is.

The comedian has seen Taylor Swift’s record-breaking Eras Tour 17 times (and counting!), which equates to about 60 hours of watching Swift live. “It gives me a dopamine rush that I can’t describe,” she told guest host Kumail Nanjiani on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “So my only choice is between drug use and cocaine. Fortunately, I can afford both.”

Nikki Glaser; Taylor Swift.

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Glaser explained that she uses every break in her own touring schedule as a stand-up comedian to fly to Swift’s performance and watch the show. She also explained that she never goes to the bathroom during the nearly four-hour show. “I’m wearing a diaper,” she joked, though it was unclear whether she was joking or not.

For Glaser, seeing Swift live is like seeing the Beatles live in the 1960s. “I just feel like now is the time to see someone who is one of the greatest artists who ever lived,” she explained. “For me, it’s like the Beatles, and I think one day I’ll be a person that everyone will say, ‘Have you seen the Beatles live?’ That’s the thing that makes me the happiest in the world.”

She’s aware that comparisons to the Beatles might raise eyebrows. Her comments angered her father, who is a huge fan of the Fab Four. But Glaser also shared a video of her father at one of Swift’s concerts, crying with emotion over Swift’s performance.

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Glaser also knows that it is a privilege for her to watch the show so often. She has received a lot of snarky comments about it on social media. “Must be nice!” is a comment she gets regularly, to which she replies, “Yes, it is.”

Although Glaser is a huge fan of Swift, she has never met him, so maybe it’s time for her to change the prophecy and take on the issue.

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