Who Is Nikki Glaser at Rob Lowe’s Roast?

This much was made evident after Jimmy Carr, Ann Coulter, Pete Davidson, Nikki Glaser, Jewel, Ralph Macchio, Peyton Manning, Rob Riggle and Jeff Ross gathered to Roast the star on Comedy Central.

Some of it was juvenile, like Papa John’s water-boy Peyton Manning’s comparison of her to a horse: “I’m not the only athlete up here tonight – as you all know earlier this year, Ann Coulter won the Kentucky Derby”. The roasters had no love for inflammatory conservative commentator Ann Coulter, who was there to roast Rob Lowe but ended up becoming the target of the roast herself.

“She does not understand humor or joy”, Lawrence said Tuesday morning during a Facebook Live chat. To recite the jokes, Lawrence chose to use a hand puppet named “Coultergeist”, just to further the illusion that Coulter herself was in the room. There are other places to do soft jokes. “I started making Ann Coulter jokes”.

Comedy Central roasts are machines created to dole out pellets of delicious outrage to viewers and online pontificators.

As a feminist, I can’t support everything that’s being said up here tonight.

Davidson went for a seasonal ribbing, asking the requisite harvest question: “Ann Coulter, if you’re here who’s scaring the crows away from our crops?” “And before you ask, Jeff, I wouldn’t f- you with Hillary Clinton’s d-“. But if you’re on a Comedy Central roast, you better bring your A-game. That’s a Trevor Noah joke, the one immigrant I’m most excited to see deported. (The number of times she stutters or steps over her own punchline is fascinating.) She makes a joke about David Spade that is nearly clever in premise if it didn’t rely on a racial slur interpretation of the comedian’s last name, or reinforce the divisiveness of the presidential candidate about whom she just wrote a book.

Mr. Lawrence played a few jokes from Ms. Coulter’s set – including a dud involving a play on comedian David Spade’s last name with a racist slur for blacks – before reading some of the jokes the network’s writers had written for her. Am I white, people?