In Conversation with comedian Nikki Glaser
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In Conversation with comedian Nikki Glaser
On landing in St. Louis after bouncing between the coasts
I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri and since graduating college, I've lived back and forth between New York and LA. I've lived in each city twice. Started out in LA, went to New York, then went back to LA, then went back to New York, and just changed cities based on the jobs I got, or the friends I had, or just getting bored one place and going to the other. When the pandemic hit, I was in between apartments and starting over with furniture. I kind of got rid of everything that I had already; all my stuff was junk that I had acquired in my 20s. I wanted to start over and be more adult, and I got a really nice apartment in Manhattan. I signed a lease on March 1st, 2020. It was more money than I've ever spent on an apartment by like, four times. It was just insane. You know, an elevator opened up into my apartment. My front door was an elevator. It was just like, I had arrived, you know? And then I never even ended up moving in there or having any furniture. I had hired an interior designer and they were placing orders and getting ready to decorate. But the pandemic was kicking into gear and they were scared about things being delayed, so they never pulled the trigger on any of them, luckily, because I never ended up even living in my apartment in Manhattan. I decided to go wait in St. Louis at my parents’ house for a couple of weeks until this whole Coronavirus blew over, and then I ended up staying there and paying for 10 months of a lease on a place that I never even lived in.
On adults having roommates
I'm kind of trying to normalize people in their mid to late 30s going against what, you know, is expected for us, which is like, the only reason you should have a roommate is if you are married. I think so many people just get married, because they don't want to be lonely. Like, living alone is not always great! There's perks to it, but we're social creatures. And it's really fucked up that if you have a roommate as an adult, you're like a loser, when really, I think if you get married just because you don't want to be alone, you're the loser. And I think it's going to blow up in your face eventually. Whereas with a roommate, if you don't get along, you don't have to like file for divorce, you know, split custody of your couch. So I like to normalize adults having roommates, not for financial reasons, though obviously that's a big benefit of it, but just for social reasons. Especially after going through a pandemic, you want your home to not only be a place where you are like, living and existing solely because you can't go out in the world, but someplace that you can share with someone you're not necessarily having sex with. But let's be honest, most married people aren't having sex either. So I essentially am married. We sleep in separate bedrooms, we split the chores, and we buy each other groceries and sometimes we watch the same TV shows; we're essentially in a really good 20 year marriage.
Pictured here: Nomad Velvet Sofa
On her interior style & inspiration
I found Burrow on Instagram, the algorithm, like understanding my sensibilities based on things I like and the style that I was already interested in. You know, the the Instagram robot knows me well enough. I’m kind of minimalist in terms of like, I don’t want too many options. I want people to make choice for me so no matter what I choose, I’m going to make a good choice. I get overwhelmed a lot of times when there there's too many choices and I end up buying nothing, you know, but you guys just know what's cool. And it's like, “just trust us, like, we will do the choosing for you, you just have to figure out what kind of color you like.” It looked like stuff that was actually lived in, it looked like real spaces, and it looked like, you know, there was just something that I trusted about the Burrow aesthetic that was like, “oh, these are cool people, nice; cool people that know what's cool, and I'm just going to trust them and that if I can't go wrong, if I go with them.”
So often what happens is people say to me, “oh my God, you are so cool, where did you get that outfit?” And I'm always like, I don't know what's cool, but I know who is cool. And then I just trust them to tell me what's cool. And then I kind of build my style off of that.
On mixing her personal style with furniture staples
The velvet couch is so easy to clean. I got the green one because I have a messy roommate, and I just knew that he would stain anything lighter. It's a fun color to mess with in terms of adding accent colors, because it's a bright color in and of itself but it's not over the top. Then I really got to play with pillows and injecting little pieces of color and I loved that all of the furniture can go with everything else. You really can't go wrong.
The choices were made for me. And I really need that. And I think more people need that than they think. I think a lot of people get caught just scrolling, you know, we're all on these dating apps and you can always keep swiping, like when do you know it's good enough? How do you make a decision? I think that's what's made me so frozen in terms of deciding what aesthetic to go with, there’s just too many choices. Burrow has these staples that allow me to accent with art and accessories in ways that make these staples go in any direction you want. The shelf that I have, I put all the tchotchkes, the things that interest me, on it. So the shelf has this really modern, clean feel but then it shows my quirky, chaotic, messy, ADHD side, while also looking like oh, she's an adult with ADHD, it's all good. There's like a collage of, dare I say, crap on the shelves, but it's crap that means something to me. The shelf is a way to organize it so that it doesn't look like I'm a complete mess. It really makes me feel more secure, as an adult that could have friends over and not feel judged for my taste or décor.
On becoming a homebody
I travel a lot, but I’m just now becoming a homebody for the first time. It's the first time in my life that there isn't a comedy club on every corner that I can be working at constantly. That's kind of the reason I stayed in St. Louis. If I can work, I'm compelled to do it. So I had to go where there wasn't as much work for me to do every night. Now, I still don't cook, but when I order Postmates on the couch, I brush it off the couch, turn on my Roomba, and turn on the TV and it's the first time I've felt like an adult with their own space. I was always living out of a suitcase. I didn't really care what it looked like in my apartment. My apartments were always too small and shitty, so I'd always want to go to someone else's because my furniture was just such a hodgepodge of crap I'd collected along the way from move to move.
On the best takeout to eat on the couch
Thai. Yeah, it's my number one. It's just clean and not so greasy. I love it. There's a place right next to my apartment that's always like, “five minutes.” I'm like, “five minutes? Are you even cooking it?”