Nikki Glaser is the first to admit her Leonardo DiCapriojoke at the Golden Globes wasn’t her most inspired work but that didn’t stop him from responding in the most unexpected way.
To his credit, the 51-year-old actor, who is known more for his dating preferences than seemingly anything else, took the joke in stride and even sent Glaser a gift after she took aim at him. Her claim? That the most revealing interview DiCaprio has done was decades ago, where he admitted to loving pasta.
”Leo, I’m sorry I made that joke. It is cheap. I tried not to, but, like, we don’t know anything else about you, man. There’s nothing else. Open up! I’m serious! I looked! I searched!” she said during the live show.
The Golden Globes admission came about when Glaser was a guest on The Tonight Show on Tuesday, Apr. 21 where she opened up about her tour, hosting Saturday Night Liveand the feud between Alix Earl and Alex Cooper.
But when the chat with Jimmy Fallon turned to her recent Golden Globes hosting duties, Glaser shared DiCaprio’s surprising reaction to her joke about his penchance for dating much younger women.
Glaser told Fallon that she struggled to come up with a joke about the Oscar winner because she “just didn’t want to make the joke about how he has young girlfriends. It’s been done so many times. I mean, that jokes been going on longer than his current girlfriend’s been alive.”
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She went on to explain that there’s really nothing else to joke about because DiCaprio doesn’t reveal much about his personal life. So after digging, Glaser and her team came up with a Teen Beat interview from 1991 where DiCaprio admitted that he loves “pasta, pasta, and more pasta.”
Glaser’s pasta punchline landed well, with DiCaprio nodding in agreement that he did still enjoy pasta. And to prove that he was a good sport about it all, the One Battle After Another star sent her three baskets of pasta.
She called the move “so good” before joking, “And part of me was like, ‘Does Leo want to smash?” Then, Glaser quipped, “The type of girl he goes for he wouldn’t send pasta to.”