Nikki Glaser Shares How Much Judd Apatow Paid Her for Babysitting in 2007
Nikki Glaser is sharing the scoop on her experience babysitting Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann’s children following his revelation at the 2026 Golden Globes.
On Tuesday, January 13, Glaser, 41, expressed her excitement to Howard Stern about Apatow, 58, mentioning during the Globes on January 11 that she had once been his daughters’ babysitter.
“It’s a memorable moment for me to have been his babysitter,” Glaser, who hosted the awards show, shared on that day’s episode of SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show.
She recalled that during her time working for him while he was making Funny People, both he and his wife Mann, 53, “paid well” for her to look after their daughters, Maude, now 28, and Iris, now 23.
“This was around 2007, and I think it was about $35 or $40 an hour,” Glaser revealed. “That was more than I’d ever been paid to babysit.”
She mentioned that the job was an easy one because the girls were “so sweet” and “so funny,” just like their parents.
One of Glaser’s fondest memories came about unexpectedly when Adam Sandler called the house one evening.
“He was like, ‘Hello.’ I replied, ‘Hi.’ And he said, ‘Hello, Maude, this is Adam.’ I panicked and said, ‘Oh no, this is the babysitter,’” Glaser recalled.
She shared that Sandler, 59, seamlessly asked how her “night was going,” a moment that remains memorable for her.
“That was my first encounter with Adam Sandler, and I’ve admired him ever since,” Glaser said. “That was the nicest call I received while babysitting.”
Her babysitting link to Apatow was just one of the many entertaining stories fans got to enjoy during Sunday’s Golden Globes.
The host kicked off the show with a funny monologue, asking George Clooney for tips on fixing her Nespresso machine and poking fun at Leonardo DiCaprio about his love life.
“Leonardo DiCaprio is here for One Man Bun After Another,” Glaser joked about DiCaprio’s Golden Globes nominated film One Battle After Another. “How incredible was Leo in One Battle After Another? Insane, so good. What a remarkable career you’ve had, with countless iconic performances, collaborations with every great director, three Golden Globes, an Oscar — and you achieved all that before your girlfriend turned 30. Crazy, right?”
DiCaprio, 51, took the jest in stride, given his current relationship with model Vittoria Ceretti, who is 24 years his junior.
“Leo, I apologize for that joke; it was cheap,” Glaser said during the show. “I tried to refrain, but we don’t know much else about you. There’s nothing else to discuss, like, open up. The most thorough interview you ever gave was in Teen Beat magazine back in 1991. Is your favorite food still ‘pasta and more pasta?’ True story.”
DiCaprio nodded in agreement before Glaser shifted her attention to Michael B. Jordan and her amusing thoughts while watching him in the 2025 film Sinners.
Glaser comically stated that she “couldn’t believe” she had the chance to see Jordan, 38, portray two brothers in the movie, expressing, “When I saw that, I was like, ‘Nikki-be-jerkin’ because that was fantastic.”
She laughed again before offering an apology. “I’m sorry, Michael. Why did I make that joke? [You’re here with] your mom. That shouldn’t have been mentioned to you,” Glaser continued. “That should have gone in a DM. My bad. You’re wonderful.”
While Glaser delivered plenty of laughs throughout the broadcast, she later disclosed that she had cut some jokes, including one about Sydney Sweeney in Christy.
“People just aren’t flocking to theaters and if you don’t believe me: There was a film this year where Sydney Sweeney played a lesbian who just ran around in tiny shorts for two hours, and it made $14,” Glaser shared with Stern about her unused joke regarding the Christy Martin biopic that grossed $1.3 million in its opening weekend.
Glaser explained on the radio show that she decided to omit the joke because “the audience just didn’t respond well.”
“It simply didn’t land as well as my other material,” she added. “Plus, [Sweeney] wasn’t even there, and it’s a joke that needed to be delivered at the start of the show, which made it feel awkward to bring someone into it who wasn’t present.”
