Nikki Glaser and Sara Schaefer on Their MTV Talk Show, Stand-Up Comedy, and Going Viral

Glaser: I sometimes like to get into with them. I know you should block, but I'll just respond to mean comments in the nicest way. One girl wrote, "I should come to where you live and punch you in the face." And I was like, "I'm in New York City. Let's meet up, girl." Because then they're so excited that someone they saw on TV responded that they kind of back off. You just beat them at their own game.

Let's talk about your relationship some more. Can each of you name a strength the the brings to this partnership and makes it better?

Glaser: Sara is so good; her instinct is killer. If she thinks something is funny, she's generally right. I'm really impressed by her ability to know ahead of time what works and what doesn't. I really appreciate how willing she is to look goofy or get silly and weird, and I get nervous dancing and looking stupid. Sara does it and commits, and people love it. I'm glad she can do those things because I can't, so I just sit back and watch and enjoy it like an audience member.

Schaefer: Aww, thank you. Nikki is really, really good at writing jokes. I have learned some much from her, and she'll submit jokes to the show along with the monologue writers. She doesn't know this, but she's very good at acting silly and goofy. She just does it in a different way than I do.

Like on The Newlywed Game, I'm going to ask you a questions and see if your answers match up. First one: Our biggest fight was...

Glaser: I don't we've gotten into a fight.

Schaefer: I don't have anything.

Glaser: Perhaps we've gotten into little tiffs about jokes and the show. I will say when we do butt heads, we squash it immediately. In terms of that, it's the healthiest relationship I will ever have.

Schaefer: We've never not talked. I've never done the "I'm not speaking to you right now." I've had that with every other girl friend I've ever had, but not Nikki.

If the set/offices for Nikki & Sara LIVE caught on fire, the one thing she'd grab...

Glaser: Wait, everyone made it out? [Laughter]

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Yes, I should've clarified. Everyone's fine.__

Schaefer: Nikki would grab our cardboard cutout—

Glaser: I know! I was going to say Sara would grab the cardboard cutout, too! We have a giant cutout of Chris Harrison. One of us would grab the cutout of him, and one would grab the cutout of us.

Schaefer: Cardboard cutouts aren't cheap!

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Who's better at ad-libbing?__

Glaser: Whenever one of us not good at it, the other picks up the slack. Sometimes we're both on, but we're never both off.

Schaefer: I totally agree. Nikki is so good at coming at coming up with a really good punchline.