Nikki Glaser Says She Realized Leonardo DiCaprio Is a ‘Legit, Kind, Cool Dude’ After He Sent Her 3 Baskets of Pasta (Exclusive)

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• Nikki Glaser dives deep with PEOPLE on how she felt when Leonardo DiCaprio despatched her three baskets of pasta in response to her jokes about him on the 2026 Golden Globe Awards

• Glaser beforehand mentioned she despatched thanks notes and flowers to everybody she poked enjoyable at and DiCaprio was the one particular person to put in writing again

• “It was so entirely unexpected,” Glaser says of DiCaprio’s gesture

Nikki Glaser you may have lastly discovered extra about Leonardo DiCaprio after he sent her three baskets of pasta in response to the jokes she made about him in 2026 Golden Globe Awards.

Glaser, 41, beforehand detailed receiving the reward from DiCaprio, 51, throughout an April 21 look on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. When the comic appeared at Netflix Is a Joke’s Night of Too Many Stars occasion on the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on Wednesday, May 6, she detailed her actual response when the hampers of pasta arrived throughout a pink carpet chat with PEOPLE.

“I got sent a picture of it because I wasn’t there when it arrived, and I was like, ‘What is this?’ And they were like, ‘It’s from Leonardo DiCaprio,’ and I was like, ‘There’s no way.’ And then I zoomed in more, and I was kind of confused,” she recalled.

“I was like, ‘Have I sent pasta?’ and I didn’t remember that the joke I had told was that his favorite food was pasta, pasta, and more pasta, and that he sent me three baskets of it. So he did three servings of pasta. It was so funny,” the comic added.

“It was so entirely unexpected and honestly,” Glaser continued, “I was just bowled over by how kind it was because he took a couple of jokes that night that I’m sure — no one loves to have jokes directed at them, so it’s probably really kind of like, ‘Oh God, this again.’ “

Glaser famous throughout that April Tonight Show look that she despatched DiCaprio and different celebrities whom she poked enjoyable at in (*3*) again in January flowers and “a thank you note for being such a good sport,” as she says on the carpet.

“But for him to write me back and give me that gift, it was just — oh my God,” Glaser says. “There’s moments in this career where these people that you’ve always looked up to and you’ve always really loved from afar end up being the people that you wish they were.”

During the Globes, Glaser joked that one of the one items of info DiCaprio has ever shared about his non-public life concerned a 1991 interview wherein the actor mentioned “[his] favorite food is pasta, pasta and more pasta.”

“I felt like in receiving that gift from him, I learned more about him than I have because he doesn’t do interviews,” she tells PEOPLE now. “I’m like, oh, he’s a legit, kind, cool dude. Funny, cool, and kind, and just exactly what you want [him] to be.”

on The Tonight Show in April, Glaser mentioned that DiCaprio was “the only person who sent something back to me” after she despatched flowers to these she poked enjoyable at throughout the January awards ceremony. She tells PEOPLE that she would by no means have anticipated the actor to take action.

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“I don’t dwell on it too much because it kind of trips me up, just having any kind of correspondence with Leonardo DiCaprio,” she provides. “It shouldn’t be happening. How did I get here?”

Glaser instructed PEOPLE in an interview earlier than the Globes that she felt challenged to search out “anything else about him that is right for mockery, but not mockery,” past the actor’s tendency to date younger women for her second consecutive Golden Globes internet hosting stint.

During that awards ceremony, DiCaprio laughed, mouthed “Yes!” and pointed at Glaser to present her a playful thumbs up when she joked about his obvious love for pasta.

“The type of girl he goes for, he wouldn’t send pasta to,” Glaser joked on The Tonight Show in April.

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