Nikki Glaser to perform at Comedy Attic tonight

Comedian Nikki Glaser will perform several shows at the Comedy Attic this weekend.

Performances will take place at 8 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday, with additional shows at 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

Tickets range from $8 to $14 and may be purchased on the Comedy Attic’s website.

Glaser, who began performing stand-up comedy when she was 18, started her career at comedy clubs in Kansas City and St. Louis, Mo.

“Performing at the gritty clubs in both cities taught me how to be a road comic before I was out on the road,” she said in an interview with Westword, an alt-weekly newspaper in Denver. “The rooms were drunk and smoky, and the crowds were down to hear anything. They weren’t uptight or trying to be cool. It was a great place to start.”

Glaser has since appeared on several TV shows including “Last Comic Standing,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “Conan.”

Last year, she co-hosted the late night MTV talk show “Nikki & Sara Live” with fellow comedian Sara Schaefer.

Since the show’s cancellation, she has spent much more time on the road.

“I have the skill set to try new jokes in the middle of a set and not have their inherent weakness derail me,” she said. “I don’t feel the same pressure to be perfect up there that I did in the beginning.”

Rachel Osman