The comedian joked about his 1991 “Teen Beat” interview during her opening monologue at the 2026 awards show.

Leonardo DiCaprio surprised Nikki Glaser with 3 baskets of ‘pasta, pasta, and more pasta’ after Golden Globes joke

The comedian joked about his 1991 "Teen Beat" interview during her opening monologue at the 2026 awards show.

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- Leonardo DiCaprio thanked Nikki Glaser for her Golden Globes jab about his love of pasta with three baskets of the stuff.

- Glaser said she sends flowers to anyone she jokes about and is a good sport about it.

- The comedian joked about how the Oscar winner never opens up, except for a 1991 profile in *Teen Beat* where he mentioned his favorite food.

It was impastable for Leonardo DiCaprio to not enjoy Nikki Glaser's very fusilli joke.

While appearing on *The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon** *to promote her Hulu special *Good Girl*, the comedian mentioned that the Oscar winner sent her a gift after her Golden Globes joke about him. Glaser said that when someone is a good sport about her making fun of them, she always sends flowers, "just to say thank you because it is a part of why I'm successful at it."

The only person who ever sent her something in return, however, was DiCaprio.

"I did a joke about Leonardo DiCaprio, which I was really struggling with because I was like, 'I just don't want to make the joke about how he has young girlfriends. It's been done so many times.' That joke's been going on longer than, you know, his current girlfriend's been alive."

Nikki Glaser and Jimmy Fallon on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' in April 2026.

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Instead, Glaser decided to lean into how private DiCaprio is. "There was nothing else to say about him. And then I was like, 'Well, that's kind of funny.'" She did some digging to find something that he revealed about himself in the past, and her writing team found the *One Battle After Another* star's 1991 *Teen Beat *magazine interview.

"I was like, 'Leo, we don't know anything about you. The only thing we know about you is from a *Teen Beat* article in 1991 where you told us your favorite food is pasta, pasta, and more pasta.'" In return, DiCaprio sent her "three baskets of pasta" after the ceremony.

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Glaser then joked that she thought DiCaprio's gift meant something more than simply thank you. "Part of me was like, 'Does Leo want to smash?' Like, I was like, 'All right.' And then, I was like, the type of girl he goes for, he wouldn't send pasta to. Like, it was, like, a dry pasta. I think the company was like 'Mena Pasta,' " she quipped, adding that he may be more of a SpaghettiOs guy.

The comedian concluded that she's waiting for "a package from Hermès any day now" after her joke likening Sean Penn to a sexy leather handbag.

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The night of the Golden Globes — where DiCaprio was up for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy for *One Battle After Another* — enterprising internet sleuths unearthed the full *Teen Beat* interview. In addition to his favorite foods, the then-*Growing Pains *star named his favorite band (Pink Floyd), his favorite book (*Lord of the Flies*), and his "dream car" ("a solar-powered 1982 Jaguar").

See Nikki Glaser's full appearance on *The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon *below.

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