After appearing on Jay Leno in her early twenties, being eliminated first from her season of “Dancing with the Stars,” and — in the last year — roasting Tom Brady and hosting the Golden Globes, Nikki Glaser is happy with the level of fame she has.

It was her roast of the decorated New England Patriot that she says really broke through. “The Roast of Tom Brady,” which was streamed live on Netflix last May, was watched almost 2 million times on its debut night.

“It seemed to be like a Super Bowl kind of event where America was watching — and I was very famous, for like, four days. I couldn’t go anywhere. People were stopping me anytime I walked up and down the street,” Glaser said on Boston Public Radio Wednesday. “Then the attention dissipated, and it went back to normal. It was really lovely. I really love the level of fame I’m at, where it’s like, when people recognize me, they’re really tickled by it.

“My spray tanner girl will be spray tanning me, and I’m fully naked in front of her. You know, bent over, and she’s, like, spraying my butt cheeks and she’s like, ‘My boyfriend and I are such huge fans,’” Glaser said. “Like, that’s a cool thing that I get to give you, what a nice little gift.”

She hosted the Golden Globes last month, and now, Glaser’s on a stand-up tour for her show “Alive and Unwell.” She’ll be performing this week at the Boch Center’s Wang Theatre, where she’ll be roasting the city of Boston.

“I don’t even know who I am at roasts. I really don’t relate to that person. I become, like, possessed and lose all sense of decency,” Glaser said. “I think I disassociate, I really do. I have a job to do. I feel a little bit like an assassin — like, I cannot have empathy.”

She wasn’t that emotionless assassin, though, when she and partner Gleb Savchenko were eliminated in the first week of “Dancing with the Stars’” season 27. She called it “the darkest day of my career.”

“I say that facetiously, but also I’m being honest. Like it’s embarrassing to do something that’s really out of your comfort zone, you’re not good at, you’ve never done before,” Glaser said. “When you go, ‘OK, you know what? I’m not a joke. I’m going to really try to be a dancer. I’m going to take this seriously.’ And then they instantly say, ‘We don’t like that, you’re horrible.’ It’s humiliating.”

Since then, the comedian has appeared in several projects and had her own HBO Original special “Someday You’ll Die.” Glaser will be performing six shows at The Boch Center’s Wang Theatre Friday, Feb. 21, through Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025.