Comedian Nikki Glaser Details Exactly How Much Judd Apatow & Leslie Mann Paid Her To Babysit Their Daughters
At my first babysitting job, I earned less than $5 an hour — so I was clearly sitting for the wrong people. Comedian Nikki Glaser got a lot luckier with her babysitting job. She revealed that she watched Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann’s daughters nearly two decades ago and got paid a much higher hourly rate.
The recent Golden Globes host appeared on The Howard Stern Show this week, where she chatted about her lucrative job watching Maude, now 28, and Iris, now 23.
“This was 2007, I think it was like $35, $40 an hour,” Glaser said, adding that the amount was “more than I’d ever been paid to babysit.” That’s a lot of money, even now! According to Care.com, the average starting rate for a babysitter in Los Angeles is $24.52 an hour, so this is nearly double that.
We can imagine she wouldn’t want to lose that job anytime soon! Especially because the girls were so great. “His kids were so sweet. They were so funny,” she shared in the interview.
Not to mention the connections. One time Adam Sandler called while Apatow and Mann were out “and I picked up the phone. … He was like, ‘And how’s your night going?’” Glaser recalled, adding, “It was my first interaction with Adam Sandler, and I have loved him ever since. That was the nicest call I’ve ever gotten from someone when I was babysitting.” Aww!
Apatow also got her an audition for a role on Funny People, which ended up being given to Aubrey Plaza.
In 2011, Glaser left the nanny life to pursue comedy, telling Vulture that her goal “is to never nanny again.” She added, “I’ll just never love your kid as much as you do. It’s impossible. I babysat for Judd Apatow when I lived in LA. It was a great gig, but it pained me to be around such greatness and only be known as a nanny.”
That’s fair! And it clearly worked out for her, as she is now writing a movie with Apatow in a cool, full-circle moment.
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