A middle-aged man, attached to a polygraph test and surrounded by television cameras, sits across from Nikki Glaser. She asks him what day it is, who the president is, and also, “Have you ever done anal?”

She is a comedian. She is also his daughter.

Her producers have ambushed him and her mother with this stunt for the new Comedy Central show Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, premiering February 9. In a surprising and satisfying turn of instant karma, she is more uncomfortable than he is. “I wrote those questions in the safety of my office, weeks before,” Glaser says, later. “And then he’s sitting in front of me, and it’s like, Who wrote this? You did, you idiot.”

Loosely speaking, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser is about sex. The talk-show hybrid will investigate American eroticism through panel discussions, guest interviews, field pieces (Glaser attends a foot-fetish convention carrying head shots of her feet), and social experiments (viewers send in porn for her to analyze). You’ve already seen Glaser—in several Inside Amy Schumer sketches; in endless press photos with Schumer, who is a friend and collaborator (spy Glaser in this human pyramidwith Amy and Jennifer Lawrence); and as the co-host of the now canceled MTV pop-culture show Nikki & Sara Live. Comedy Central will make sure you see much more of her. The network has slotted Not Safe after it’s flagship show Tosh.0. Prepare to be inundated with advertisements.

But Glaser, 31, isn’t creating a standard scintillating sex show. In addition to Not Safe being funny and sexy, it aims to cultivate a sense of danger. Why ask her parents intimate questions about their sex lives in front of cameras? “The same reason guys on Jackass staple their ass cheeks together,” Glaser explains. “I like putting myself in uncomfortable situations.” That day, she also forced her parents to review a box of sex toys with her, and to improvise their way through the “sex talk” they never gave her as a child. “The night before that shoot, I was dreading it,” she recalls. “And that’s when I know I’m doing something good.”

Glaser, right, and comedian Kyle Kinane feed lines to the performers during a live porn shoot, for a segment called “In Ear Porn.” Courtesy of Comedy Central

Glaser has been mining the subject of sex in her stand-up act for years. If you’ve only seen one of her TV appearances, which are subject to Standards and Practices censorship, you haven’t really seen her. Her filthy candor and fearlessness on the topic are a result, she suspects, of being a late bloomer. A self-described former prude who lost her virginity at 21, the St. Louis native says, “I was obsessed with sex because I wasn’t having it.”

Even if Not Safe features a beautiful blonde handling dildos and watching porn, it won’t cater to the male gaze. During that faux-sex-talk segment with her parents, Glaser pretends to be a naïve child, asking questions such as, “Why does the vagina have curtains?” One heartbreakingly hilarious question from staff writer Lizzy Cooperman that didn’t make the cut was, “Who wins?”

“I want to educate younger girls,” Glaser insists, “so they’re not so freaked out, don’t feel that they owe sex to anyone or need a boyfriend as a stamp of approval, and don’t think their bodies are gross because they’ve never heard what sex really is.”

In one planned segment, Glaser will drive a taxi, pick up men leaving strip clubs, and, game-show-style, offer them money in exchange for correct answers to trivia questions—which will all pertain to women’s rights. Not Safe researchers are even looking into gender disparity and discriminatory laws against transgendered people. These are lofty subjects on a network catering to laugh-seeking males aged 18 to 34. Glaser knows some men are reluctant to watch a woman joke about sex. “Whenever I read a Reddit review of a female stand-up, it’s always guys saying, ‘They just talk about their vaginas.’ It’s such a double standard, because all men talk about is their dicks. . . . I think the problem here is just that women are talking.”