Watch how Lilly Singh's late night talk show premiered on NBC last night.
, Lilly Singh has become the highest-profile woman to host her own regular late night network talk show since Joan Rivers on Fox in the ‘80s. She’s also one of two to get her own network late night show in that time—three if you want to count Wanda Sykes’ short-lived weekly Saturday night show on Fox.
It’s safe to say that the history of late night talk show hosts on broadcast TV is almost entirely white and male. The last woman to get a real opportunity, Rivers, was an already world-famous comedian who had been Johnny Carson’s primary guest host on, and who pretty much was only able to get the opportunity because Fox was a brand new, upstart network trying to establish itself against its long-entrenched competition. That was over 30 years ago, and she was fired after only seven months.
Other women have hosted late night talk shows on cable networks, of course. We’re exclusively talking about the classic broadcast networks—NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox—which, even despite decades of steady viewership erosion, still provide a larger and more mainstream national platform than pretty much any cable channel.
So Lilly Singh is here to change the look and tone of late night to whatever extent the network allows her to. Of course she’s only been given a half-hour a night to make that possible, and in the dead-of-night time slot of 1:35 a.m. It’s better than nothing, of course. Singh kicked off the first episode of her show with a musical number that evoked the YouTube work that made her famous while also recognizing the historical impact of her getting her own network show.
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