NBC's newest late-night host, Lilly Singh, talks about the weight of being one of the few women to host a late-night comedy show.
Lilly Singh isn’t yet tired of being asked how it feels to be one of the only women hosting a late-night comedy show. But she’s a bit tired of feeling that she has to answer that question on behalf of all women in comedy.
“There’s some weight to it,” the star of “A Little Late With Lilly Singh” told NBC News Now this week, fresh off the debut of her new show. “I’m super humbled. I’m well aware of what an amazing opportunity it is. But that question carries the weight of ‘if [the show] doesn’t do well, or if it fails, or is this the only shot.’ It kind of has that essence to it.”
Singh, a Canadian woman of Indian descent who made a name for herself as an irreverent YouTube star, tries to approach the question a little differently, honoring her late-night predecessors such as Joan Rivers, former VH1 VJ Cynthia Garrett and comedian Chelsea Handler. But she’s also looking to the future. “I’m one piece of this puzzle, but the women before me have done such amazing things, and the women after me will do such amazing things,” the 30-year-old said.
this month, because that’s what made her YouTube channel a success. She also made sure to have an inclusive writers room, not because she had to, but because she could, and she plans to stay away from politics on her show.
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