Lilly Singh Is The First Woman Of Colour With Her Late Night Show. Where’s The Diversity?

We all know Lilly Singh. We know her as a Youtube star, as a baller babe, as Superwoman. Oh and she lives up to her name. So much so that when you type that in Google, the first page searches don’t lead us to the DC comics superhero, but to the South-Asian Youtube celebrity. So you would think that she is going place. And she is. But she’s charting her own path. She has landed her very own late night TV show with NBC.

Lilly Singh has become the first Indian-Canadian and woman of colour to host a late-night talk show, all of which is wonderful. Justin Trudeau also thinks so. However, what is annoying and honestly gets our goat is what she’s the first woman of colour to host a talk show in the after hours. It’s 2019. Did no network and their board rooms think of having a woman of colour host a show? Sounds deeply misogynistic and racist to us. The network already has two talk shows, hosted by men, at night. There’s Late Night With Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.  But a woman, and a woman of colour just made it to the ranks. Which is surprising because boy, is she famous. The ace Youtuber famous for her comedy sketches and an amazing sense of humour, is also been the author of the bestselling book, How to Be a Bawse.

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That being said, we can’t wait to see what the show has to offer. As ardent followers of her Youtube channel, we are particularly intrigued. Now we already know that she reached out to Dwayne Johnson, aka the Rock and Hasan Minaj for expert advice, which could probably mean we might just see her show being laced with equal parts sarcasm and political humour. We hope her famous imitation of Punjabi parents and her hilarious raps that we love also make it to the show.

In the recent video that she released, she talks about how her show would have a mix of everything from segments about what she believes in to sketch comedies to interviews. And considering Lilly is good friends with Priyanka Chopra, we might just see our desi Girl make an appearance!

While our mind races to figure out what the show would be like, we can’t wait for it to be September, which is the tentative month for the show to start airing. Way to go superwoman, we can’t wait to see you!