Tyler McKay | Assistant News Editor
Featured Image: The show premiered last Monday, on September 16. | Courtesy of Brown Girl Magazine
Lilly Singh, who graduated from York’s psychology program in 2010 and lived in Scarborough recently began hosting a late-night show on NBC. The show is called A Little Late with Lilly Singh and it premiered on September 16.
Singh is known to most of her fans through her YouTube channel “||Superwoman||”, which has amassed almost 15 million subscribers since she started posting videos eight years ago.
“At the time, I wasn’t even totally aware of what YouTube could become. I didn’t think it could be a career, I didn’t think I could make a lot of money from it, I didn’t think it would be sustainable by any means. I just had an idea and wanted to creatively express it somehow,” Singh said in an interview in 2015.
Singh’s content consists of original skits, interviews, and monologues about everything from pop culture to her experience as a child of immigrant parents. She became so influential that in 2017 she was on Forbes’ list of highest paid YouTubers.
Her fame only increased with the publishing of her book, “How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life.” She has also worked as an actress, appearing in the films Fahrenheit?451, Bad Moms and Ice Age: Collision Course.
Singh’s show on NBC has replaced Last Call with Carson Daly that had been on the air for 18 seasons.
“Lilly Singh brings her unique perspective to late night as she hosts celebrity interviews, talks current events, performs musical and sketch comedy, plays games, and more,” as described on the official NBC website.
In an interesting move by NBC, A Little Late’s first-ever episode was streamed on YouTube a few hours before its television debut. According to the CBC, this was done on purpose “to try to tap into the online fan base Singh steadily built over the last decade.”
“Lilly is truly a star and we’re thrilled to welcome her to our NBC family,” said Executive Vice President, Special Programs and Late Night, for NBC Entertainment Doug Vaughan in an NBC media release.
“She is a multi-talented performer who will surely have a great rapport with not only all her guests but also with our devoted late-night audience.”
“An Indian-Canadian woman with her own late-night show? Now that is a dream come true. I’m thrilled to bring it to life on NBC,” Singh said.
About three years ago, Lilly Singh visited the York campus and brought her positivity with her. She stood on stage and said to the eagerly listening crowd of students, “When you graduate from this amazing school, you can do whatever you want to do. I would never have imagined in my wildest dreams I would be texting The Rock and going to the White House and doing all these things.”
“I’m really going to encourage you that, whatever you want to do, don’t just believe it, you gotta work really hard to achieve it. You can all do that. I truly believe you can all do that,” Singh added.
