She's making history as the first woman of colour to host a late-night show on a network
September 16 was a big day for late-night TV. No, Jimmy Fallon wasn’t finally told to stop talking over his guests, and, no, Jimmy Kimmel didn’t send Guillermo to another red carpet. Instead, we were introduced to the new superwoman of late-night TV: comedian Lilly Singh.
No, no one has ever mistaken *me* for Chopra, but they have mistaken me for one of the handful of other South Asian women in the room. While Nath’s concern largely comes from a fear that Singh will get caught up in differentiating herself from other hosts, inherent in my initial panic was the assumption that for Singh to succeed in her new role, she’d have to have a similar appeal to that of her white, male peers. I wasn’t seeing that on-screen and I was feeling frantic. And that’s pretty messed up.
These are a few of the many reasons people will be drawn to the show. “Maybe every single thing won’t be [relatable], maybe everybody didn’t understand what the word ‘didi’ means, but there will be other things in there that they can relate to,” says Estrada. As an LGBTQ South-Asian Canadian woman, Singh is seriously nuanced, so it makes sense that she’d appeal to a diverse audience and their varied experiences. And it’s a draw that late-night needs.
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