The YouTube star's 'A Little Late with Lilly Singh' is poised to shake up late night. But she's not worried whether her brand of comedy will play in Peoria.
In the movie “Late Night,” which opened in limited release Friday, Mindy Kaling plays Molly Patel, a woman plucked from obscurity to help revitalize a long-running but creatively stagnant late-night show.Meanwhile, NBC executives saw the benefits of breaking up the very white, very male monotony of broadcast late night and enlisting a digital native as host — much of the format’s relevance is now as tied to the social chatter it generates as the Nielsen numbers it pulls in.
Singh isn’t the first YouTube sensation to make the jump to more traditional avenues: Grace Helbig, a friend of Singh’s, brought her funny and awkward humor to E! Network, where she fronted a talk show after Chelsea Handler’s departure. “Right out of the gate, she said, ‘I do not want to do politics, I do not want to get up there and talk about Donald Trump or any of that stuff. I want to be fun and funny and inclusive,” says Irwin, who worked for years on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien.” “That was such a breath of fresh air.”
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