Youtube star lilly singh is a bawse

She’s also known by her internet moniker Superwoman and has been described as one of the most important online creators of her generation. In September she gets her own NBC show, ‘A Little Late With Lilly Singh’

LILLY Singh, who built a career on Youtube as a comedian, is getting her own late-night show.

Singh, 30, will host a half-hour show on NBC in September, becoming the only woman with a late-night show on one of the so-called Big Four broadcast networks.

“An Indian-canadian woman with her own latenight show? Now that is a dream come true,” Singh said in a statement. The show will include in-studio interviews, as well as taped skits and segments.

The announcement comes a month after the news that the late-night host Carson Daly would step away from his 1.30am show, Last Call With Carson Daly.

Singh’s new show, A Little Late With Lilly Singh, which she discussed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, would be “kind of like my Youtube channel”, she said.

Except it would have “more than three staff members and my sound guy won’t also be an extra, and won’t also write the script”, she said.

Singh has been creating and uploading Youtube videos since 2010 and has amassed more than 14 million subscribers.

Her skits and monologues, which regularly draw on her Indian heritage and experience as a child of immigrants, cover a range of topics, including dating (especially inter-cultural dating), womanhood and friendship.

Her success on Youtube has also opened the door to other opportunities. Singh has acted in movies such as Bad Moms and Fahrenheit 451.

Her book, How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life, was a New York Times best-seller. Last year, she began her own production company, Unicorn Island Productions, with Polly Auritt, and the pair will partner with Universal Television to produce her new show.

“Lilly is truly a star, and we’re thrilled to welcome her to our NBC family,” Doug Vaughan, NBC Entertainment’s executive vice president for special programmes and late night, said. “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.” | The New York Times