Lilly Singh raps, calls out late night TV's whiteness in latewithlilly premiere
YouTube creator-turned-late-night-host Lilly Singh rapped on top of a table, played a game with Mindy Kaling and called out the overall whiteness of late night TV in the first-ever episode ofJoined by guests Kaling and Rainn Wilson, Singh kicked off her show with a promo, where she stood alongside Kaling. "I have a set, I have a stage, I have a desk, I have a DJ, I have a full, amazing crew... I've got the greatest audience in the world," she said.
"So a maroon suit, then?" one of the executives responded at the end of the rap. Singh then cued her introduction. "As a woman, I'm especially excited to join this group of people," Singh said, as a picture of all-white broadcast late night hosts appeared onscreen. She joked that she and Hasan Minhaj of Netflix'sLater in the monologue, she added, "Maybe I shouldn't be joking about this because one of the biggest fears of white America is that minorities are coming to take their jobs and honestly, we are.
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