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Lilly Singh's feminist music video slays late night stereotypes on the first 'A Little Late'

Name: Lilly Singh's feminist music video slays late night stereotypes on the first 'A Little Late'
Uploaded: 2019-09-17T04:17:44+00:00
Description: Look out, Jimmys.

Look out, Jimmys.

Caitlin Welsh

on September 17, 2019

Lilly Singh's feminist music video slays late night stereotypes on the first 'A Little Late'

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With A Little Late With Lilly Singh debuting on NBC after Seth Meyers on Monday night, the late night landscape just got a little more colorful — as we discover in her first ever cold open sketch, the YouTuber turned talk show host isn't a fan of navy suits.

In the sketch, Singh arrives at a (presumably fictionalized) NBC to discuss her show, only to find that the room full of white guys need to be educated on her whole deal. So she jumps on the table to explain why she's not like the Jimmys: for starters, her material is less political ("I ain't talkin' bout Donald unless his last name is Glover"), she's the B in LGBT ("I'll take Sansa and her brother") and her writers' room looks like a mini United Nations ("not because I had to, but because I could").

Oh, and her equally-paid staff can ditch their desk cardigans, because that office thermostat is going up.

Topics NBC

Caitlin Welsh

Caitlin is Mashable's Australian Editor. She has written for The Guardian, Junkee, and any number of plucky little music and culture publications that were run on the smell of an oily rag and have since been flushed off the Internet like a dead goldfish by their new owners. She also worked at Choice, Australia's consumer advocacy non-profit and magazine, and as such has surprisingly strong opinions about whitegoods. She enjoys big dumb action movies, big clever action movies, cult Canadian comedies set in small towns, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Replacements, smoky mezcal, revenge bedtime procrastination, and being left the hell alone when she's reading.