{"id":150314,"date":"2025-09-17T18:18:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150314\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T18:18:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T18:18:06","slug":"lilly-singh-says-she-was-set-up-to-fail-in-late-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150314\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilly Singh Says She Was \u201cSet Up To Fail\u201d In Late-Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tLilly Singh<\/a> was one of the last women to have her own late-night show.<\/p>\n

\n\tA Little Late with Lilly Singh<\/a> aired for two seasons on NBC with 177 episodes between September 2019 and June 2021. The show succeeded Last Call with Carson Daly and aired at 1:37am.<\/p>\n

\n\tFour years on, Singh is reflecting on her experience in late-night and said that she was \u201cset up to fail\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to SiriusXM\u2019s Julia Cunningham, Singh said that filming 96 episodes in three months was not the \u201ccutest schedule\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI don\u2019t think anyone intentionally was like, We\u2019re gonna set her up to fail\u2019,\u201d she said. \u201cBut\u2026 I don\u2019t think any part of it was set up to really be successful. Late-night shows are supposed to be timely and season one, when those 96 episodes were releasing, of course a global pandemic hit, so now I\u2019m the only show that has a live audience. I\u2019m talking about traveling. I\u2019m talking about parties during the late-night episodes and people are like, \u2018What\u2019s going on?\u2019. Then the second season also released during the pandemic, so it was Zoom interviews. So, I had two pandemic seasons of a late-night show, half the writer\u2019s room of everyone else, and half the budget and honestly, I\u2019m so grateful because I feel like I can do any schedule and I learned so much, but yeah, it was really tough.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe added that it was \u201cone of the most challenging things I\u2019ve ever done in my life\u201d, adding that she doesn\u2019t see herself doing another late-night show.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut if any show that\u2019s like a daily type of show would come up to me, I would be better equipped to ask better questions. Talk to me about the budget. Talk to me about the schedule. Talk to me about like any contingencies, any plans, like there was just so many questions I would\u2019ve asked,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\n\tSince the show ended, Singh has had roles in animated movie The Bad Guys and is a guest star on ABC comedy Shifting Gears alongside Tim Allen and Kat Dennings. She also co-wrote and produced sex education comedy Doin\u2019 It.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lilly Singh was one of the last women to have her own late-night show. A Little Late with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[101049,64,63,134,74416,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-150314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-a-little-late-with-lilly-singh","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-lilly-singh","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}