New York (AFP)

Canadian YouTubeuse Lilly Singh became Monday the first minority woman to present a talk show on a major American channel, occupied only by white men so far.

In an effort to capitalize on its popularity on YouTube, where it has 14.9 million subscribers, the NBC channel had decided to put this first issue of "A Little Late with Lilly Singh" on the video platform before the launch. broadcast time on television.

In general, the video platform was a blessing for all the American second and third party talk shows, who found a new, younger audience there.

The 30-year-old Indian parent Lilly Singh has taken over the last of NBC's three daily slots for evening talk shows, hosted by host Carson Daly.

Released at 1:35 am New York time, the program is not recorded live, any more than any of the great talk shows on American television.

Only one woman had her own weekly evening talk show on a major American channel, actress and comedian Joan Rivers, for only two years (1986-88) on Fox.

Comedian Samantha Bee was featured on her "Full Frontal" evening talk show launched in 2016, but it's aired on the TBS cable channel, which has had a much smaller audience than the four "networks" , the big national stations.

Abandoning the traditional introductory monologue, dear to American talk shows, Lilly Singh used a pre-recorded sketch in which she rapped in front of fictional chain leaders.

"Hi, my name is Lilly and I'm not a white man," says the one who made his bisexuality public. "My skin is colorful and it's not self-tanning."

During the show, many of his jokes revolved around the diversity and omnipresence of whites on television.

"I understand that for some people," she said, whispering "Whites," "seeing someone like me host a show is terrifying."

"One of the biggest fears of white America is that minorities take their jobs from them," she continued. "And let's be honest, that's what we're doing."

The first guest on the show was actress, screenwriter and producer Mindy Kaling, whose parents are of Indian and Bangladeshi descent.

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