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Lilly Singh’s Talk Show To Welcome Mindy Kaling, Rainn Wilson, Chelsea Handler This Week

Lilly Singh’s new NBC late-night talk show, A Little Late With Lilly Singh, is set to debut a little early.

The Canadian YouTuber will become the only female late-night host on a major broadcast network tonight, when her show debuts on YouTube at 10 pm. This is earlier than the show’s regular airdate of 1:35 am ET — after Late Night With Seth Meyers — and shows that Singh is seeking to keep her online and television presences deeply intertwined. Singh currently counts 14.9 million subscribers on her flagship channel, and a dedicated channel for A Little Late counts 51,900 subscribers.

At the same time, Singh has named guests for the first week of A Little Late

. Tonight, she will welcome Mindy Kaling and Rainn Wilson, per The Hollywood Reporter, with Saturday Night Live’s Kenan Thompson (Sept. 17), Black-ish’s Tracee Ellis Ross (Sept. 18), and Chelsea Handler (Sept. 19) rounding out the rest of the week. In addition to celebrity guests, episodes will also comprise games and sketches.

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In addition to its YouTube debut, A Little Late will be promoted on NBC with an hourlong primetime special that will air at 10 p.m. ET on Wednesday.

You can check out a teaser for A Little Late below:

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