Please welcome Lilly Singh!
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-NOAH: Thank you so much. How are you? -How are you?
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-♪ Welcome... ♪ -Thank you.
I love we're behind a desk-- I don't have to sit all pretty.
-This is great. -This is nice, isn't it?
-I can sit all ugly. Good. -But you can't.
You still look pretty. Look at you there.
Oh, well, stop. You're so handsome.
-Oh, oh, thank you, I'm... -Gonna put that out there.
We're just gonna... You got a subscriber. Well done.
Well done. Lilly Singh, welcome to the show.
-Thanks for having me. -Why do you bother with this?
-You are huge on... -What?!
For those, like, parents who don't know, maybe...
-My parents. -you are huge on YouTube.
You have-- well, I checked today--
it was seven million, seven hundred thousand
and ninety-two subscribers?
That's accurate. Yes, that is correct.
seven million, seven hundred and ninety-two thousand, in fact.
-Yeah. Thank you. -(cheering, applause)
Seven...
-That is insane. -Thank you.
That is an army of people at your beck...
You realize you have more subscribers than some countries?
Yes, actually. I just recently did a show in Trinidad,
-and their population is 1.3 million. -(woman whoops)
-Look at that... -Eh? Eh? Yeah.
-Let's start at the beginning. -Okay.
-Your story is fascinating, because, uh, -Thank you.
obviously, you hear about YouTube stars,
you hear about people getting into it,
it's random, people farting in their bedroom, uh...
-Yeah, that's what I do. -No, but your story...
your story's amazing.
-You were suffering from depression. -Yes.
And then you started this YouTube channel.
Yes. It was my last year of university,
and I was kind of just going through the motions of life.
I was getting my psychology degree. Go, Freud!
-(whooping, cheering) -Don't cheer.
Uh... (laughs)
Um, and I was just kind of following
in my sister's footsteps blindly,
not really doing anything that made me happy.
I discovered YouTube, uploaded my first video,
and that made me happy, and so I decided to keep doing that.
And you have been... you've been continuing...
you've been continuing successfully.
-You do everything. You do voices, -Mm-hmm.
you do impersonations, you do accents--
what's your favorite accent to do?
Okay, so, um... so my dad's character
-is kind of like, "Hello." -(high-pitched shout)
-You're a fan. I like you. -Oh, wow, your dad's here.
Dad, please, she's doing the accent-- calm down.
My dad character's name is Manjeet.
So he'd be like, "Hello. My name is Manjeet."
And he has that weird, creepy face.
That's not... completely like my dad.
-(laughter) -Well, people love this.
People love this about you. You connect with the people.
You even say it in the docu-film.
-In which, by the way, The Rock is part of it. -Yeah.
-Whatever. Cazh. I mean... -(laughter)
It's cazh. We're, like, best friends, almost... I'd say.
You know? When I was on tour in my Boston show,
his daughter and his girlfriend actually came to my show.
Not me. Another girlfriend. And, um...
(laughter)
And they were so super supportive,
because his daughter's actually a fan of mine,
which is so full circle, because I've been a fan
of Dwayne The Rock Johnson since the day I was born.
-So... -That's everyone, basically.
Yeah, and he's so... Exactly. Who's not?
I mean, something's wrong with you if you're not, I'm sorry.
But, um, and he, like, texted me all this advice
before my tour, and it was so sweet and great.
Did he tell you to slam someone? Was that his advice?
What is The Rock's advice? I wonder what that's like.
Yeah. It was basically a text...
Told you to tell people what's cooking,
they should smell it, is that his advice?
Ask them to smell what's cooking. Ask them.
Um, no, it was kind of, it was a long text,
and it started out with, like,
-you know, "Hey, sexy." Um... -(laughter)
I feel like you're paraphrasing, but...
No, I mean, it was, like, "Hey, thinking of you..."
-No. -(laughter)
No, but for real, it was a very sweet text
that was basically, like, "This is gonna be hard,
"and you have to take care of yourself
"because no one can take care of you
the way you can take care of yourself."
And that was very useful advice on the road.
And you have taken care of yourself.
-I mean, you went on a world tour. -Yeah. Sometimes.
This is insane. Did you ever think you could go
from YouTube to being a world-touring star?
No. That's why I named myself Superwoman.
-(whooping) -'Cause I'm an idiot.
I was like, oh, my God, I can't wait
for the day I blow up and get sued for this.
But you're huge now. People love you,
-Thank you. -the people who are out there.
Here's something that confuses me all the time.
-YouTube stars, you have your following, -Mm-hmm.
you have your freedom, you have your fans--
why do you care about TV?
-I don't understand... -Well, I said you were handsome.
-No, people are like, -(laughter)
"Oh, I'm moving to L.A. and I want to get into acting..."
but I'm like, but you are the future, though.
That's very sweet of you. Thank you.
You said it, not me. Let's just rewind that part
and play it again. But, um, you know what it is?
It's for me, the few times I have been on set,
it's just a totally different experience than what I do.
I edit myself, shoot myself, write myself.
When I went on a set the first time,
I remember going in front of a camera,
and I was, like, acting right away,
and the director's like, "Hi. I have to yell 'action.'"
-I'm like, "What?!" -Oh, wait, so you just started?
Yeah. Exactly.
This is a different challenge and experience.
I'm just picturing you just starting
in the middle of a thing. "Ah, to be or not to be."
-That was me. -Whoa, whoa, whoa. Action.
I was like, "Let me live over here."
What's your favorite part of it all?
You know, if you said to someone,
"Do this, do this, do this for these reasons,"
what is your favorite thing that you got out of all of it?
Truthfully-- and I'm just gonna be so honest--
it has built... my YouTube videos have built
-such a community for me. -Yeah.
I was feeling so alone before I started making YouTube videos,
and now I feel like I have a family of seven,
eight million people that truly, truly relate to one another
and make each other happy.
-My ultimate goal is happiness, and I feel like -Aw.
I've accomplished that through YouTube.
I thought you were gonna say money. Okay.
I thought you were gonna say money.
I mean, money is the result of what I do,
-but it's not the goal. -Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, I thought you were gonna say money.
Thank you so much for being here, though, Lilly.