had an in person celebrity guest for season two,
but that changes today.
She's an actor, a Canadian, that's right.
And she's the star of
Mindy Kaling's "Never Have I Ever."
Please welcome Maitreyi Ramakrishnan.
Um, hello! - Hi.
- You look so good. Come in, come in, come in, come in!
- Thank you, thank you, thank you.
- Were you just waiting outside for this cue?
- Yeah, just for this cue. - I love that for you.
- Just for that cue, and I made it!
- I'm, so excited we're here in person.
You're in my fake house. I love this for you.
- I love your fake house. - Welcome, thank you.
- So fake. - Have a seat.
So this is your late night debut, is that right?
- It is. - That's crazy.
- Thank you for having me. - Of course.
That's crazy, because you're, like, such a big star.
That's crazy to me. - Nah.
Nah, nah, nah. Let's relax.
Let's relax there, no, no, no.
- I'll give you an example.
You know, what's crazy is
Mindy Kaling was my first
guest of season one. - Exactly.
- And now you're my first in person celebrity guest.
- Full circle. It's good times.
- We have so many similarities.
- It's crazy. - It's--so,
we're both South Asian.
You're from Toronto, I'm from Toronto.
What else? What else is going on here?
- Um, the York thing, for us. Got that going.
- York University. - I mean, I definitely related
to you a lot back in your YouTube days.
Like, your beginning days. - Okay, all right.
- And you were, like, my role model.
I was like, "Oh, my God.
Holy hell, like, this is--" can I say "hell" on this?
- You can say whatever you want.
- Oh, my God. - Yeah.
- Okay, sometimes I say, like, [bleep] and I'm like,
"Oh, wait, I'm not allowed to say [bleep]."
- Do it, do it, do everything. - Okay.
So basically, young, like, middle school me
saw you on YouTube and was like, "Oh, my God,
who the hell is this girl? She's so funny."
Ran upstairs. Showed my, like, family.
My, like, parents, my brother. I'm like, "This girl--"
Like, one love, Superwoman. I was like, yes.
This is it. - Real fan, real fan.
- With the "That is a wrap and zoop!"
- You're a real fan, that's real.
- Yeah, oh, I was all about it.
And then there came times
when I would be in school. - Yeah.
- And then, like, a supply teacher,
a substitute teacher, as some call it.
- These Americans say "substitute."
Supply teacher. - Supply, bro, it's supply.
A supply teacher would come in,
and that would obviously be the best day of my life.
- Right. - 'Cause that means
I can just wreak havoc.
And then when they said, "What's your name?"
I said, "Lilly."
- Shut up. Did you actually?
- I mean, like, what else?
It was just, like, the first thing that came into mind
and I was like, "My name's Lilly."
And then my friends would jokingly also follow along
with it and be like, "Lilly, stop being so crazy."
And I would be like, "You know me."
So yeah, your name-- - Would you imitate me?
- No, I would just be, like, absolutely, like, crazy
and just reckless and, like, not--
- Okay, so you'd imitate me. - Yeah, like, a little bit.
- Oh, my God. Okay, so wait. I--my parents are from
Northern India, Punjab. Your parents are from...
- Sri Lanka. - Yes.
- They were born and raised in Sri Lanka
and then they, you know, came over to Canada
along the way as, you know, the life of
immigrant families do. - Yep.
- And then I was born in Canada,
as this Tamil-Canadian self I am.
- And you know it's real 'cause she said "Tamil."
That's when you know. "Tamil," the pronunciation, bro.
- Not the "Tah-mil," "Tamil."
- "Tamil," that's what's up. - Tamil-Canadian.
- So, it's today. - Yes.
- So I have to do something for you.
We have to celebrate "Tah-mil" New Year.
We have to celebrate Tamil New Year.
I just got schooled. - Wow, you got schooled.
That's embarrassing. - I want to ask you a question.
Can--answer on the count of three, ready?
Favorite--I'm gonna answer, too.
Favorite flavor in a drink. On the count of three, ready?
One, two, three.
both: Mango.
- That's not even--that's, like, that's a factual answer.
I'm sorry, but like-- - 100%.
- Mango is the best in ice cream, milkshakes--
- Let 'em know, let 'em know. - Dessert.
I don't know every--juice-- - Let 'em know.
- Just mango on mango. - 100%.
- Mango diced. - Hundred percent.
Let 'em know. - Exactly, mango on everything.
Mango on mango. - We're brown.
We have to love mango. I want to make some
virgin mango-- - Yes.
- Passionfruit margarita-- - Ooh, something.
- Something, something. - Yes.
- Let's go. - Let's do it, I'm down.
- Okay, we're gonna go over here to the bar.
- Fake bar.
- So tell me, how do you bring your, like,
Tamil-Canadian-ness
to set when you're on "Never Have I Ever"?
Do you bring that vibe, do you bring that flavor?
- No, 100%. I mean, like, okay.
And I know for a fact
you're gonna agree with me on this, but,
every cast and crew has a Canadian.
Every good cast and crew has a Canadian on it.
- And they're the best part. - And I'm sorry,
I don't make the rules but we--we add that flavor.
You know, that maple syrup flavor, and I used to--
like, season one, I would bring all these,
like, maple syrup candies,
like, in my pockets. - You were the stereotype?
I love that. I love that for you.
- A little bit, a little bit, yeah.
And then I would bring it over and then I would, like,
give it on set, like, "Here you go.
"Here's a little baggie of syrup candies for you.
A little baggie for you." And they're like,
"What the [bleep] is this? Like, why--"
Oh, am I allowed to say [bleep]?
- It'll just get beeped out. Do you.
- I'll get beeped out, okay.
But showed up to set on my first day with my Raptors hat.
You know, my championship hat!
- Say it again for the people in the back!
The "champ-i-ons"!
- Champions, let's go! - "Champ-i-ons"!
- Shout out to Kyle Lowry. - Six side!
- Bubble butt, let's go! - Kyle Lowry!
- VanVleet! - VanVleet!
- Yes, exactly. - All right, no big deal.
- So I showed up like that.
- I'm glad we did that because
there's some whack people on the set
that are Lakers fans. - You know,
I find their purple yellow
complimentary color contrast as cute.
- I think it's ugly, personally.
- I think it's-- let them have it.
Let them have it. Not as great as a...
nice red and black ensemble. - But I'm just saying all that
because there are Lakers fans-- Raptors all day!
Go Raptors, go! North side!
All right. Play it cool.
- We the North. - w-W-We the Nor--yeah.
We the--we the North!
North. - Oh, God.
- I'm not sure if this was sugar or salt,
but I put it in, so we're gonna see.
Um, all right, here we go.
- And you didn't tell me if you had sugar or salt.
- You know what? - So it's gonna be great.
- We gon' figure it out, here we go. Let's do it.
We gonna crush this. - Blend it.
- We gonna crush this just like
the Raptors crush all day, north side!
Oh, yeah, okay, I'll tell you what I think it was, girl,
sugar or salt.
We're gonna figure it out. - Okay, cool.
- You ready for this? - Wow.
- Check this out, boom. Oh, you know what?
No one tested this 'cause the glass is too big for the bowl.
Welcome to "A Little Late with Lilly Singh."
It does not fit in there. - Does not fit. That was--
- Hopefully, it went in a little bit.
Okay, okay! - That one wasn't bad.
- That's not that bad. Here we go.
- I'll take that one. - Okay, cool.
But check this out, you ready for this?
We do have the budget for this, though.
Dollar Tree, bro. Boom.
- I love Dollar Tree.
- Cheers. Let's have a taste. - Cheers.
- And see what happens.
I hope-- - I hope this is sugar.
- I hope it's also sugar. - Yeah.
[crew laughing]
It--it's honestly up for debate.
- There's a lot of salt on this rim.
- Yeah, yeah.
- But I don't know if there's sugar in it.
- I'm not mad though. - But I'm not upset.
- I'm not upset either. - I'm just like, "Wow."
- I'm not upset.
Okay. - We live in a society.
- I don't get to have a lot of in person guests,
so can I, like, take you to my favorite place in the house?
- Yes.
- Real talk, do you think it's salt or sugar?
I can't really tell, to be honest.