-For anyone who doesn't know,
you are a very big deal on YouTube.
You have 25 million subscribers, which is no small thing.
-Thank you. And you're one? -I am one of your subscribers.
-Thank you so much. [ Cheers and applause ]
-I'm always the first to comment.
[ Laughter ] -First.
-i always write "First." That's me. That's my tag.
-So creative. -But you started in 2013,
doing Vine videos. -I did.
-Can you talk a little bit about your evolution
from that to where you are today?
-Well, I got to pour one out for Vine real quick.
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. Rest in peace.
-We miss you. [ Cheers and applause ]
Six seconds for my short attention span, man.
-Yeah. -I love the six-second videos.
-Look, as long as it got you off the ground,
I feel like Vine did what it was here to do.
-It did. It did, man. Rest in peace for now.
But, yeah, no, six seconds is how I started.
And I was just making videos in my set,
which was my living room, which was my bathroom,
which was my car. I was just screaming
in different areas of my house for six seconds at a time.
And then I transitioned over into YouTube
and started making characters and having fun on there.
-And so, with this idea of not just Vine,
but then also YouTube, was this something
that your parents had any understanding of,
when you were telling them, "Hey, I'm doing this thing
six seconds at a time, and it's going to make me a big star"?
-Aw, Seth. [ Laughter ]
I'm brown. [ Laughs ] You thought I was Hasan Minhaj
coming back out here and wearing a bun all of a sudden, yeah.
we got the whole family on this episode.
No, but I... [ Laughter ]
My dad was completely confused by what I was doing online.
Right? -Uh-huh.
-I'm making videos.
There are strangers following me.
There's a million strangers following me.
Making videos? That sounds mysterious.
So I had to clarify it to my dad, right?
He sat me down, looked at my phone,
and made me go through and delete
every single one of my followers.
Like, block each one so they would stop following me,
because, what, like, he's trying to protect me, right?
-Sure. -Being secure.
But then my dad realized, like, on a college tour,
as I was, ironically, going and seeing a college,
that another tour was following me along
and was asking to, like, take pictures of me.
And my dad realized that, "Oh, my God, what's she's doing
is having an impact on the world.
And she's doing different things."
And so he basically allowed me to continue making videos.
And he's the one -- my brown father --
who's made me academically focus my entire life,
who made me delete followers at one point,
who took away my phone,
because I wasn't studying for the S.A.T., of course.
-Yeah.
-But I had an iPod behind my mattress,
so I kept running the business back there.
[ Laughter ] -Kept making those videos, girl.
So, made me academically focus my whole life.
And I ended up moving out to L.A.
because of his blessing. -Oh, that's fantastic.
-Had the parent's support. [ Cheers and applause ]
Had the parent's support. -It is --
It's very nice to know now that even if he changes his mind,
you could never delete 25 million people.
[ Laughter ] -Nah, it takes too much time.
-Yeah, absolutely. You just --
You're obviously are close to your parents.
You just went to Italy with your family.
-One word, four syllables, Limoncello.
-All right. -It was amazing.
-You like limoncello? -Oh, I love limoncello.
It's too sweet, which is how you know it's for me.
And they actually came to our table.
And by "they," I mean a waiter came to our table
to welcome us to Italy
and gave us like four little shot glasses of this,
the nectar of the gods, I refer to as limoncello.
And I mean, being, you know, like a little frat boy
back in the day, I was like, "Oh, sweet, a shot. Boo!"
[ Laughter ]
Tossed it back and was, like, I came back up,
and my parents are just sipping very slowly, wide-eyed.
-Yeah. -And I'm like, "What --
What are you guys -- what's going on?"
My face immediately starts melting,
and I'm just feeling good, blasted drunk
for the first time with my parents.
It was awesome. -Well, I don't know.
I think you might be a lightweight
if it only took one shot of limoncello.
-Oh, yeah. Teal cheap date. -Yeah, there you go.
-Real cheap. [ Both laugh ]
-And so this is the second season of your show.
Tell us a little bit about -- -Yeah.
-What -- Basically, what's the plot of this?
-Sure. Okay. So, if you don't know the show,
it's basically diving into the gig economy, right?
So, we are so lazy nowadays. Like, this generation's insane,
because we hire personal assistants
through our phone. Your Uber?
Honey, you ordering your own personal driver.
That's what you're doing. Uber, Lyft.
Postmates, you're ordering people to come to your house
and give you these things and get things done
so that you don't have to.
So, what's the story behind that person?
What -- What's going on in their life?
And how are they doing?
So, that's basically what Liza is on "Liza on Demand."
Not too dissimilar to how I started my job on my phone.
But literally made a career
from my fingertips, from the palm of my hand.
-That's really cool. And there's --
What's been fun to watch is, you know, obviously,
you've taken this very unconventional path.
And, yet, you've also found your way
into sort of more conventional things,
including, you got to work the red carpet for the Met Ball.
-Yeah, that's right.
-Basically, Anna Wintour saw you.
[ Cheers and applause ] -Sorry?
-Anna Wintour saw you and was like --
-Anna Wintour not only saw me, she called me cute, Seth.
-She called you cute. And by the way,
you looked fantastic. -Thank you!
-Look at that. -Ah!
That's not a Strawberry Shortcake.
That's Liza Koshy. -That's Liza Koshy.
Hey, thank you so much for making time for us tonight.
Just a delight to talk to you. -Thank you so much.
-Congratulations on everything. Liza Koshy, everybody.