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Posted: 2019-07-25T20:24:02Z | Updated: 2019-07-25T20:24:39Z

When her show premieres on NBC in September, Canadian comedian Lilly Singh will be the only woman to host a current late-night show on one of the four major broadcast TV networks and among only a handful of women, people of color and LGBTQ people who have hosted a late-night show.

Her upcoming show, A Little Late with Lilly Singh, will be notable for another reason: It will be the only current late-night show to have a gender-equal team of writers. Singhs writers room will include Sean OConnor, Marina Cockenberg, Sergio Serna, Mona Mira, Jen Burton and Jonathan Giles three women and three men NBC announced Thursday.

The shows gender parity is rare in the world of late-night comedy, which is still largely a boys club as dramatized in the recent movie Late Night, starring Emma Thompson as a late-night TV host and Mindy Kaling as her shows only female writer.