Lilly Singh Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions

Hey, how's it going?

I'm Lilly Singh and you're watching

the Wired Autocomplete Interview.

Oh, yeah.

[upbeat music]

What if I hit the camera and it fell?

Thank you, all right.

When is Lilly Singh's birthday?

Oh easy!

September 26th.

Yes, I will take gifts.

Who is Lilly Singh replacing on NBC?

I am replacing Carson Daly.

A lot of people have thought it's Jimmy Fallon

or Seth Meyers, or James Corden.

It's none of those white men.

It is the other white man, Carson Daly,

who has been very sweet and supportive, I need to say.

Lilly Singh, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

Oh, I know what this is.

The highlight of my life was being a question

on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

It was something along the lines of

Who is a really sexy YouTuber that's very talented?

I'm paraphrasing, and the answer was me.

[laughs]

What is Lilly Singh's favorite color?

'Kay, this is the whole thing because I like pink.

Yellow makes me very happy,

but I feel like I get judged for liking pink

because it's suppose to be girly.

And then I'm also conflicted

because I don't wanna hurt any of

the other color's feelings.

This question stresses me out.

What is Lilly Singh's real name?

Lilly Singh's real name is Lilly Singh.

I know what you're thinking.

It's too short for an Indian person and you're racist.

Okay, it's just Lilly Singh.

It's not Inder, Pinder, Jeet,

nothing, just Lilly Singh is what it is.

What does Lilly Singh's tattoo say?

Ooh, I have five.

One is this heart

and then I have this says Without Fear,

this is Without Hate.

On my ankle, I didn't put lotion on,

but you can't see it.

There's a staircase that's on every chapter of my book.

It's essentially just means like keep climbing,

keep working, stay grounded.

And then I have this.

Should I just take my clothes off?

Right here is One Love.

Can you see it?

Can you see it?

It says One Love, which is my favorite Bob Marley song

and my general mantra for life.

What movies has Lilly Singh been in?

I've made small cameos in Ice Age: Collision Course,

in Bad Moms, and in Fahrenheit 451.

More to come, hopefully.

Casting directors.

What Lilly Singh character are you?

A lot of my house is filled with

beards and wigs is why I'm single.

I do a lot of characters.

I dress up as my mom and my dad.

Then there's Jessica, then there's Samuel,

then there's Lalinder, then there's a little Lilly.

And there's a Buzzfeed quiz

about which character are you?

I think I got, I think shockingly I didn't get myself.

I think I might've gotten my mom once.

It's true what they say, you just turn into your parents.

This is a whole,

someone make an appointment with my therapist.

What is Lilly Singh's phone number?

[mimics munching]

Okay, okay.

I mean, it depends, we'll see.

Why is Lilly Singh [laughs]?

That's the whole thing.

Because, I don't know.

Why is Lilly?

I don't know, I just am.

In 1988, two immigrants from India came to Canada.

It was a drunken night, things happened.

They probably didn't know how to do it

because they've been suppressed their entire life

because such is Indian culture.

And then I came into existence.

That is why Lilly Singh.

Why is Lilly Singh called Superwoman?

Ah, great question.

So, I named myself Superwoman in 2010

when I created my YouTube channel,

clearly thinking it wouldn't go anywhere

because calling yourself a trademarked DC name

is not the smartest business move.

But it just felt really empowering to me.

It was based off a hip hop song by Lil' Mo and Fabulous.

But I recently dropped that and I go by Lilly now,

which is my fake name.

Why is Lilly Singh a hero [gasps]?

I mean, you tell me.

I guess we're all our own superheros.

I think I'm a superhero because if I had to pick one thing,

I think I have a pretty great work ethic.

I think that makes me a superhero.

Why is Lilly Sing so popular [huffs]?

Beats me [laughs].

I think I started making YouTube videos at a time

when no one else that looks like me did

and I was talking about things

that no one else was from my community.

I think a lot of people can relate to that.

Also, I have great hair.

So, even if I'm not funny,

people don't really mind.

Is Lilly Singh married to The Rock?

No, I'm not married to The Rock,

not in this lifetime, at least.

But, he has been a great mentor to me.

He was my idol growing up, absolutely obsessed.

I had the opportunity to meet him.

I'm grateful enough to say that we're friends now

and he gives me advice during my most trying times.

Is Lilly Singh back on YouTube?

This makes me sad.

Did I leave YouTube?

I did take a break from social media the end of last year.

And I guess I don't have as regimented as a schedule,

so people might think I left YouTube.

But, I've not left YouTube.

I am very passionate about the community,

even with my new late night show,

it's important to me to continue

uploading whenever I can on YouTube

because I love that community

and that fan base so, so much.

Is Lilly Singh a vegetarian?

I am, I am vegetarian, not be confused with vegan.

I respect vegans but I feel like not enough people

know the difference between vegans and vegetarians.

So, I don't eat meat, but cheese and stuff I still do

because I like happiness [laughs].

Is Lilly Singh in F the Prom?

Oh, yeah.

I am in F the Prom.

This was produced by the Fine bros.

They graciously asked me to cameo

as a teacher in this movie.

It is on Netflix.

So, I guess from the pervious question

of which movies you were in,

I'm an idiot and I forgot this one.

Is Lilly Singh in Stranger Things?

What?

Oh, okay, I understand why you'd

be confused between me and Demogorgon.

We look very similar.

I look as similar as that flower monster thing,

but I'm not in Stranger Things.

I think the reason this is here is

because I'm good friends with Noah,

who was the little boy that gets abducted

into the Upside Down.

I guess I also have chilled with Milly a lot

so maybe I have a lot of friends in Stranger Things

and by association you think that.

But, no, I'm not cool enough to be in Stranger Things.

Is Lilly Singh related to Humble The Poet?

I know this is very confusing because he has

a turban and beard and he's also brown.

We're not related, we're just friends.

Also, important to know that every person

you see with a beard and turban is not humble.

They're different people, just all wearing a turban.

Wee.

Does Lilly Singh have a sister?

I do, I have an older sister.

Her name is Tina.

She's six years older than me.

She has three adorable baby boys, who are my nephews.

I followed her footsteps when I got my psychology degree.

Years later, she followed in my steps to be on YouTube.

So, full circle moment.

Where did Lilly Singh come from?

I am originally from Toronto,

which is in Ontario, which is in Canada.

I guess that's what that question means.

For some reason, my first instinct

was to say, an egg like Yoshi.

I don't know why, but that's not where I came from.

Where does Lilly Singh live?

I currently live in L.A., in Hollywood

and I moved there in 2015.

But most the time I live in Unicorn Island.

Does Lilly Sing speak French?

Do I.

[speaks French]

Yes, I do speak French.

I'm from Canada.

I learned French all the way up until grade 10

and thus I know how to solely

order a pizza and nothing else.

I don't know how to ask for help.

I don't know how to say I'm hurt.

I don't know how to ask for directions.

But, I can order a pizza and also I know circus terms.

Where did Lilly Singh go to college?

So, I actually went to university.

And before you comment below saying,

You're so pretentious.

Why are you making this correction?

In Canada, it's different,

college and university is different.

I went to York University in North York

and I was part of the dance team there

and our chant was, Deep in the heart of York U jungle,

you can hear the lions rumble [hoots], Y-U, Y-U.

We never won a competition.

How tall is Lilly Singh in feet?

I'm five foot, five inches.

Is that?

I think so.

On a good day, five foot, five inches.

I'm really lying.

I'm really short, but I keep saying five foot five.

On dating apps I was five foot five.

Whatever, it's fine, no one's gonna know.

Is this going public?

How old is Lilly Singh now [laughs]?

I'm 25, 26.

I'm 30.

How many subscribers does Lilly Singh have?

On my main channel, I'm grateful to say

I have 15 million subscribers.

And on my second channel,

I believe I have around three million.

So, across both channels, it would be 18 million.

Subtracting all the fake accounts

that are just me, five million.

We're self-aware.

Lilly Singh How to Be a Bawse PDF.

Oh, How to Be a Bawse is the book I launched,

published, I think, two, three-ish years ago.

I'm grateful to say it was a New York Times Best Seller.

It is a guide on how not to survive life, but conquer life.

And it's one of my greatest accomplishments,

because, yo, it's like really hard to write a book.

Can we just take a moment?

It's very hard.

I wrote every word.

It took a year from my birthday to my birthday,

because I like to torture myself.

I wrote this book.

It's 50 chapters and I'm very, very proud of it.

And like I said, it's not about jut surviving with,

it's about conquering.

So, one of the chapters is about don't just pay your bills,

save up enough to go on vacation.

Some of my favorite excerpts from the book

are embedded into the intro to my late night show

in that fast text that's scrolling through.

So, if you wanna pause and find some Easter eggs

if you care, then that's a thing that's cool [squeaks].

That's an exclusive for The Wire.

That's an exclusive, no one else knows that.

Got you.

Lilly Singh, how to make a sandwich [laughs].

This is one of my favorite videos.

I made a video a while ago when I first moved to L.A.

called How to Make a Sandwich.

And it was inspired by the good amount of sexist comments

I've gotten over my YouTube career that would say,

Women aren't funny.

Go back to the kitchen, make a sandwich.

As we know, this is a very common thing

that is said to women.

So, I made an actual tutorial on how to make a sandwich

because so many people didn't know how to make one.

But it's a very sassy video

where I'm basically roasting

the person that left the comment.

One love, we love everyone.

But, you know, light-hearted fun never hurt nobody.

I learned a lot today.

I learned that no matter thousands of videos

I have on the internet,

people still don't know my real name.

It's in my intro and then I say it.

And then I say it with outro.

I think people might not know things about me.

That's all [laughs].