Although the show will be aimed at a black audience, Thede, who is also serving as the show’s executive producer alongside Chris Rock, said she hopes the show will resonate with a wide range of audiences.

“You get the natural thing of there’s no other black woman in late night! But that’s not enough to carry a show—but it absolutely will help; it’s not going to be a hindrance, I’ll say that. You essentially have seven guys doing a version of the same show, so you have a handful of networks not addressing 55% of the audience,” she told The Hollywood Reporter.

Thede continued:

It’s odd. That’s not even counting color or ethnicity. I like all those guys, but find it really hard to believe. Here’s the weird thing—and it’s a network thing—all those guys are great, but are seven white guys funnier before you get to any woman or a Latino? I don’t think so. By the time they offer something to someone who is a minority, they’re too big for the job. That’s the problem. They never really take a shot with new talent when it comes to a woman or a minority.

This will be the first time a black woman has hosted a late-night show since Mo’Nique helmed a show on BET, which ran from 2009 to 2011. But Thede isn’t the first black woman to host a show in the late-night slot (a space that has for decades been dominated by white men): Wanda Sykes hosted a weekly program on Fox and Whoopi Goldberg had a syndicated program in the mid-1990s, according to Variety.

After Samantha Bee, Thede also becomes only the second woman late-night host currently on the air. It’s a dismal commentary on diversity in TV, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction.