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Ella Yurman | |
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| Born | 1999 (age 26–27)[1] |
| Occupations | Talk show host, comedian, writer |
| Known for | Gen Z influencer |
| Notable work | Late Night Live! With Ella Yurman |
Ella Yurman is an American talk show host, writer and comedian, known for hosting Late Stage Live! With Ella Yurman and Going Down with Ella Yurman, as well as for her 2025 interview of Vivian Wilson for Teen Vogue.
Yurman has been cited as a prominent gen z influencer by Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue and Jezebel. Her interview of Wilson earned Yurman a GLAAD Award nomination in 2026 for outstanding journalism.
Talk shows
[edit]Late Stage Live! With Ella Yurman is a queer volunteer-run monthly show focusing on current events and politics for a primarily gen Z audience.[2] The structure of the show follows the orthodox format set by The Late Show;[3][4] it opens with a monologue from Yurman, followed by a guest segment, and has a rapid-fire, irreverent tone throughout.[2] The show is filmed at Brooklyn Information & Culture, airs on Brooklyn Public Access,[3] and episodes are published on YouTube for free.[2]
Before creating the show, Yurman was writing for YouTube series Some More News,[5] and thought "there’s only so much I could be doing as a writer in a room writing for yet another cishet white guy".[4] She was inspired to start the show having noticed there were no trans late night talk show hosts, or prominent trans commentators on politics.[2] She approached playwright and comic Reid Pope and comedy writer Rima Parikh, whom she knew from New York stand up comedy circles, to write for the show.[2] Neither Yurman nor head writer Pope had any prior experience in television production.[4]
I went and worked on a friend’s live show that was all volunteer run and was fully live-streamed out to the public and it was crazy — this huge day, messy, chaotic. I had so much fun doing it and the big realization for me was that you can just do stuff in Brooklyn once you know enough comedians and artists. People are willing to collaboratively work on one big project, which was a big revelation for me because Reid and I both come from standup backgrounds and standup is such a solitary art form.
Guests who have appeared on Late Stage Live show include New York City Councilmember Chi Ossé in October 2024.[2] Topics covered include the marijuana industry and prison abolition, and it has a left-wing perspective with anti-capitalism and Palestinian liberation principles.[3]
Yurman also hosts Going Down with Ella Yurman, described as a "very good YouTube news series" by New York magazine's The Cut in 2025.[6]
Interview of Vivian Wilson
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Yurman interviewed Vivian Wilson for Teen Vogue as the cover story for its March 2025 issue.[7][8] The interview quickly went viral on social media, and was covered by The New York Times,[9] New York magazine's The Cut,[6] highlighted as a great read by Politico,[10] and included by Salon.com in its list of "the 7 best takedowns of a chaotic 2025" for its impact on the public image of Elon Musk, Wilson's disowned father.[8]
Yurman remarked to The New York Times of the interview that "I think a lot of coverage of trans people these days, even high-profile trans people, ends up centering their transness so much that it reduces them to two-dimensional figures without interiority. Most of all, I wanted this piece to give Vivian a chance to be herself in front of the world."[9] The interview was nominated for the 37th GLAAD Media Awards in 2026 in the category Outstanding Online or Print Journalism Article in 2026.[11]
Public image and reception
[edit]In a 2024 article, Jezebel called Yurman "a generational talent with the sort of stage presence and charisma that make her one to watch".[3] She was cited as a prominent gen Z influencer by Cosmopolitan in 2025.[1] She has also been featured in The New York Times,[9] Politico,[10] and Teen Vogue.[2]
Yurman has publicly spoken out about the negative online attention she has received, in a 2025 interview with Cosmopolitan: "My work sits at a very specific intersection of political journalism, late-night comedy, and being a transgender woman online, an intersection that attracts some of the worst, meanest, most unpleasant kinds of attention you can possibly attract—from all across the internet, from all sides of the political spectrum."[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 Goodman, Jessica (October 20, 2025). "Introducing Cosmopolitan's 2025 Z-Stars". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Fusco, Stevie (October 22, 2024). "Late Stage Live! With Ella Yurman Wants to Be the Next Daily Show — But Make It LGBTQ+". Teen Vogue. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 Abrams, Leah (May 30, 2024). "Late Night Gets a Much-Needed Queer Makeover With 'Late Stage Live!'". Jezebel.com. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- 1 2 3 4 Factora, James (July 16, 2024). "From a Tiny Studio in Brooklyn, Late Stage Live! Is Queering Late Night". Them. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- ↑ "Ella Yurman". Teen Vogue. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- 1 2 "100 Days, 100 Small Victories: The political wins, works of art, and acts of defiance bringing us relief, joy, and even hope under Trump 2.0". The Cut. April 30, 2025. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- ↑ Yurman, Ella (March 20, 2025). "Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online". Teen Vogue. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- 1 2 Zeisler, Andi (December 12, 2025). "The 7 best takedowns of a chaotic 2025". Salon.com. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- 1 2 3 Van Syckle, Katie; Hoffman, Benjamin (March 21, 2025). "An Interview With Elon Musk's Daughter Was Months in the Making". The New York Times. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- 1 2 Wren, Adam (March 22, 2025). "The rival Biden forgot". Politico. Retrieved October 1, 2026.
- ↑ Wade, Jessie (March 6, 2026). "Stranger Things, Heated Rivalry Among Winners at 37th Annual GLAAD Media Awards". IGN.com. Retrieved October 1, 2026.