![]() Shlesinger was comic co-host of StarTalk Radio Show with Neil DeGrasse Tyson for season 7, episode 12 titled Cosmic Queries: Galactic Grab Bag on May 20, 2016. Featuring celebrity guests and personal friends, the semi-weekly podcast is a forum for discussing matters which bother her and those on the show, with a punk theme song performed by Being Mean to Pixley. She began a podcast called Truth and Iliza in August 2014. She co-starred in the 2013 film Paradise. She also hosted Excused, a syndicated American reality-based dating competition series, which ran from 2011 to 2013. Shlesinger hosted The Weakly News on from July 2007 to April 2012. Around the time of these releases, Shlesinger appeared in a business comedy video series for Slate. In 2010, she released an on-demand comedy video, Man Up and Act Like a Lady, and an on-demand comedy album, iliza LIVE, on her website, via The ConneXtion. Shlesinger worked with Lewis Black to contribute to Surviving the Holidays, a History Channel holiday special, and narrated the 2009 documentary Imagine It!² The Power of Imagination. She appeared in The Last Comic Standing Tour. She was twice selected by other comedians to compete in the head-to-head eliminations, winning each time. In 2008, Shlesinger became the first woman, and the youngest, winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing, in the series' sixth season. She has written for and had her own show on GOTV's mobile network. Her television credits include E! Network's Forbes Celebrity 100, TV Guide's America's Next Top Producer, Comedy Central Presents Season 14 Episode 18, John Oliver's New York Stand Up Show, Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed, and History Channel's History of a Joke. In 2007, Shlesinger won Myspace's So You Think You're Funny contest and has been featured as the G4 network's Myspace Girl of the Week. She was one of the most popular members of the Whiteboy Comedy group of standup comedians in Los Angeles, which brought her to the stage at The Improv in Hollywood. She transferred to Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, where she majored in film, refined her writing and editing skills, and became a member of one of the campus's comedy sketch groups, Jimmy's Traveling All Stars.Īfter graduating from college, Shlesinger moved to Los Angeles to pursue stand-up comedy. She also participated in Semester at Sea. Shlesinger performed with ComedySportz Dallas, and studied at the University of Kansas for her freshman year. She attended the private Greenhill School in Addison, Texas, where she studied Spanish and participated in the school's improvisation team. She was raised in Dallas, Texas, where her family moved when she was a baby. Iliza Vie Shlesinger was born in New York City to a Jewish family. Her sketch comedy show The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show premiered on Netflix in April 2020. As of 2022, she has released six comedy specials on Netflix. In 2017, Shlesinger hosted her own late-night talk show called Truth & Iliza on Freeform. She was the 2008 winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing and went on to host the syndicated dating show Excused and the TBS game show Separation Anxiety. Iliza Vie Shlesinger ( / ɪ ˈ l aɪ z ə ˈ ʃ l ɛ s ɪ ŋ ɡ ər/ il- EYE-zə SHLESS-ing-gər born ( )February 22, 1983) is an American comedian, actress, television host, executive producer, and screenwriter. ![]()
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