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Iliza Vie Shlesinger[1] (/əˈlaɪzə ˈʃlɛsɪŋɡər/;[2][3] born (1983-02-22)February 22, 1983)[4] is an American comedian, actress, television host, executive producer, and screenwriter. 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 Shlesinger
Shlesinger in 2017 on stage
Born	(1983-02-22) February 22, 1983 (age 39) New York City, U.S.
Alma mater	Emerson College
Occupation	Comedian actress television host screenwriter executive producer
Spouse	Noah Galuten ​ (m. 2018)​
Children	1

In 2017, Shlesinger hosted her own late-night talk show called Truth & Iliza on Freeform.[5] As of 2022, she has released six comedy specials on Netflix. Her sketch comedy show The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show premiered on Netflix in April 2020.

Early life

Iliza Vie Shlesinger was born in New York City to a Jewish family.[6] She was raised in Dallas, Texas, where her family moved when she was a baby.[6][7] She attended the private Greenhill School in Addison, Texas, where she studied Spanish and participated in the school's improvisation team.

Shlesinger performed with ComedySportz Dallas, and studied at the University of Kansas for her freshman year. She also participated in Semester at Sea. 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.

Career

After graduating from college, Shlesinger moved to Los Angeles to pursue stand-up comedy.[8] She was one of the most popular members of the Whiteboy Comedy group of standup comedians in Los Angeles,[9] which brought her to the stage at The Improv in Hollywood.[10]

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. 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,[11] Byron Allen's Comics Unleashed, and History Channel's History of a Joke. She has written for Heavy.com and had her own show on GOTV's mobile network.

In 2008, Shlesinger became the first woman, and the youngest, winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing, in the series' sixth season.[12][13] She was twice selected by other comedians to compete in the head-to-head eliminations, winning each time.[14] She appeared in The Last Comic Standing Tour.[15]

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.[16][17] 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. Around the time of these releases, Shlesinger appeared in a business comedy video series for Slate.[18]

Shlesinger hosted The Weakly News on TheStream.tv from July 2007 to April 2012.[19][20] She also hosted Excused, a syndicated American reality-based dating competition series, which ran from 2011 to 2013.[21] She co-starred in the 2013 film Paradise.[22] She began a podcast called Truth and Iliza in August 2014. Featuring celebrity guests and personal friends, the semi-weekly podcast is a forum for discussing matters which bother her and those on the show,[23] with a punk theme song performed by Being Mean to Pixley.[24]

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.[25]

On July 13, 2016, the ABCdigital original short-form digital comedy series Forever 31, which was created by, written by, executive produced by, and starring Shlesinger was released.[26]

A late night show for Shlesinger was placed into development in September 2016 for the cable channel Freeform.[27] Truth & Iliza began airing on May 2, 2017, and ran for six episodes.[28]

On November 7, 2017, Weinstein Books published Shlesinger's book Girl Logic: The Genius and the Absurdity with an introduction by Mayim Bialik.[29]

In December 2017, it was reported Shlesinger was sued by a man who was denied admission to one of her girls-only shows.[30] The initial complaint was dismissed and then refiled as a class action suit.[31]

Netflix

Shlesinger's first comedy album and video, War Paint, was recorded on December 1, 2012, at The Lakewood Theater in Dallas, Texas, and released on Netflix on September 1, 2013.[32][33] Her second stand-up special, Freezing Hot, was recorded in Denver, Colorado, and premiered on Netflix on January 23, 2015.[34] Her third Netflix stand-up special, titled Confirmed Kills, was recorded at The Vic Theatre in Chicago, Illinois, and premiered on Netflix on September 23, 2016.[35] Her fourth Netflix stand-up special, Elder Millennial,[36] was recorded aboard USS Hornet, at the USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum[37] in Alameda, California on February 23, 2018,[38][39] and premiered on Netflix on July 24, 2018.[40] Her fifth Netflix stand-up special, Unveiled was recorded in Nashville and premiered on Netflix on Nov 19, 2019.[41]

Shlesinger also stars in the March 2020 Netflix film Spenser Confidential and The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show, which premiered April 1, 2020.

Released on Netflix on January 7, 2021, following its world premiere on September 4, 2020, at the 77th Venice International Film Festival, Shlesinger played Anita Weiss in Pieces of a Woman, the sister to Martha, the main character. She starred, wrote, an executive produced the romantic comedy film Good on Paper, which premiered on Netflix on June 23, 2021.

Her stand-up comedy special Iliza Shlesinger: Hot Forever premiered on Netflix in October 2022.[42]

Personal life

On May 12, 2018, Shlesinger married chef Noah Galuten in a Jewish ceremony in Los Angeles.[43][44] They had a daughter in 2022.[45]

Works

Comedy specials

Year	Title	Distributor
2013	War Paint	Netflix
2015	Freezing Hot	Netflix
2016	Confirmed Kills	Netflix
2018	Elder Millennial	Netflix
2019	Unveiled	Netflix
2022	Iliza Shlesinger: Hot Forever	Netflix

Series

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2016	Forever 31	Veronica	Mini-series. Stars, also creator, written by, and executive producer.
2017	Girlboss	Veronica	Episode: "Top 8"
2020	The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show	Various roles
2020	Crank Yankers	Herself	Episode: "Adam Carolla, Iliza Schlesinger & Demetri Martin"
2020	Robot Chicken	Dr. Liz Wilson / Realtor	Voice role; episode: "Max Caenen In: Why Would He Know If His Mother's a Size Queen"
2021	Bosch	IA Lt. Kristine Klotz	Episode: "Workaround"
2022	Dollface	Herself	Episode: "Space Cadet”

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2013	Paradise	Carol
2018	Instant Family	October
2019	Iliza Shlesinger: Over And Over	Self	Documentary
2020	Spenser Confidential	Cissy
	Pieces of a Woman	Anita Weiss
	The Opening Act	Val
2021	The Right One	Kelly
	Hysterical	Herself	Documentary film
	Good on Paper	Andrea Singer	Stars. Also written by, and executive producer.
	Supercool	Victoria

References

External links

• Official website
• Iliza Shlesinger's channel on YouTube
• Iliza Shlesinger at IMDb
• Iliza Shlesinger at OkeyBlogging

На других языках

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[de] Iliza Shlesinger

Iliza Shlesinger (* 22. Februar 1983 in New York City) ist eine US-amerikanische Stand-up-Komikerin, Moderatorin und Schauspielerin. Sie hat als einzige weibliche und auch jüngste Stand-up-Komikerin die NBC-Castingshow Last Comic Standing gewonnen. Das Männermagazin Esquire listet sie als eine der besten Komikerinnen der USA.[1][2]

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- [en] Iliza Shlesinger

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[ru] Шлезингер, Элайза

Элайза Ви Шлезингер (англ. Iliza Vie Shlesinger, ʃlɛsɪnɡər) — американский стендап-комик[2], победительница шестого сезона шоу Last Comic Standing  (англ.) (рус. на телеканале NBC[3]. Создательница веб-сериала Forever 31 на ABC[4]. В настоящее время — ведущая собственного вечернего ток-шоу  (англ.) (рус. на Freeform[5].

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