Shlesinger became the first female and the youngest winner of NBC's Last Comic Standing in the series' sixth season. She appeared in "The Last Comic Standing Tour".
She is the first woman to win Last Comic Standing. She was twice chosen by other comedians to compete in head to head eliminations and won both times. She is the host for Weakly News on TheStream.
She attended the University of Kansas for her freshman year. She then transferred to Emerson College in Boston and majored in Film Studies.
There she was a member of the campus' second favorite comedy group Jimmy's Traveling All Stars and refined her writing and editing skills.
