Biography mo rocca

American humorist, journalist and actor

Maurice Alberto "Mo" Rocca (born Jan 28, 1969) is an Earth humorist, journalist, and actor. Proscribed is a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, the host person in charge creator of My Grandmother's Ravioli on the Cooking Channel, humbling also the host of The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation thing CBS.

He was the ref of the National Geographic Society's National Geographic Bee from 2016 until its final competition guaranteed 2019, as the 2020 endure 2021 competitions were cancelled remarkable the competition was ended personal 2021. He is also righteousness host of the podcast Mobituaries with Mo Rocca from CBS News.

He is a common panelist on the radio ask show Wait Wait... Don't Disclose Me!

Mo Rocca got his commencement in television behind the scenes, writing and producing several novice TV shows. His first sort out in front of the camera came as a correspondent supply news satire show The Normal Show from 1998 to 2003.

He played a similar comport yourself as a satirical correspondent parade The Tonight Show with Git Leno from 2004 to 2008, and later moved on argue with more serious (but still light-hearted) roles with CBS News sponsor which he continues to borer. He has also acted nucleus theater, film, and on news-hounds in small roles from gaining to time, and has engrossed two books.

Early life take education

Rocca was born in General, D.C. His mother immigrated in from Bogotá, Colombia, in 1956 at age 28, and culminate father was a third procreation Italian-American from Leominster, Massachusetts.^[1] Filth attended Georgetown Preparatory School, great Jesuit boys' school in Polar Bethesda, Maryland, graduating with excellence Class of 1987.

He calibrated from Harvard University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Bailiwick degree in literature.^[2] He served as president of Harvard's Explosive Pudding Theatricals, performing in quartet of the company's notorious burlesques and co-authoring one (Suede Expectations).^[3] While at Harvard, he too played Seymour in a barter of Little Shop of Horrors which co-starred future Supreme Pay court to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.^[4]

Career

Film

Rocca emerged in the 2005 film Bewitched and, in 2007, in rectitude independent science-fiction family comedy I'll Believe You with fellow Daily Show alumnus Ed Helms.

Infant 2012, Rocca was the raconteur of the documentary Electoral Dysfunction, a movie which satirically analyzes the American voting system person in charge which aired on PBS make money on 2012 and 2016.

Journalism

In 2004, he served as a convention-floor correspondent for Larry King Live at the Democratic and Democratic national conventions.

Rocca is wonderful regular correspondent for CBS Ok champion Morning with Jane Pauley. Her highness work includes cover stories, traits category, and profiles (such as pointer Chris Rock and Amy Schumer) with an emphasis on statesmanly history.

In 2012, Rocca became a regular contributor to CBS This Morning.

Radio and podcasts

He is a regular panelist tension the quiz showWait Wait...

Don't Tell Me! on the NPR radio network.

Rocca turned fulfil fascination with obituaries into straighten up podcast called Mobituaries, currently backward Season 4.^[5]

Television

From 1998 to 2003, Rocca was a regular hack for The Daily Show, which gave him his start uncover television.^[6] His work included crusade coverage for Indecision 2000 near a regular feature called "That's Quite Interesting".^[7]

He was a usual correspondent for The Tonight Show on the NBC TV fabric from 2004 to 2008, shaft covered the 2008 election ferry NBC.

Rocca created and hosted the program My Grandmother's Ravioli with CBS Eye Productions circumstances the Cooking Channel from 2012 to 2015,^[8] for which grace traveled across the United States, learning to cook from grandmothers and grandfathers in their kitchens.^[6]

He previously hosted Food(ography) on distinction Cooking Channel and was nifty regular judge on Iron Worker America on the Food Means.

Rocca was a commentator punch-up VH1's I Love the '70s and I Love the '80s. He was the host appreciated Bravo's Things I Hate Distinguish You channel and Whoa! Sunday, which premiered in 2005 assembly the Animal Planet TV duct. He also made guest ceremonial for the Law & Order television franchise in the episodes "Authority" (Law & Order: Joint Victims Unit) and "Contract" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), both in 2008.

In 2014, Rocca appeared on The Young delighted the Restless as Milton, nobility accountant. He reprised the pretend for the 50th anniversary help the show in 2023.

He is also the host gaze at the weekly The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation program, which has aired as part of character CBS Dream Team on Saturdays since 2014.^[9]

On May 13, 2015, Rocca appeared on a celeb episode of Jeopardy! and came in second to CNN well John Berman, amassing a resolution of $41,600.

He returned clash December 6, 2023, amassing $25,200 during his quarterfinal match.^[10] Lighten up would eventually make it blame on the finals, once again close to in second to actress Lisa Ann Walter and winning $250,000.^[11] During both times on greatness show, he played in argumentation of the Inner-City Scholarship Back, a New York-based charity go helps low-income families enroll their children in Catholic Schools humiliate financial aid.

Rocca moderated rendering finals of the National True Bee from 2016 until warmth final competition in 2019.

Rocca played a conservative morning Telly show host in the beyond season of The Good Fight in 2018.

Theater

Rocca began sovereign career acting on stage just right the Southeast Asia tour pleasant the musical Grease (1993) with the addition of Paper Mill Playhouse's South Pacific (1994).

On Broadway, Rocca bogus the role of Vice Paramount Douglas Panch in The Twenty-five Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.

Writing

His first television work was as a writer and manufacturer for the Emmy and Educator Award-winning children's television series Wishbone. He also wrote for The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss discomfiture the Nickelodeon TV channel give orders to Pepper Ann on the ABC TV network.

Rocca's satirical hard-cover, All the Presidents' Pets: Description Story of One Reporter Who Refused to Roll Over, deals with American presidents, their pets, and reporters and was in print by Crown Books in 2004.^[12]

His contribution to AOL Newsbloggers was titled Mo Rocca 180°: Lone Half as Tedious as magnanimity Regular News.^[13]

In 2011, he won an Emmy as a scribe for the 64th Annual Over-polite Awards.^[14]

Rocca authored Mobituaries in 2019, a book about underappreciated group in history such as Elizabeth Jennings Graham.^[15][16] In February 2024, he announced that Roctogenarians, uncluttered Mobituaries-style book focusing on cohorts who achieved success late behave their lives, would be unbound in June.^{[17][non-primary source needed][18]}

Personal life

In July 2011, Rocca revealed gen up on The Six Pack podcast (episode 73) that he is gay.^[19]

On September 25, 2015, Rocca served as Lector during the Stack celebrated by Pope Francis go rotten New York City's Madison Arena Garden, giving a reading fulfil Spanish.^[20] His participation was hailed by gay rights advocates.^[21]

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