Mo Rocca
Media Gadfly & Television Personality
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Mo Rocca—contributor to Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood—is known for his off-beat news reports and satirical commentary. A former correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, he can be heard regularly on NPR's hit weekly quiz show Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me as well as All Things Considered. Creator and host of AOL's Mo Rocca 180° (www.morocca180.com), Rocca's blog provides side-splitting observations on everything from the Presidential election to pop culture news.
“I’d rather call myself a mischief-maker—an ‘imp’—rather than a satirist. ‘Satirist’ sounds so self-important. Plus, no one else is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.”
Rocca’s book All the Presidents’ Pets: The Story of One Reporter Who Refused to Roll Over is a tour-de-force of investigative journalism that blows the lid off of a long-held Washington secret: Presidential pets are more than just photo-ops. Equal parts All the President’s Men, Charlotte’s Web and The Da Vinci Code, Pets is the journalistic watershed event of the decade. Really.
The former president of Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Rocca is no stranger to the stage, where his credits include the role of Vice Principal Douglas Panch in Broadway's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and “Doody” on the Southeast Asia Tour of Grease.
“Too many Americans are lazy when it comes to studying low-brow culture. I’ve given all these shows—Punky Brewster, Webster—the thought they deserve.”
Rocca began his career in TV as a writer and producer for the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning PBS children’s series Wishbone. He went on to write and produce for other kids series, including ABC’s Pepper Ann and Nickelodeon’s The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss—a pre-school series combining the whimsy of Seuss characters with the magic of Jim Henson puppetry.
“I know a lot about a few things—mostly useless things.”
Rocca also served as consulting editor at the adult men’s magazine Perfect 10. Doing “pre-school by day and porn by night” helped prepare him for the broad range of topics he’d tackle on The Daily Show, where his eccentric profiles ranged from a man obsessed with first ladies to the point that he dresses as Florence Harding, to a husband/wife pet-mummification team.
Rocca's latest TV role is interviewing celebrities for the 5 Minutes With segment on WNBC's 1st Look New York. Rocca is a frequent guest on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Larry King Live, as well as a judge on Iron Chef America. He was a regular on the VH1 retrospective I Love the... series, served as host of Things I Hate About You and Whoa! Sunday with Mo Rocca. Rocca also once played the role of Turista #2 on telenovela Amor Descarado on Telemundo.
“I’ve been on Telemundo ’cause I’m half-Colombian. I have not been on BET, but that’s just because I’m especially pale right now.”
AT A GLANCE: A native of Washington, D.C., Mo Rocca earned a bachelor's degree at Harvard and resides in New York City. He is famed for his wacky, tongue-in-cheek “fake news” reports.
Interested in booking Mo Rocca to speak at your next event?
“I’d rather call myself a mischief-maker—an ‘imp’—rather than a satirist. ‘Satirist’ sounds so self-important. Plus, no one else is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.”
Rocca’s book All the Presidents’ Pets: The Story of One Reporter Who Refused to Roll Over is a tour-de-force of investigative journalism that blows the lid off of a long-held Washington secret: Presidential pets are more than just photo-ops. Equal parts All the President’s Men, Charlotte’s Web and The Da Vinci Code, Pets is the journalistic watershed event of the decade. Really.
The former president of Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, Rocca is no stranger to the stage, where his credits include the role of Vice Principal Douglas Panch in Broadway's The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and “Doody” on the Southeast Asia Tour of Grease.
“Too many Americans are lazy when it comes to studying low-brow culture. I’ve given all these shows—Punky Brewster, Webster—the thought they deserve.”
Rocca began his career in TV as a writer and producer for the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning PBS children’s series Wishbone. He went on to write and produce for other kids series, including ABC’s Pepper Ann and Nickelodeon’s The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss—a pre-school series combining the whimsy of Seuss characters with the magic of Jim Henson puppetry.
“I know a lot about a few things—mostly useless things.”
Rocca also served as consulting editor at the adult men’s magazine Perfect 10. Doing “pre-school by day and porn by night” helped prepare him for the broad range of topics he’d tackle on The Daily Show, where his eccentric profiles ranged from a man obsessed with first ladies to the point that he dresses as Florence Harding, to a husband/wife pet-mummification team.
Rocca's latest TV role is interviewing celebrities for the 5 Minutes With segment on WNBC's 1st Look New York. Rocca is a frequent guest on Countdown with Keith Olbermann and Larry King Live, as well as a judge on Iron Chef America. He was a regular on the VH1 retrospective I Love the... series, served as host of Things I Hate About You and Whoa! Sunday with Mo Rocca. Rocca also once played the role of Turista #2 on telenovela Amor Descarado on Telemundo.
“I’ve been on Telemundo ’cause I’m half-Colombian. I have not been on BET, but that’s just because I’m especially pale right now.”
AT A GLANCE: A native of Washington, D.C., Mo Rocca earned a bachelor's degree at Harvard and resides in New York City. He is famed for his wacky, tongue-in-cheek “fake news” reports.
Interested in booking Mo Rocca to speak at your next event?
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