Mo Rocca Biography
Mo Rocca is a comedian, journalist, and actor from the United States working as the CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, the host and creator of My Grandmother’s Ravioli on the Cooking Channel, and the host of CBS’s The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation.
How old is Mo Rocca? – Age
He is 52 years old as of 28 January 2021. He was born Maurice Alberto Rocca in 1969 in Washington, D.C., United States.
Where did Mo Rocca attend college? – Family – Education
Rocca’s mother arrived from Bogotá, Colombia in 1956, when he was 28 years old, and his father was a third-generation Italian-American from Leominster, Massachusetts. In North Bethesda, Maryland, he attended Georgetown Preparatory School, a Jesuit boys’ school. He earned a bachelor of arts in literature from Harvard University in 1991.
Mo Rocca Spouse
Rocca revealed his sexual orientation on The Six Pack podcast (episode 73) in July 2011. Gay rights activists applauded his attendance at Pope Francis’s September 2015 Mass in Madison Square Garden.
Mo Rocca Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $3 Million.
Is Mo Rocca still making Mobituaries?
Rocca turned his interest in obituaries into a podcast called “Mobituaries,” which is currently in its second season. In 2019, Rocca published Mobituaries, a book about underappreciated people in history such as Elizabeth Jennings Graham, based on his “Mobituaries” podcast.
Mo Rocca Career
Rocca began his career acting on stage in the Southeast Asia tour of the musical Grease in 1993)and Paper Mill Playhouse’s South Pacific in 1994. His first television work was as a writer and producer for the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning children’s television series Wishbone. He also wrote for The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss on the Nickelodeon TV channel and Pepper Ann on the ABC TV network. In 2011, he won an Emmy as a writer for the 64th Annual Tony Awards.
From 1998 to 2003, Rocca was a regular correspondent for The Daily Show, which gave him his start in television. His work included campaign coverage for Indecision 2000 and a regular feature called “That’s Quite Interesting”. In 2004, he served as a convention-floor correspondent for Larry King Live at the Democratic and Republican national conventions. He was a regular correspondent for The Tonight Show on the NBC TV network from 2004 to 2008 and covered the 2008 election for NBC.
Rocca is a regular correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley. His work includes cover stories, features, and profiles with an emphasis on presidential history. He is a regular panelist on the quiz show Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! on the NPR radio network. In 2012, Rocca became a regular contributor to the then-new CBS This Morning.
Rocca created, and since its debut in 2012 has hosted, the program My Grandmother’s Ravioli on the Cooking Channel,[11] for which he travels across the United States, learning to cook from grandmothers and grandfathers in their kitchens. He previously hosted Food(ography) on the Cooking Channel and was a regular judge on Iron Chef America on the Food Network.
Rocca was a commentator on VH1’s I Love the ’70s and I Love the ’80s. He was the host of Bravo’s Things I Hate About You channel and Whoa! Sunday, which premiered in 2005 on the Animal Planet TV channel. He also made guest appearances for the Law & Order television franchise in the episodes “Authority” (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) and “Contract” (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), both in 2008. He is also the host of the weekly The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation program, which has aired as part of the CBS Dream Team on Saturdays since 2014. On September 25, 2015, Rocca served as Lector during the Mass celebrated by Pope Francis at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
On Broadway, Rocca played the role of Vice Principal Douglas Panch in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. He appeared in the 2005 film Bewitched and, in 2007, in the independent science-fiction family comedy I’ll Believe You with fellow Daily Show alumnus Ed Helms. In 2012, Rocca was the narrator of the documentary Electoral Dysfunction, a movie that satirically analyzes the American voting system and which aired on PBS in 2012 and 2016.
He shared on social media a scripture reading (in Spanish) that he delivered while serving as Lector during Pope Francis’s 2015 Mass at Madison Square Garden. His contribution to AOL Newsbloggers was titled Mo Rocca 180°: Only Half as Tedious as the Regular News.
On May 13, 2015, Rocca appeared on a celebrity episode of Jeopardy! and came in second to CNN correspondent John Berman, amassing a total of $41,600. Rocca began moderating the finals of the National Geographic Bee in 2016. Soledad O’Brien preceded him and Alex Trebek preceded O’Brien. Rocca played a conservative morning TV show host in the second season of The Good Fight.
Rocca created and hosts the Cooking Channel program My Grandmother’s Ravioli, for which he travels across the United States, learning to cook from grandmothers and grandfathers in their kitchens. He previously hosted Food(ography) on the Cooking Channel and was a regular judge on Food Network’s Iron Chef America.
Rocca appeared as a commentator on VH1’s I Love the ’70s and I Love the ’80s shows. He hosted Bravo’s Things I Hate About You channel and Whoa! Sunday, which debuted on the Animal Planet TV channel in 2005. He also appeared as a guest star on the Law & Order television series in the episodes “Authority” and “Contract,” both of which aired in 2008. He also hosts The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation, a weekly program that has aired as part of the CBS Dream Team on Saturdays since 2014. On September 25, 2015, Rocca served as Lector at Pope Francis’ Mass at New York City’s Madison Square Garden.
Rocca appeared on Broadway in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee as Vice Principal Douglas Panch. Rocca co-starred with fellow Daily Show alumnus Ed Helms in the 2005 film Bewitched and in the 2007 independent science-fiction family comedy I’ll Believe You. Rocca narrated the documentary Electoral Dysfunction in 2012, a satirical examination of the American voting system that aired on PBS in 2012 and 2016.
He posted on social media a scripture reading he delivered as Lector at Pope Francis’ 2015 Mass at Madison Square Garden. Mo Rocca 180°: Only Half as Tedious as the Regular News was his contribution to AOL Newsbloggers.
Rocca appeared on a celebrity episode of Jeopardy! on May 13, 2015, and finished second to CNN correspondent John Berman, earning a total of $41,600. Rocca began moderating the National Geographic Bee finals in 2016. Soledad O’Brien came before him, and Alex Trebek came after him. Soledad O’Brien came before him, and Alex Trebek came before O’Brien. In the second season of The Good Fight, Rocca portrayed a conservative morning TV show host.
