1. Maurice Alberto "Mo" Rocca was born on January 28,1969 and is an American humorist, journalist, and actor.
36 Facts About Mo Rocca
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Mo Rocca is a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, the host and creator of My Grandmother's Ravioli on the Cooking Channel, and the host of The Henry Ford's Innovation Nation on CBS.
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Mo Rocca was the moderator of the National Geographic Society's National Geographic Bee from 2016 until its final competition in 2019, as the 2020 and 2021 competitions were cancelled and the competition was ended in 2021.
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Mo Rocca is the host of the podcast Mobituaries with Mo Rocca from CBS News.
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Mo Rocca is a regular panelist on the radio quiz show Wait Wait.
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Mo Rocca got his start in television behind the scenes, writing and producing several children's TV shows.
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Mo Rocca played a similar role as a satirical correspondent for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno from 2004 to 2008, and later moved on to more serious roles with CBS News for which he continues to work.
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Mo Rocca has acted in theater, film, and on television in small roles from time to time, and has written two books.
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Mo Rocca was born in Washington, DC His mother immigrated there from Bogota, Colombia, in 1956 at age 28, and his father was a third generation Italian-American from Leominster, Massachusetts.
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Mo Rocca attended Georgetown Preparatory School, a Jesuit boys' school in North Bethesda, Maryland, graduating with the Class of 1987.
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Mo Rocca graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in literature.
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Mo Rocca served as president of Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals, performing in four of the company's notorious burlesques and co-authoring one.
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Mo Rocca 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.
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In 2012, Mo Rocca was the narrator of the documentary Electoral Dysfunction, a movie which satirically analyzes the American voting system and which aired on PBS in 2012 and 2016.
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Mo Rocca is a regular correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley.
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Mo Rocca's work includes cover stories, features, and profiles with an emphasis on presidential history.
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In 2012, Mo Rocca became a regular contributor to CBS This Morning.
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Mo Rocca is a regular panelist on the quiz show Wait Wait.
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Mo Rocca turned his fascination with obituaries into a podcast called Mobituaries, currently on Season 4.
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From 1998 to 2003, Mo Rocca was a regular correspondent for The Daily Show, which gave him his start in television.
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Mo Rocca's work included campaign coverage for Indecision 2000 and a regular feature called "That's Quite Interesting".
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Mo Rocca was a regular correspondent for The Tonight Show on the NBC TV network from 2004 to 2008, and covered the 2008 election for NBC.
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Mo Rocca created and hosted the program My Grandmother's Ravioli with CBS Eye Productions on the Cooking Channel from 2012 to 2015, for which he traveled across the United States, learning to cook from grandmothers and grandfathers in their kitchens.
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Mo Rocca previously hosted Food on the Cooking Channel and was a regular judge on Iron Chef America on the Food Network.
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Mo Rocca was a commentator on VH1's I Love the '70s and I Love the '80s.
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In 2014, Mo Rocca appeared on The Young and the Restless as Milton, the accountant.
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Mo Rocca reprised the role for the 50th anniversary of the show in 2023.
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Mo Rocca is 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.
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Mo Rocca returned on December 6,2023, amassing $25,200 during his quarterfinal match.
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Mo Rocca moderated the finals of the National Geographic Bee from 2016 until its final competition in 2019.
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Mo Rocca played a conservative morning TV show host in the second season of The Good Fight in 2018.
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Mo Rocca began his career acting on stage in the Southeast Asia tour of the musical Grease and Paper Mill Playhouse's South Pacific.
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On Broadway, Mo Rocca played the role of Vice Principal Douglas Panch in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
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Mo Rocca authored Mobituaries in 2019, a book about underappreciated people in history such as Elizabeth Jennings Graham.
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In July 2011, Mo Rocca revealed on The Six Pack podcast that he is gay.
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On September 25,2015, Mo Rocca served as Lector during the Mass celebrated by Pope Francis at New York City's Madison Square Garden, giving a reading in Spanish.