Mo Rocca Bio
My Grandmother's Ravioli host Mo Rocca is best known for his off-beat news reports and satirical commentary. Currently a Correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning News with Charles Osgood, he’s also a panelist on NPR's hit weekly quiz show Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me! and the host of Foodography on the Cooking Channel. Mo spent four seasons as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and four seasons as a correspondent on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
The former president and author of Harvard University's Hasty Pudding Show, Mo is no stranger to the stage, where his credits include the roles of Vice Principal Douglas Panch in Broadway’s The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Doody on the Southeast Asia Tour of Grease.
Mo 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. He is the author of All the Presidents' Pets: The Story of One Reporter Who Refused to Roll Over.
A native of Washington, D.C., Mo earned a bachelor’s degree at Harvard and resides in New York City.
You can catch Mo on My Grandmother's Ravioli and Food(ography).