Over the past three decades, Mo Rocca has worked in television, radio, on stage and in podcasts - as a journalist, humorist, actor and author. He is best known today as an Emmy-winning correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, the host of the Mobituaries podcast, and a long-time panelist on NPR’s hit weekly quiz show Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!

He got his start in television as a writer and producer on the Peabody Award-winning PBS children's series Wishbone. On-camera he was a correspondent for *The Daily Show *with Jon Stewart for four seasons. As creator and host of Cooking Channel’s My Grandmother’s Ravioli, he traveled the country learning to cook from America’s grandparents and hearing their personal stories.

Rocca is co-author of 2019's Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving and 2024's Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks and Triumphs - both of them New York Times best sellers - and the author of the 2004 historical thriller All the Presidents’ Pets: The Story of One Reporter who Refused to Roll Over.

On Broadway he starred in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Other stage credits include Doody in the Southeast Asia tour of Grease.