Film 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. In 2012, 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.
Journalism '' reception at Octavia Books in Uptown New Orleans (2010) In 2004, he served as a convention-floor correspondent for
Larry King Live at the Democratic and Republican national conventions. Rocca has been a regular correspondent for
CBS Sunday Morning with
Jane Pauley since 2012. His work includes cover stories, features, and profiles (such as of
Chris Rock and
Amy Schumer) with an emphasis on presidential history.
Radio and podcasts He is a regular panelist on the
quiz show ''
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!'' on the
NPR radio network. Rocca turned his fascination with obituaries into a podcast called
Mobituaries, currently on Season 4.
Television 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". 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 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. 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. He returned on December 6, 2023, amassing $25,200 during his quarterfinal match. He would eventually make it to the finals, once again coming in second to actress
Lisa Ann Walter and winning $250,000. During both times on the show, he played in support of the Inner-City Scholarship Fund, a New York-based charity that helps low-income families enroll their children in
Catholic Schools through financial aid. Rocca moderated the finals of the
National Geographic Bee from 2016 until its final competition in
2019. Rocca played a conservative morning TV show host in the second season of
The Good Fight in 2018.
Theater Rocca began his career acting on stage in the Southeast Asia tour of the musical
Grease (1993) and
Paper Mill Playhouse's
South Pacific (1994). On
Broadway, Rocca played the role of Vice Principal Douglas Panch in
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
Writing 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. Rocca's satirical book, ''All the Presidents' Pets: The Story of One Reporter Who Refused to Roll Over'', deals with American presidents, their pets, and reporters and was published by Crown Books in 2004. His contribution to AOL Newsbloggers was titled
Mo Rocca 180°: Only Half as Tedious as the Regular News. In 2011, he won an
Emmy as a writer for the 64th Annual
Tony Awards. Rocca authored
Mobituaries in 2019, a book about underappreciated people in history such as
Elizabeth Jennings Graham. In February 2024, he announced that
Roctogenarians, a
Mobituaries-style book focusing on people who achieved success late in their lives, would be released in June. ==Personal life==