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Alex Albrecht | |
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| Born | August 14, 1976 |
| Occupation(s) | Podcast host, Actor |
| Website | http://diggnation.com http://totallyradshow.com |
Alexander Jennings Albrecht (born August 14, 1976 in Vienna, Virginia) is an American television personality, actor and podcaster who resides in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. He is best known for co-hosting the former TechTV television program The Screen Savers, an hour-long computer and technology variety show, as well as the weekly podcast Diggnation and The Totally Rad Show.
Early life
Alex is the son of Dr. Mark Albrecht, President of the ILS. Alex went to elementary school at Burgundy Farm Country Day School (Mentioned in Diggnation Episode 141).
Albrecht graduated from American University with a degree in computer science.
Career
Albrecht worked for the RAND Corporation as a programmer and IT person and later worked for the Science Applications International Corporation developing multimedia programming for British Petroleum.[1]
In 2001, he founded the improv-comedy troupe The Misfit Toys, which performed live in L.A. until 2003.
Albrecht appeared as a contestant on the gameshow Russian Roulette in 2002.
Albrecht was hired by G4TechTV to be the co-host alongside Kevin Rose (replacing Patrick Norton) of the television technology show, The Screen Savers, for the first G4techTV episode airing from Los Angeles. The first Los Angeles based episode of The Screen Savers aired on September 7, 2004.
On November 11, 2004, Albrecht announced on his personal blogs that G4 had decided to revamp The Screen Savers by making it more pop culture, Internet, and gaming-oriented. Alex Albrecht, Yoshi DeHerrera, Dan Huard, executive producer Paul Block, and the show's entire staff (comprised mostly of former TechTV employees) either resigned, made separation deals with G4, or were officially terminated.[2]
On August 5, 2005, Albrecht joined Revision3. Albrecht co-hosts Diggnation, a video podcast that summarizes a selection of the top stories submitted by Digg users, with former The Screen Savers co-host Kevin Rose. Albrecht also contributes to other projects for the company. He co-hosts a podcast called The Totally Rad Show, with Dan Trachtenberg and Jeff Cannata. The first episode was released on March 27, 2007. Albrecht also hosted Ctrl+Alt+Chicken, a weekly cooking show that lasted 8 episodes before being canceled in the fall of 2006.[3]
Albrecht was featured in "SWGack", a weekly podcast on the popular MMORPG, Star Wars Galaxies. On March 4th, 2006, he and Joshua Brentano announced on their last episode that they would discontinue the podcast due to disenchantment with the game itself.[4]
Albrecht and Rose also appeared in a Super Bowl ad for GoDaddy.com during Super Bowl XLI. Albrecht has appeared in a Domino's Pizza commercial as a stoner in a house being raided by the police. Alex has also appeared in a Dell commercial, advertising the line of High-Definition Dell LCD televisions, Alex stated that this commercial was ad libbed. He has also mentioned doing an audition for an advertisement for McDonald's that was never aired in the US, but he has said that it was for British television.
On December 4th, 2007 Alex guest hosted Attack of the Show (the show which succeeded his old show on G4, The Screen Savers).[5]
Gallery
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Alex Albrecht in the opening sequence of Diggnation
See also
References
- ^ "Biography for Alex Albrecht". imdb.com. Retrieved 2008-01-23.
- ^ Alex Albrecht: G4TechTV
- ^ List of Revision3 shows
- ^ SWGack - For Everything Star Wars Galaxies on PodcastAlley.com - The place to find Podcasts
- ^ "Alex Albrecht is Co-Hosting Attack of the Show Tuesday!". Retrieved 2008-01-23.