Alex Albrecht
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| Born | August 14, 1976 Vienna, Virginia |
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| Occupation | Podcast host, Actor |
| Spouse(s) | Heather Stewart |
| Website http://www.alexalbrecht.com/ |
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Alexander Jennings Albrecht (born August 14, 1976 in Vienna, Virginia) is an American television personality, actor and podcaster who resides in Hollywood, California. He is best known for co-hosting the former G4techTV television program The Screen Savers, an hour-long computer and technology variety show, as well as the weekly podcasts Diggnation and The Totally Rad Show. On July 15, 2008, he released his new podcast/website Project Lore, all about World of Warcraft.
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[edit] Early life
Alex is the son of Dr. Mark Albrecht, former President of ILS, and Kathy Albrecht.[1] Alex went to elementary school at Burgundy Farm Country Day School,[2] and graduated from American University with a degree in computer science. He was a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity.
[edit] 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.[3]
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. He also appeared on Beat the Geeks.
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.[4]
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.
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.[5]
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 eating Domino's pizza in a house being raided by the "flavor" police. Alex has also appeared in a Dell commercial, advertising the line of High-Definition Dell LCD televisions; Alex has 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).[6]
Alex's newest project is Project Lore, which launched Tuesday, June 17, 2008. Project Lore is all about the popular video game World of Warcraft. On the show, Alex and friends have shown off all of the five man dungeons available in the game's first expansion pack, The Burning Crusade, starting with the lower levels, and working up. Before World of Warcraft's second expansion pack, Wrath of the Lich King was released, the Project Lore team were allowed to showcase some of its new beta content.
Alex revealed on Totally Rad Show that he was in the pipeline to host NBC's version of Top Gear but the role was ultimately given to somebody else. NBC has subsequently cancelled their plans for the show.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Totally Rad Show Episode 60". revision3.com. http://revision3.com/trs/yourmom/. Retrieved on 2008-11-10.
- ^ "Diggnation Episode 141". revision3.com. http://revision3.com/diggnation/2008-03-13latenight. Retrieved on 2008-07-27.
- ^ "Biography for Alex Albrecht". imdb.com. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1395403/bio. Retrieved on 2008-01-23.
- ^ Alex Albrecht: G4TechTV
- ^ SWGack - For Everything Star Wars Galaxies on PodcastAlley.com - The place to find Podcasts
- ^ "Alex Albrecht is Co-Hosting Attack of the Show Tuesday!". http://chrisbegley.blogspot.com/2007/12/alex-albrecht-is-co-hosting-attack-of.html. Retrieved on 2008-01-23.
[edit] External links
- AlexAlbrecht.com
- Diggnation
- Ctrl+Alt+Chicken
- The Totally Rad Show
- Project Lore
- Revision3.com
- Open Source version of the 'Alefox' web browser
- Alex Albrecht at the Internet Movie Database
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