Alex Albrecht

Alex Albrecht

Infobox Celebrity
name = Alex Albrecht



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birth_date = birth date and age|1976|8|14
birth_place = Vienna, Virginia
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occupation = Podcast host, Actor
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website = http://diggnation.com
http://totallyradshow.comhttp://projectlore.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 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 podcasts Diggnation and The Totally Rad Show. On July 15, 2008, he released his new podcast/website Project Lore, all about World of Warcraft.

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 [cite web|url=http://revision3.com/diggnation/2008-03-13latenight|title=Diggnation Episode 141|publisher=revision3.com|accessdate=2008-07-27] .

Albrecht graduated from American University with a degree in computer science. Alex was a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity.

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.cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1395403/bio|title=Biography for Alex Albrecht|publisher=imdb.com|accessdate=2008-01-23]

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. [ [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9pehFbptUY YouTube - Alex Albrecht on Russian Roulette ] ] He also appeared on "Beat the Geeks". [ [http://youtube.com/watch?v=lrSQMSaDsUQ YouTube - Alex Albrecht 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. [ [http://alexalbrecht.typepad.com/alex/g4techtv/index.html Alex Albrecht: G4TechTV ] ]

", a weekly cooking show that lasted 8 episodes before being canceled in the fall of 2006. [ [http://revision3.com/shows/ List of Revision3 shows] ]

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. [ [http://www.podcastalley.com/podcast_details.php?pod_id=20315 SWGack - For Everything Star Wars Galaxies on PodcastAlley.com - The place to find Podcasts ] ]

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 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"). [cite web|url=http://chrisbegley.blogspot.com/2007/12/alex-albrecht-is-co-hosting-attack-of.html |title=Alex Albrecht is Co-Hosting Attack of the Show Tuesday!|accessdate=2008-01-23]

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 show off all of the 5 man dungeons available in Burning Crusades, starting with the lower levels, and working up. Recently Blizzard allowed the Project Lore team to showcase some of the new beta content from the upcoming Wrath of the Litch King expansion.

ee also

*Project Lore
*Revision3
*TechTV
*Kevin Rose

References

External links

* [http://www.alexalbrecht.com AlexAlbrecht.com]
* [http://revision3.com/diggnation Diggnation]
* [http://revision3.com/ctrlaltchicken Ctrl+Alt+Chicken]
* [http://www.totallyradshow.com The Totally Rad Show]
* [http://projectlore.com/ Project Lore]
* [http://revision3.com/ Revision3.com]
* [http://alefox.sourceforge.net/ Open Source version of the 'Alefox' web browser]
*imdb name|id=1395403|name=Alex Albrecht


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