Mark Twain Library Presents Virtual Mo+Michael Live! 2 Guys Reliving Great Lives
Virtual Mo + Michael Live! 2 Guys Reliving Great Lives
We’ve got some very entertaining NEWS to share: On Saturday evening, April 18, Mo Rocca, the Emmy Award-winning correspondent for the CBS NEWS program “Sunday Morning,” will be chatting virtually with his old friend Michael Ian Black up close and personal – and you’re invited to join us from your own protected couch! Mo will talk about, among other things, his new NY Times Bestselling book Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving. Our host, Michael Ian Black, a best-selling author himself, a brilliant comedian – and the founder of our annual Pudd’nhead Prize Festival – will conduct this bound-to-be revealing and hilarious Q & A.
This program was originally scheduled to take place at the MTL. Fortunately, both gentlemen are willing to come to us virtually – the program will be live-streamed via a library-hosted YouTube link. Simply check back here for an updated link on April 18, 2020.
If you’d like, you can submit questions in advance via the website, too. We will pass them along to Michael for the Q & A part of the program. Click Here To Submit Questions.
Rocca’s podcast, Mobituaries, in its second season, introduces listeners to the people (and things) of the past who have long intrigued him—from an unsung Founding Father to the first Chinese-American superstar, from Neanderthals to the station wagon. The book Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving goes beyond the podcast, featuring new accounts of the lives of the famous and the obscure. With his dogged reporting and trademark wit, Rocca brings these men and women back to life like no one else can.
Mo Rocca is a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning, host of The Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation, and host and creator of the Cooking Channel’s My Grandmother’s Ravioli, in which he learned to cook from grandmothers and grandfathers across the country. He’s also a frequent panelist on NPR’s hit weekly quiz show Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me! Rocca spent four seasons as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He began his career in TV as a writer and producer for the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning PBS children’s series Wishbone. As an actor, Mo starred on Broadway in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Mo is the author of All the Presidents’ Pets, a historical novel about White House pets and their role in presidential decision-making.
Michael Ian Black is a standup comedian, author and actor who lives in Redding. His TV and film credits include Wet Hot American Summer, Wet Hot American Summer: 10 Years Late, Burning Love, They Came Together, The Jim Gaffigan Show, Inside Amy Schumer, and VH1’s I Love the ’80s. He has written numerous best-selling books for both children and adults, and his popular podcasts “How to Be Amazing” and “Obscure” are available on iTunes. His newest book, A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son will be available in May 2020. Michael Ian Black is also the founder of the Pudd’nhead Prize Festival, an important fundraiser for the Mark Twain Library. Drawing inspiration from one of Twain’s classic tales, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson, Pudd’nhead celebrates library founder Mark Twain’s incomparable humor while raising much-needed funds for the library’s operations.