Alexander Jennings Albrecht (born August 14, 1976) is an Americantelevision personality, actor and podcaster. He is known for co-hosting the formerG4techTVtelevision programThe Screen Savers, an hour-longcomputer andtechnology variety show, as well as the weeklypodcastDiggnation and the weekday podcastThe Totally Rad Show on theRevision3 network. On July 15, 2008, he released his new podcast/websiteProject Lore, all aboutWorld of Warcraft. Albrecht has expressed a penchant for dressing up as characters from Street Fighter, most recently appearing as Guile.^[2] He was the Head of Original Programming at Caffeine.^[3]

Alex Albrecht
Albrecht in Phoenix, Arizona in May 2011
Born	(1976-08-14)August 14, 1976 (age 48) Beverly Hills, California[1]
Occupations	Podcast host actor director writer
Spouse	Heather Stewart ​ (m. 2013)​
Website	www.alexalbrecht.com

Albrecht is the son of Dr.Mark Albrecht, former President ofILS, and Kathe Hicks Albrecht, past president and director of theVisual Resources Association, curator at American University in Washington, D.C.^[4] Alex went to elementary school atBurgundy Farm Country Day School,^{[citation needed]} and graduated fromAmerican University with a degree incomputer science. He was a member of theDelta Chi fraternity. While at college Albrecht was a cheerleader, with ambitions of becoming a professional mascot.^[5]

Albrecht worked for theRAND Corporation as a programmer and IT person and later worked for theScience Applications International Corporation developing multimedia programming forBP.^{[6][unreliable source?]}

In 2001, he founded the improv-comedy troupe The Misfit Toys, which performed live inL.A. until 2003.^{[citation needed]}

Albrecht appeared as a contestant on the gameshowRussian Roulette in 2002. He also appeared onBeat the Geeks.^{[citation needed]}

Albrecht was hired byG4techTV to be the co-host alongsideKevin Rose (replacing Patrick Norton) of the television technology show,The Screen Savers, for the first G4techTV episode airing from Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]} The first Los Angeles-based episode ofThe Screen Savers aired on September 7, 2004.

On August 5, 2005, Albrecht joinedRevision3. Albrecht co-hostedDiggnation, avideo podcast that summarizes a selection of the top stories submitted byDigg users, with formerThe Screen Savers co-host Kevin Rose. Albrecht also contributes to other projects for the company. He co-hosts a podcast calledThe Totally Rad Show, withDan Trachtenberg and Jeff Cannata. The first episode was released on March 27, 2007. Albrecht also hostedCtrl+Alt+Chicken, a weekly cooking show that lasted 8 episodes before being canceled in the fall of 2006.^{[citation needed]}

Albrecht was featured in "SWGack", a weeklypodcast on the popularMMORPG,Star Wars Galaxies. On March 4, 2006, he andJoshua Brentano announced on their last episode that they would discontinue the podcast due todisenchantment with the game itself.^[7]

Albrecht and Rose also appeared in aSuper Bowl ad forGoDaddy.com duringSuper Bowl XLI. Albrecht has appeared in aDomino'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.^{[citation needed]}

Alex's next project wasProject Lore, which launched Tuesday, June 17, 2008.Project Lore is all about the popular video gameWorld of Warcraft. On the show, Alex and friends have shown off all of the five main dungeons available in the game's first expansion pack,The Burning Crusade, starting with the lower levels, and working up. BeforeWorld of Warcraft's second expansion pack,Wrath of the Lich King was released, theProject Lore team were allowed to showcase some of its new beta content. Project Lore has since been abandoned; there have not been any blog posts for some time and a potential revamp proved too costly and the Project has been turned over into the hands of the volunteer bloggers in hopes that they will continue on their own.^{[citation needed]}

In 2009, Alex started an iPhone app company called App Dragon which released one app later that year called Duel.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2010, Alex flew with the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels) in the back seat of Blue Angel #7 (frequently used for media and public relations flights).^{[citation needed]}

In July, 2010, Alex seeks funding for the short film "Neverland" through Indiegogo, in which Alex was named as a director. According to Alex's Twitter account, shooting started July 30, 2010.^{[citation needed]}

Albrecht has also guest-starred in season 3, episode 4 of an Internet-based live-action parody ofThe Legend of Zelda calledThe Legend of Neil. Albrecht's character "Todd" was a member of a small group of soldiers from the elven army, which was led by Zelda's brother Tyrelda. In the series, Zelda is, much to Link/Neil's surprise, black skinned, rather than white. Her brother Tyrelda and the rest of the elf troops are black as well and make constant reference to Alex Albrecht's character being the token white guy. A number of stereotypes associated with African-Americans in the real world are reverse-applied to Todd and the white elf race in the land of Highrule. By the end of the episode, Todd appears to have died along with Tyrelda and the rest of the gang, making for a short-lived but noteworthy contribution made by Alex to the series.^[8]

In May 2012, a new show was released on theNerdist YouTube Channel called4 Points with Alex Albrecht. The show features 4 people discussing 4 different topics. Albrecht and co-hostAlison Haislip are the only permanent members of the panel, with the other spots filled by a personality from some other Nerdist show and a celebrity, usually from TV or movies.^{[citation needed]}

In April 2015, Alex andAlison Haislip started a new podcast called theHalf Hour Happy Hour. He left the show in December 2018 and was replaced byMaude Garrett.^{[citation needed]}

• The Legend of Neil as Todd
• The Romantic as The Spank

• Official website
• Alex Albrecht atIMDb