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Alex Albrecht        

Television Personality, Actor and Podcaster; Best Known for Co-Hosting the Former Television Program "The Screen Savers"

Early on, Alex 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 BP.

In 2001, he founded the improv-comedy troupe The Misfit Toys, which performed live in L.A. until 2003.

Albrecht was hired by G4techTV to be the co-host alongside Kevin Rose of the television technology show, "The Screen Savers," for the first G4techTV episode airing from Los Angeles.

On August 5, 2005, Albrecht joined Revision3. Albrecht co-hosted "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.

Albrecht was featured in "SWGack," a weekly podcast on the popular MMORPG, Star Wars Galaxies.

Albrecht has appeared in ads for GoDaddy.com, Domino's Pizza and Dell.

Alex's newest project is Project Lore, which launched in June 2008. Project Lore is all about the popular video game World of Warcraft.

He is part of the long form improvisational comedy group Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, which uses the clap-in format created by director, Stan Wells.

In May of 2012, a new show was released on the Nerdist YouTube channel called 4 Points with Alex Albrecht. The show features four people discussing four different topics. Albrecht and co-host Alison 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.

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