The Daily Show’s Mo Rocca Comes Out

After years of is-he-or-isn’t-he debates, former Daily Show correspondent Mo Rocca came out in a podcast interview with The Six Pack, a show about “news, views, and dudes” hosted by Ben Harvey and Dave Rubin.

“I'm just more comfortable with myself now,” Rocca said. “It's taken me until I'm 42 to begin feel this way.”

Rocca, a CBS Sunday Morning contributor and the host of The Tomorrow Show, has nearly a half million Twitter followers, which makes him a significant voice in the media.

Rocca also talked about being outside Stonewall Inn the night New York enacted marriage equality: “I tweeted about it. It was very memorable, very emotional, it was a great place to be.”

The sardonic journalist was surprisingly frank on The Six Pack, for instance, talking about some Fire Island gays who, he says, “combine desperation with ruthlessness, and it's just not a winning combination. To see someone who looks terrified, and kind of hungry and scared, and at the same time it's vicious. They're like starving jackals!”

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Name: Lore
Date posted: 8/1/2011 3:43:19 PM
Hometown: eLNeUSAVanbc

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Wow! That's a rlelay neat answer!
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Name: nosolcookie
Date posted: 7/30/2011 2:59:01 PM
Hometown: nosolcookie

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I retract what nosolomon said and cookiemonster said. But he needs to clarify instances where someone would comeout viciously and desperately. For example, a vicious coming out would be one in which the gay bully is accused of being homophobic by his peers then comes out as gay. Anyway, Congratulations for coming out.
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Name: nosolomon
Date posted: 7/29/2011 4:28:18 PM
Hometown: nosolomon

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There is a reason why this guy is getting bitchy comments. First of all, his comments were very insensitive and a total disregard of gay bullying and harassment. He is vilifying the bullied. For him to vilify a "fire Island gay" ignores "gay bullying." Secondly, If you comeout you don't come out for publicity, a political favor, or to exert criticism of your own the "fire island gay", simply because you have nothing better to do. You come out to pave the way for other individuals that are being bullied for being gay.
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Name: Allen J. Lopp
Date posted: 7/29/2011 4:11:13 PM
Hometown: Rural Southern Indiana

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Yes, we all already or assumed he was gay. Yes, it takes a certain amount of courage to confirm it publicly. Yes, it will affect his career, and nobody ever knows for sure what that effect will be. Yes, we should support him as one of our gay brothers, and quite bitching and trashing on him. Congratulations, Mo! ... We support you and we love you!
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Name: RichardB
Date posted: 7/29/2011 3:46:31 PM
Hometown: San Francisco

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Good for him. The Closet is no place to live.
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Name: Salomon
Date posted: 7/29/2011 3:02:45 PM
Hometown: Los Angeles

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It's so ironic that we're always hounding people to come out of the closet and embrace their sexuality when our response to this is always a bunch of bitchy comments about how we already knew or accusations of fame pandering. But it's OK when they do it on the cover of US weekly or People or have abs for days, right? As long as they're hot who cares but otherwise get back in that closet troll or worse the obligatory eye roll and back turn. I know this has been said to death but as a "community" we are the WORST example of that idea. We're the least accepting of the "outsider" and refuse to accept criticism as anything less than bitch talk, which again is just so overwhelmingly ironic.
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Name: Charles
Date posted: 7/28/2011 6:35:03 PM
Hometown: Austin, TX

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I am only surprised that he was noted as "The Daily Show's Mo Rocca." He's on CBS Sunday Morning now. Anyway, it's always nice when someone feels more comfortable in their own skin. Yay Mo!
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Name: Thomas
Date posted: 7/28/2011 4:38:26 PM
Hometown: CA

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I thought Mo came out publicly years ago. He must need a new media gig.
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Name: cookiemonster
Date posted: 7/28/2011 4:26:45 PM
Hometown: cookiemonsterland

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Nothing says, "STARVING," like coming out for publicity. He oozes, "sell out" in everyway. Whether you comeout kindly or viciously is dependent on the environment and situations. He seems to be oblivious to the world by calling it, "Fire Island gay." Im sorry but this guy is "Fire Island Stupid." You dont have rights in half of this country or the world remember? You are an embarrassement to Bachman. Are you on this planet?
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Name: tj
Date posted: 7/28/2011 3:56:08 PM
Hometown: virginia beach

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good for MO...though, really, this is apparently only news to MO himself...everyone else...well...kinda knew from the first time he opened his mouth...sorry but, NONE of his vocal inflictions, mannerisms or fashion choices screamed "HETEROSEXUAL" to me...

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