Rory Albanese is a multi-Emmy Award-winning executive producer and writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Outside the show, Rory is an accomplished stand-up comedian; he has toured the country with Lewis Black and his own, entertained American troops in Afghanistan with the USO, and performed on some shows too.
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Who Is Rory Albanese?
Rory Albanese was born on 29 May 1977 in Long Island, New York, USA. Information about his parents, siblings, and childhood days are not available as of now. He is a private person himself and keeps what’s important himself.
Talking about his educational background, he graduated in 1999 from Boston University and has a degree in communications. With a brief look from his writing for The Daily Show, Rory seems to be quite the anti-Trump person.
Rory Albanese And His Girlfriend Sarah Silverman Got Closer While Playing Game
Being a private person, he has kept most personal information to himself. However, Rory Albanese and Sarah Silverman were first seemed to be romantically linked in November 2020, as per several media outlets.
Recently, in May 2021, in Los Angeles, they were seen enjoying a sunny stroll as the two walked side by side, linking their hands with Silverman’s pup. Their relationship seems to be getting stronger as the day goes by.
Rory Albanese and his girlfriend Sarah Silverman (©: Yahoo Canada Style)
Some find love during their outing, some while passing through the news feeds on social media, but finding love straight from games has been a sort of new thing for this time of age. And the story of Rory and his girlfriend also initiates from a game. While everyone was quarantining due to the recent pandemic, Silverman got herself a console and bought the latest game, Call of Duty: WWII. Since she started playing the game, and apparently, Rory was too.
Through mutual friends, Rory direct-messaged Sarah on Twitter, offering to play online together. Sarah recalled a moment of her playing together on an episode of Ellen DeGeneres Show, “at 7:05 I’d put my headset on and I’d kill Nazis with this guy. Yadda yadda yadda, we’re boyfriend and girlfriend!” and that’s how they got together day-by-day. However, the exact date of them initiating their romantic relationship is not disclosed.
Sarah was the first one to introduce her relationship with Rory to the audience on The Endless Honeymoon podcast in November 2020. Together, their first public appearance was on 5 November 2020 on Instagram, where Sarah posted a picture to promote her appearance on The Endless Honeymoon.
Net Worth Of Rory Albanese, And His Career
From his professional career as a comedian, writer, and producer, Rory Albanese has garnered an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Rory joined the late-night show titled The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in 1999. As a writer and producer, he remained with this show till 2013. In the same network, Comedy Central, where this show was aired, Rory aired his own comedy show in April 2010. As a comedian, he also joined Lewis Black in 2007 and performed in the Red, White, and Screwed tour.
From 2010 through 2013, he teamed up with fellow Daily Show comedians John Oliver, John Hodgman, Rob Riggle, and Al Madrigal and did stand-up gigs across the country on their days off. In 2012, Rory traveled with John Oliver and other Daily Show comedians to Afghanistan for a USO tour to entertain American troops.
From 2010-2013, Rory joined Jon as the only two Executive Producers of The Daily Show. In 2015, Rory became Executive Producer, writer, and on-air correspondent for Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. In 2019, Rory became the executive producer of the ABC talk show Strahan, Sara & Keke.
He has also been associated with work on the shows, including Vice, The Approval Matrix (2014), The Fix (2018), Night of Too Many Stars (2017), The Mentors (2016), 2016 White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, and many others. He has also voiced The American on the podcast The Bulge.
Rory has garnered 14 nominations and 11 wins, including 9 Primetime Emmys for his works. He won WGA Award in 2010 for the Comedy/Variety – (Including Talk) Series for The Daily Show. The following year, he got himself a Grammy Award for the same show in Best Spoken Word Album (includes poetry, audio & storytelling). And also, all of his Primetime Emmys are for his work on the same show, The Daily Show.