Leo Laporte

Leo Laporte has worked as an author, speaker, and broadcaster in New Haven, Monterey, San Jose, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, most recently focusing on technology coverage for radio, television, and the Internet. Currently Leo hosts The Tech Guy Show a national radio technology talk show every Saturday and Sunday from 2-5p Eastern on over 200 stations on the Premiere Networks including KFI, Los Angeles and KGO, San Francisco. Founded in April, 2005, his TWiT Netcast Network produces some of the most popular podcasts in the world heard by more than 6 million listeners and viewers each month including shows like this WEEK in TECH, Security Now!, Windows Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, This Week in Google, and the Webby Award winning, Triangulation. In May, 2008, Leo launched a live streaming video version of TWiT called TWiT Live with 25 hours of original programming each week. 2.6 million people watched TWiT Live in its first month and the numbers continue to grow. TWiT broadcasts daily from a dedicated live-streaming video studio in Petaluma, California. Leo lives with his wife and TWiT CEO, Lisa Laporte, in Petaluma.

Works

NSFW Show

NSFW Show

Magician and scam artist Brian Brushwood teams with Justin Robert Young for a weekly irreverent fun fest featuring unusual guests, bizarre games, and strange and wonderful tales.

Release Date2009-11-24

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count219

Know How...

Know How...

Get the know how to make technology work for you. TWiT shows you tech projects that you can do yourself and explains everything from tech basics to advanced techniques.

Release Date2012-07-05

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Self - Host

Episode Count174

The New Screen Savers

The New Screen Savers

The New Screen Savers is a variety show for tech. The show stars Leo Laporte and is co-hosted by Megan Morrone, Jason Howell, Fr. Robert Ballecer, and Bryan Burnett. Viewers get live tech help, interesting guests, insights into the latest innovations, products and trends, plus lots of fun things thrown in, too. There will also be special guest co-host appearances from Patrick Norton, Kate Botello, Kevin Rose, Martin Sargent, and more.

Release Date2015-05-02

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd Host

Episode Count[ 113 ]

The Screen Savers

The Screen Savers is an American TV show that aired on TechTV. The show launched concurrently with the channel ZDTV on May 11, 1998. The Screen Savers originally centered around computers, new technologies, and their adaptations in the world. However, after it was taken over by G4, the show became more general-interest oriented and focused somewhat less on technology. The final episode of The Screen Savers aired on March 18, 2005. Repeat episodes continued to air until March 25, 2005 when its replacement program, Attack of the Show! began 3 days later on March 28, 2005. Two spiritual successors to the Screen Savers are in the form of This Week in Tech on the TWiT Network with Leo Laporte and Tekzilla on Revision3 with Patrick Norton.

Release Date1998-05-11

DepartmentEditing

JobEditorial Manager

Charactersd Self - Host

Episode Count4

Vote Count2

The Lab with Leo Laporte

The Lab with Leo Laporte

The Lab with Leo Laporte was a technology-based television program hosted by Leo Laporte. Episode #1 debuted on April 23, 2007 on G4techTV Canada and HOW TO Channel Australia. The program was produced by Greedy Productions in Vancouver, BC. Production was overseen by the show's producer, Matt Harris and Marc Lefebvre. The show also now airs on Citytv after Rogers Media acquired control of the stations, and episode segments were also posted to Google Video several weeks after initial airing.

Release Date2007-04-23

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

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Episode Count[ 4 ]

FourCast

FourCast

Join Scott Johnson and Tom Merritt to get short term, long term, and crazy predictions, as well as the always interesting FourCast Findings and FourCast QuickFire Questions segments. They're a little lazy, so they bring on two guests every episode and make them do the work.

Release Date2009-07-14

Charactersd Self - Guest

Episode Count1

Scam School

If Harvard offered a PhD in deceit, this would be it. Award-winning magician Brian Brushwood takes viewers on an inside tour of bar tricks, street cons, and scams. If you watch carefully, you'll never have to pay for a drink again!

Release Date2008-04-06

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Attack of the Doc!

Before the rise of big tech, social media and Marvel movies, Attack of the Show! chronicled the rise of nerd culture. G4TV's flagship show launched the careers of hosts Olivia Munn and Kevin Pereira and was beloved by fans! But what really happened?

Release Date2023-04-21

Charactersd Self

Vote Count7

Game On!

Game On!

Veronica Belmont & Brian Brushwood can't live without video games. They'd literally die. TWiT's first video game show, Game On, fixes this. They are sustained by playing games and then gleefully bringing you news, reviews, and commentary about console and PC games that you'll get nowhere else. Please watch Game On, it's a matter of life and death.

Release Date2012-01-15

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Self

Episode Count13

Hackers Wanted

Hackers Wanted explores the origins and nature of hackers and hacking by following the adventures of Adrian Lamo, and contrasting his story with that of controversial figures throughout history.

Release Date2009-01-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count14

Age of Audio

In the 21st century, audio storytelling, one of the oldest forms of entertainment, experienced a remarkable resurgence, giving birth to the new medium and industry of podcasting. This documentary delves into this revival, offering insights into the history and impact of audio storytelling as it evolves.

Release Date2024-10-26

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Jonathan Coulton - Best. Concert. Ever.

This live set, containing twenty of Jonathan Coulton’s most popular songs, was filmed in February 2008 in front of a sold out crowd at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, California.

Release Date2009-05-16

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

How to Build Your Own PC

Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton show you how to build a PC.

Release Date2002-01-01

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Vote Count1

Solve Your Computer Problems

TechTV's Leo Laporte and Patrick Norton help you solve common PC problems in this VHS release.

Release Date2002-02-28

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Vote Count1

Padre's Corner

Padre's Corner

18% science, 27% irreverence, 22% current events, 56% geek life, 13% non-sequiturs and $19 of ranting. That's the formula for Padre's Corner – A show that's not necessarily about tech news, but created by those who love news about tech. Join Padre each week as he picks up the stories that fall through the cracks and geeks out with your favorite folks from around the Interwebz.

Release Date2014-08-12

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count29

Call for Help

Call for Help, also known as CFH, was a computer-themed television program that first aired exclusively on TechTV, a cable and satellite television network focused on technology, and then aired on G4techTV Canada and the HOW TO Channel in Australia. The final taped episode aired on February 26, 2007, but because the episodes were taped out of order, a number of other episodes taped during the same shooting week aired through April 6, 2007. A spin-off called The Lab with Leo Laporte aired much of the same content as Call for Help and ran on the same networks. The Lab was canceled about one year later due to low viewer ratings and the final episode aired in August 2008.

Release Date1998-05-11

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count2

redditUP

redditUP

redditUP features the best that "the front page of the Internet" has to offer. Hosted by Sarah Lane and Chad "OMGchad" Johnson, each episode recaps the week's best stories, memes, AMAs (Ask Me Anythings), and more from the popular social news community.

Release Date2014-07-30

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count9