Jeff Bakalar

Bakalar was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1982[5] and was raised in Briarwood, Queens before his family relocated to Marlboro Township, New Jersey where he attended Marlboro High School. He graduated from Towson University in 2004 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Electronic Media and Film, where he won an award for a mockumentary he directed called Adult Swim.[6]

In 2010, he married his longtime girlfriend, Stacie Davis.[7]

He currently lives in Florham Park, New Jersey.

During his college years, Bakalar worked as a production office intern for actor and producer Bob Balaban in New York City at his production company Chicagofilms[8] while Balaban completed work on Gosford Park.[9]

In 2004, he signed a contract with Warner Bros. Records subsidiary Maverick Records to direct and produce a documentary for the pop punk band Mest. The documentary, entitled Seven Deadly Sins was released as a pack-in bonus with copies of the band's 2005 album Photographs.[10][11]

In 2007, Bakalar joined CNET as a home theater and gaming editor, eventually starting a technology and pop culture podcast called The 404 Show with Randall Bennett and Wilson Tang.[12] In hosting the podcast, Bakalar has interviewed Tony Hawk, Marc Maron, John Hodgman, Shaun White, Wayne Brady, Scott Aukerman, Michael Showalter, Andrew W.K. and others.[13] Each year the podcast is performed live at the Consumer Electronics Show, where it has featured Danny DeVito, Eliza Dushku, Felicia Day and others.[14][15]

In 2012, Bakalar started CNET's first-ever weekly tech parody comic called Low Latency, which he writes and is illustrated by Blake Stevenson.[16]

Bakalar briefly co-hosted another CNET project, Pre-Game, but stopped production after a year of programming to focus more on The 404 Show.[12]

Bakalar is a member of the New York Videogame Critics Circle, an advocacy group for game writers in and around the New York City area.[17]

He regularly appears on TV and radio as a technology, pop culture, and video game expert. Bakalar has been featured on G4's Attack of the Show, NPR's All Things Considered, and CNBC's Power Lunch.[18][19][20]

In late 2014, Bakalar joined CBSN as a regularly appearing tech and pop culture pundit representing CNET.[21]

On May 22, 2015, he joined the cast of Giant Bomb's Giant Beastcast.[22]

On September 29, 2017, the final episode of The 404 Show podcast was published.[2]

• CNET.com
• The 404 Show
• CNET Video
• CNET profile
• Twitter page
• Jeff Bakalar at IMDb