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What It's Like to Write Jokes for Barack Obama

What It's Like to Write Jokes for Barack Obama

FromGood One: A Podcast About Jokes


What It's Like to Write Jokes for Barack Obama

FromGood One: A Podcast About Jokes

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Length:
60 minutes
Released:
Apr 17, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

David Litt is the former senior presidential speechwriter for President Obama and he wrote his jokes, too. On this Good One, Litt shares about what it's like to write for the former president, why Obama is pretty good at delivering jokes and how they finally managed to incorporate Keegan-Michael Key's character of Luther, Obama's anger translater, into the White House Correspondence dinner. 
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Released:
Apr 17, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes is a podcast about - well - jokes, and the people who tell them. Each week, a comedian will play one of their jokes and then break it down with Vulture.com Senior Editor Jesse David Fox.