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Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Barack Obama’s 2011 White House Correspondents’ Dinner Speech (with Jon Lovett)

Good One: A Podcast About Jokes

Vox Media Podcast Network

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

This week on Good One, host Jesse David Fox welcomes Jon Lovett to the pod. Before co-hosting Pod Save America and hosting Lovett or Leave It, Lovett was a speechwriter for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. And in that role, he was known as the go-to comedy guy. This episode looks back at the first three White House Correspondents’ Dinner speeches Lovett worked on under Obama, as a way to have a conversation about the role of humor in politics. Stream Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It Order Jesse's book (out now!), Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture–and the Magic That Makes It Work here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374604714/comedybook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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powerful heart racing drama.

0:23.6

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0:28.6

Hi there, this is Andy Richter from Team Coco and I want to tell you about my

0:35.5

podcast The Three Questions. Every week I invite incredibly talented funny

0:41.2

interesting people on and I ask them all the same three questions.

0:45.6

Where do you come from?

0:46.7

Where are you going?

0:47.7

And what have you learned?

0:48.7

I think those three questions, when answered thoughtfully and honestly, give you a pretty clear picture of who a person is, and

0:55.0

we also have a lot of fun and laughs on the way there.

0:58.3

New episodes every week with guests like Bill Hater, Zach Galifinacus, Kristen Bell, and more.

1:03.7

Listen wherever you get your podcast.

1:05.9

That's the three questions with Andy Richter. Hello and welcome to Good One a podcast about jokes. I'm your host Jesse David Fox. Each episode the

1:25.0

guest plays a clip with one of their jokes and discusses the story and

1:28.0

process behind it. This week's guest is John Lovett, Pod Save America co-hosts of Lovet or Leave it,

1:35.5

Pod Saves comedic offshoot, and former speechwriter for Hiller Clinton and President

1:40.0

Barack Obama.

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