Each week on Lovett or Leave It, former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett and a panel of comedians, actors, journalists, and some of the many, many famous Friends of the Pod break down the week’s biggest news and make fun of whatever bullshit came out of our insane political nightmare factory.
Jon Lovett: An American podcaster, comedian, journalist, and former speechwriter.
Lovett is a co-founder of Crooked Media, along with Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor. All three formerly worked together as White House staffers during the Obama administration. Lovett is a regular host of the Crooked Media podcasts Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It. As a speechwriter, he worked for both President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton when she was a United States senator and a 2008 presidential candidate. Lovett also co-created the NBC sitcom 1600 Penn, and was a writer and producer on the third season of HBO’s The Newsroom. Lovett appeared as a contestant on Survivor in 2024.
After his college graduation, Lovett spent a year working as a paralegal and doing stand-up comedy on the side. In 2004, Lovett volunteered for John Kerry’s presidential campaign. He was asked to write a statement for the candidate, and his work led to an offer of a writing internship. When Clinton lost the 2008 Democratic primary contest, Lovett won an anonymous contest to write speeches for President Barack Obama in the White House. Lovett wrote speeches in the Obama administration for three years, working closely with Jon Favreau and David Axelrod. Lovett secretly officiated the first same-sex marriage in the White House, before the Obama administration supported same-sex marriage.
This week, comedian/actress Edi Petterson joins Lovett to discuss playing Judy Gemstone on The Righteous Gemstones, how she calms her nerves by thinking of death, RFK Jr., the Trump Administration and more!
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