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What It's Like to Write Jokes for Barack Obama
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What It's Like to Write Jokes for Barack Obama

Good One · Vulture

April 17, 201759m 47s

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Show Notes

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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