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I'm motivated by a bottomless well of anger. It's a joke, but I don't think I don't mean it.
— Jon Lovett
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Jon Lovett
speechwriter, screenwriter, television producer, comedian, podcaster, reality television participant
1982
Jonathan Ira Lovett is 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.
All Quotes by Jon Lovett
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Humor is a way of saying we're all seeing the same ridiculous, absurd, infuriating things together.
— Jon Lovett
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America needs a strong, rational, positive, practical conservative movement. It needs that bulwark against liberal delusion and hubris. It needs a voice that says we are imperfect, that life is complex, that government can create need even as it meets need, that you can't fix everything, and freedom is worth some danger and sorrow.
— Jon Lovett