As some of you heard, the state of Hawaii released my official long-form birth certificate.

Hopefully, this puts all doubts to rest.

But just in case there are any lingering questions,

tonight I'm prepared to go a step further.

Tonight, for the first time, I am releasing my official birth video. I want to make clear to the Fox News table. That was a joke. Hello and welcome to the Last Laugh. My name's Matt Wilstein and I'm a senior writer at The Daily Beast. On today's show, someone I have interviewed many times over the past few years.

I think I can even call him a friend at this point.

Crooked Media co-founder and former speechwriter for President Obama, John Lovin.

John is hesitant to call himself a comedian, but he did spend several years writing jokes

for Obama's

White House Correspondent dinner speeches and performs what has been sounding more and more like

stand-up on his weekly live podcast, Love It or Leave It. We taped this episode at Crooked Media

headquarters in L.A., the very same studio where Pod Save America tapes twice a week, and went

pretty deep on the state of political

comedy as we approached the first comedy-free White House correspondent's dinner in 16 years.

I hope you enjoy this much more political than usual edition of The Last Laugh with the very funny

and very opinionated, John Lovett.

So yeah, I feel like your, you know, your legions of fans would love to know what a typical day is like for you here at Crooked Media.

So what's happening today?

Well, today, you know, there was, it's a mix of things.

We, every day is a little bit different because, you know, Monday there's a

Pod Save America. Tuesday, Tommy records Pod Save the World. On Thursday, there's another

Pod Save America. And Love and Relive it is usually Thursday night. You know, it's a mix of things.

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