Jon Lovett

The Three Questions with Andy Richter

Team Coco & Earwolf

Comedy

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and writer Jon Lovett, host of “Pod Save America” and “Lovett or Leave It,” joins Andy Richter to discuss balancing comedy and politics, playing Mario on prom night, writing speeches for President Barack Obama, why Jon believes “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” was inherently progressive, some of Jon and Andy’s favorite dad aphorisms, leaving the White House for Hollywood, and more.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody welcome back to the three questions I am the host of the three questions
0:04.5	Andy Richter and this week I am talking to podcaster comedian former White House
0:11.3	Speech writer that's my first time talking to one of those, and now
0:14.8	author John Lovett. You know him as the host of Pod Save America and Love It or Leave
0:20.1	It. As a Speechwriter, he worked for President Barack Obama as well as for Hillary Clinton
0:25.2	when she was a U.S. senator and a 2008 presidential candidate. His book, Democracy or
0:31.1	else How to Save America in 10 easy steps is out this June. Get your
0:36.0	tickets for John's many live dates at crooked.com slash events. Here is my
0:40.9	really fun and really interesting conversation with John Lovett. Well, thank you for coming.
0:59.6	Thanks for having me.
1:00.6	Yeah.
1:01.6	Are you just plug in your, uh... Plug in the book? The book?
1:04.4	Plug in the tour. Yeah. And then plug in Vote Save America. And the
1:07.5	pods. And the book is Democracy or Else, How to Save America in 10 easy steps.
1:13.4	That's right.
1:14.6	Were there 12 or 13 and you're just like no 10,
1:17.3	it's gotta be 10?
1:18.3	I'll tell you something.
1:19.3	They were nine.
1:20.3	I tried to think of another one. And we were really stuck for a while.
1:25.0	Wow.
1:26.0	And then we figured out a tenth, which was, hey, take a break.
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