What It's Like to Write Jokes for Barack Obama
Good One
Vox Media Podcast Network
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2017
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Vulture's Good One Podcast is sponsored by HBO's crashing starring Pete Holmes. |
| 0:04.0 | The new comedy series co-created by Holmes and Judd Apetow draws on their experience as comedians offering a behind-the-scenes look at the |
| 0:09.8 | unpredictable world of stand-up comedy. Guest stars include Ardy Lang, T.J. Miller, Sarah Silverman, and Hannibal Burris. |
| 0:17.0 | Crashing has just wrapped up its first season, but if you missed any of it, |
| 0:20.0 | every episode is available on HBO Go and HBO Now. |
| 0:23.7 | Welcome to Good One. Volter's new podcast about jokes and those who write them. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm your host Jesse David Fox, and each week I have a comedian, comedy writer, or director on to play and talk about one of their jokes. |
| 0:42.0 | This week's guest is David Litt, who's currently the head writer on to play and talk about one of their jokes. |
| 0:43.0 | This week's guest is David Litt, who's currently the head writer for Funier D.S. Washington, D.C. office, |
| 0:47.0 | and his previous job was writing for this small little known act, President Barack Obama. |
| 0:52.0 | Before that, we have a little housekeeping. |
| 0:54.0 | This is the last episode of the first season of Good One. |
| 0:57.0 | But don't worry, a second season is coming, |
| 0:59.0 | and in the meantime we're going to have bonus episodes. |
| 1:01.0 | Seriously, like a bunch of bonus episodes, like there will be one next week and then the week after that as well. |
| 1:06.0 | Also there will be live episodes and I'll tell you about those. Still, thank you so much to everyone who has listened and rated the show positively on iTunes and |
| 1:13.3 | tweeted nice things to me. A podcast where I talked to comedy makers about their |
| 1:17.0 | processes flowed around my little brain for years so thank you for making me feel |
| 1:20.3 | not alone for being interested in this stuff. With the finale I want to do something |
| 1:24.4 | special and different. I'm curious about jokes in all their forms and I couldn't think of anyone who has |
| 1:29.2 | written in jokes for a more unusual performer than David Litt. Litt, whose memoir, Thanks Obama is available for |
| 1:34.8 | pre-order, wrote a bunch of speeches about taxes and roads and whatever, but also was the |
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