1. Jonathan Ira Lovett was born on August 17,1982 and is an American podcaster, comedian, journalist, and former speechwriter.
20 Facts About Jon Lovett
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Lovett is a regular host of the Crooked Media podcasts Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It.
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Jon Lovett co-created the NBC sitcom 1600 Penn, and was a writer and producer on the third season of HBO's The Newsroom.
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Jon Lovett was born in Manhattan and grew up in Woodbury, Long Island in a Reform Jewish family of Ukrainian ancestry that operated a box factory started by his grandfather.
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Jon Lovett graduated from Williams College in 2004 with a degree in mathematics.
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Jon Lovett was the Williams College class speaker at his commencement ceremony in 2004.
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Jon Lovett was asked to write a statement for the candidate, and his work led to an offer of a writing internship.
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Jon Lovett was hired in 2005 to assist Sarah Hurwitz as a speechwriter for then-Senator Hillary Clinton, and he continued to write speeches for her through her 2008 presidential campaign.
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When Clinton lost the 2008 Democratic primary contest, Jon Lovett won an anonymous contest to write speeches for President Barack Obama in the White House.
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Jon Lovett secretly officiated the first same-sex marriage in the White House, before the Obama administration supported same-sex marriage.
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In 2011, before Barack Obama ran for reelection, Jon Lovett left the White House and moved to California to become a screenwriter, citing a desire to write independently and focus on creative comedy full-time.
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Jon Lovett collaborated with Josh Gad and Jason Winer on the television series 1600 Penn, of which Lovett was a co-creator, executive producer, and writer from 2012 until its cancellation in 2013.
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Jon Lovett then worked as a writer, producer, and advisor on season three of HBO's The Newsroom.
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From 2012 to 2015, Jon Lovett contributed opinion pieces to venues like The Atlantic.
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Crooked Media, and Pod Save America in particular, has been compared to previous left-wing efforts like Air America to match America's conservative talk radio, and Jon Lovett has been characterized as providing comic relief to the programming.
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Jon Lovett has since launched a range of podcasts, several of which regularly feature Lovett.
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In March 2017, Jon Lovett began hosting Jon Lovett or Leave It, a panel show podcast produced by Crooked Media.
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The podcast, typically recorded in front of a live audience in Los Angeles, embarked on national and international tours featuring live versions of both Pod Save America and Jon Lovett or Leave It.
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Jon Lovett was involved in launching Crooked Media's voter recruitment and education project, Vote Save America.
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However, in a March 2023 episode of his podcast, Jon Lovett or Leave It, Jon Lovett stated that he was single after the end of a "10 and a half year" relationship.