Jon Lovett

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Jon Lovett (2017)

Jonathan Ira Lovett (born August 17, 1982 in Woodbury , New York ) is an American podcaster , comedian and former speechwriter . Together with Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor, he is co-founder of Crooked Media and moderator of the podcasts Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It, which appear there regularly . He worked as a speechwriter for Hillary Clinton when she was a US Senator, and with Favreau and Vietor for Barack Obama in his first term as President of the United States .

Life

Lovett grew up on Long Island as the child of Jewish parents of Ukrainian descent and attended Syosset High School. In 2004 he graduated from Williams College, Massachusetts in mathematics. His thesis, entitled Rotating Linkages in a Normed Plane , was published in the American Mathematical Monthly journal . After graduating, he worked as a stand-up comedian in New York for a year.

Career as a political speechwriter

In 2004 he volunteered for John Kerry's presidential campaign . After writing a statement for him, he was offered an internship. He then worked for a short time for the office of US Senator Jon Corzine . In 2005 he was hired as an assistant to Sarah Hurwitz, who worked as a speechwriter for Hillary Clinton . Lovett wrote for Clinton until he was defeated in the fight for the Democratic presidential candidacy against Barack Obama.

After Clinton's defeat, Lovett won an anonymous speechwriting contest for Obama in the White House. He worked there closely for 3 years with David Axelrod and the later co-founder of the joint company Crooked Media, Jon Favreau . He primarily wrote Obama's speeches on financial reform and don't ask, don't tell .

According to his own statements, Jon Lovett held the first same-sex marriage in the White House before the Obama administration officially endorsed same-sex marriages.

Career as a screenwriter and podcaster

Screenwriter

In 2011, Lovett left the White House for California to pursue a career as a screenwriter. The reasons he gave was to give his creativity more freedom and to want to concentrate more on his work as a comedian again. Together with Josh Gad and Jason Wiener he developed and produced the series 1600 Penn , which was discontinued after only one season due to low ratings. He then worked as a writer and producer on the HBO series The Newsroom .

Crooked Media

Starting in May 2016, Lovett, along with his former White House colleagues Jon Favreau and Tommy Vietor, hosted the Keepin 'it 1600 political podcast on sports site The Ringer . The podcast was supposed to accompany the 2016 presidential election, but not be continued beyond that. After Hillary Clinton's defeat by Donald Trump, Lovett, Favreau and Vietor wanted to become politically active again without having to leave LA. They subsequently founded the liberal media company Crooked Media with its flagship podcast pod Save America . As a result, other podcasts were successfully launched, many of which are regularly co-moderated by Lovett. It is particularly characteristic for the humorous loosening up of the podcast.

Since 2017, Lovett has hosted the discussion podcast Lovett or Leave It , which is usually recorded in front of a live audience in LA. There have also been national and international tours by Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It for some time .

Lovett is also involved in Crooked Media's Vote Save America project, which is about contributing to civic education and encouraging citizens to vote.

Private

Lovett is openly gay. He has been dating investigative journalist, lawyer and author Ronan Farrow since 2011 , who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for his revelations in the Harvey-Weinstein scandal in the New Yorker . In his 2019 book, Catch and Kill , Farrow announced the engagement to Lovett. He had proposed to him in a rough version of the book.

Web links

Commons : Jonathan Lovett  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ team. Retrieved May 6, 2020 (American English).
  2. ^ Gay for Impeachment. Retrieved May 6, 2020 (American English).
  3. ^ Dysfunctional first family. February 6, 2013, Retrieved May 6, 2020 (American English).
  4. ↑ a b c d e Jason Horowitz: Jon Lovett's written for the president, but will that get him to Hollywood? In: The Washington Post. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  5. ↑ American Mathematical Monthly - August / September 2007 | Mathematical Association of America. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  6. ^ A b Jon Lovett speaks on politics, election season. In: The Tufts Daily. October 15, 2012, accessed May 6, 2020 .
  7. ↑ StackPath. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Mike Allen: FIREWORKS EDITION - REVEALED: A clandestine gay wedding in the White House during Obama's first term (officiant: Jon Lovett) - CHRISTIE to return to MORNING JOE after 18 months - SCOTT WALKER joins Sn. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Obama's Former Speechwriter Reportedly Held Secret Same-Sex Marriage at the White House. July 7, 2015, accessed May 6, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Olivia B. Waxman: Q&A: Jon Lovett, Former Obama Speechwriter, on His NBC Comedy '1600 Penn' . In: Time . January 10, 2013, ISSN  0040-781X ( time.com [accessed May 6, 2020]).
  11. ↑ Steve Clemons: White House Speechwriter Leaving for Hollywood. September 5, 2011, accessed May 6, 2020 (American English).
  12. ↑ Jon Lovett. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Jon Lovett | Aspen Ideas. Retrieved May 6, 2020 (American English).
  14. ↑ Annie Karni: 'Obama bros' learn to love Hillary. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  15. ^ A b c Jason Zengerle: The Voices in Blue America's Head . In: The New York Times . November 22, 2017, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed May 6, 2020]).
  16. ↑ Obama's former speechwriter launches new podcast. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Pod Save America Announces Nationwide tour. In: Consequence of Sound. August 16, 2017, Retrieved May 6, 2020 (American English).
  18. ↑ David Lidsky: The Pod Save America TV show is not going to save democracy-or even your Friday nights. October 13, 2018, Retrieved May 6, 2020 (American English).
  19. ↑ Steve Clemons: White House Speechwriter Leaving for Hollywood. September 5, 2011, accessed May 6, 2020 (American English).
  20. ↑ Recode Staff: Full transcript: Journalist Ronan Farrow on Recode Decode. May 4, 2018, accessed May 6, 2020 .
  21. ^ Player FM: Jon Lovett. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  22. ^ Catch and Kill. Retrieved May 6, 2020 .
  23. ↑ Amanda Arnold: Ronan Farrow Proposed to His Fiancé in a Draft of Catch and Kill. October 16, 2019, Retrieved May 6, 2020 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Lovett, Jon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lovett, Jonathan Ira (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American podcaster, comedian, and former speechwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Woodbury , New York