David Litt

David Litt entered the White House in 2011 and left in 2016 as a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Presidential Speechwriter. Described as the comic muse for the president, Litt began contributing jokes to President Obama's speehes in 2009 and was the lead writer on four White House Correspondents' Dinners. He is currently the head writer/producer for Funny Or Die's office in Washington, DC. Litt has also written for the Onion, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, and the New York Times. He lives in Washington, DC, with his fiancee, Jacqui Kappler, and their two goldfish, Florence and Duane.