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," he was the lead writer on four White House Correspondnts' Dinner presentations and has contributed jokes to President Obama's speeches since 2009. He is the head writer and producer for Funny or Die's office in Washington, DC. He has also written for the Onion, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, and the New York Times.