“People say that making money in the content-media game is hard, and that is just, like, not my experience. It's super-confusing, 'cause everyone's like, 'Oh, how are you going to monetize?' It's easy: just start talking, and then money rolls in.”

American podcaster, comedian, journalist, and former speechwriter, born 1982

Jon Lovett is an American podcaster, comedian, journalist, and former speechwriter. He is a co-founder of Crooked Media and a regular host of its podcasts Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It. Born in 1982, he has built a career at the intersection of politics and media. Lovett wrote speeches for President Barack Obama and for Hillary Clinton when she was a senator and a 2008 presidential candidate. He also co-created the NBC sitcom 1600 Penn and worked as a writer and producer on the third season of HBO’s The Newsroom. In 2024, he appeared as a contestant on Survivor 47.