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Do it. not always, thank you, i got a laugh out of david lit, that's big. not always so funny, there was a tim polenti in 2011, think one of the first lines you wrote for him. let me roll the tape and you tell the back story. >> tim pawlenty, he seems all american. but if you heard his real middle name? tim hosni pawlenty. what a shame. >> it was not supposed to be tim hosni pawlenty. what was it supposed to be? >> well that joke, in a pitch to the speechwriter running the process at the time, john love it, and at the time, my pitch was tim bin laden pawlenty. and i thought it was much funnier...

Health care and climate change, comedy was his forte. he chronicles the behind the scenes in his new book. thanks, obama, my hopy-changy, white house years. he's currently the head writer and producer of "funny or die" washington, d.c. operations. david, how hard to get the potus to deliver the bucket routine? >> what i write about in the books is the way the jokes often reflected bigger trends in the administration in the white house at the time. so bucket might have been hard a few years earlier. but this was after the mid-term elections. president obama said you know what, i'm going to brin...

>> you have to balance your humor or you're going to offend somebody. mort didn't care. >> the act is the statement of a lone guy in a rebellion. that's why people call it negative. i don't talk about the news, i'm a victim of the news. >> former speech writer for president obama. david lit joins me live from los angeles. good to see you. you wrote a lot of speeches for president obama. now you're the head writer for the funny or die website. how important was comedy in your speeches? >> i wrote for a president who has really good comic timing, he used that to get his point across, entertain a...

Think it's this president, no, i think it was the last pre who got us going. and because the economy is this big complicated thing with so many variables, everybody can find something to like and something not to like. i like the gdp, but i don't like the deficit. i like the jobs, but i don't like the wages. there's plenty of fodder for a bias for people to lock into whatever opinion they already held. >> david lit, your guy never got the full acknowledgement and credit that i think he deserved for bringing us out of the morass of 2008. so it's not just a phenomena of the trump watch. >> they'...

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