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Originally Posted by savemedrzaius
I wonder if Obama writes any of his own jokes? And I wonder if he gets any famous comedians to help him out? Either way his delivery is awesome.
I've never liked Wilmore, even when he was a correspondent on the Daily show.
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This is a couple years old, but does pretty well to explain how much work goes into making it a funny speech.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/politi...425-story.html
But seated a few feet away in the audience, Obama's speechwriters were far more tense.
The president had the last word that evening, so their responsibilities throughout the night included scratching funny lines that other speakers used first. The assignment made for a roller-coaster dinner of frantic updates, edits and revisions to Obama's remarks.
In the realm of presidential speechwriting, comedy routines like the one Obama will deliver at the annual White House Correspondents Assn. dinner Saturday don't share the same import as a major policy address. But for those involved, the challenge of making sure the president comes off as funny is fraught with peril.
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About two weeks ago, he started curating suggestions from current and former aides, including longtime Obama advisor David Axelrod and speechwriters Jon Favreau and Jon Lovett. In recent years, writers from "Saturday Night Live" and "The Daily Show" as well as Judd Apatow and Stephen Colbert themselves have sent in lines.