David Litt

David Litt is a New York Times bestselling author and a semi-finalist for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor. A former senior speechwriter for President Barack Obama, David was described as "the comic muse for the president" for his work on the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Since leaving the White House, he's written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, TIME, and The Guardian, among others, and served as a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice.

David appears frequently on CNN and MSNBC, and has appeared exactly once on Newsmax. (The interview, in which he pressed the host on the network's bogus claims of election fraud, was featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and viewed online more than 2.5 million times.) He continues to write speeches and jokes for major political figures, Fortune 500 CEOs, leading philanthropists, and NFL quarterbacks.

In addition to his prose writing, speechwriting, and political commentary, David was the head writer/producer for Funny Or Die D.C. from 2016 to 2018 and has toured dozens of cities as a live storyteller with The Moth. He's written and sold comedy pilots (including one based on his first book) for Comedy Central, ABC, and NBC, and is currently working on a Christmas movie about two New York City cops who go undercover as elves when Santa is framed for murder.

David’s first book, Thanks, Obama, My Hopey Changey White House Years, was released in September 2017, and his second, Democracy in One Book or Less, was released in June 2020. His third book, It’s Only Drowning, will be published in 2025.