Jon Favreau
1 movie
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jun 2, 1981 (age 45)
- Place of birth
- Winchester - Massachusetts - USA
- Also known as
- Jonathan Edward Favreau
Biography
Jonathan Edward Favreau (born June 2, 1981) is an American political commentator, podcaster, and the former director of Speechwriting for President Barack Obama.
Favreau attended the College of the Holy Cross, where he took part in and/or directed numerous community and civic programs. He also accumulated numerous scholastic honors before graduating as valedictorian. After graduation, he went to work for the John Kerry presidential campaign in 2004, working to collect talk radio news for the campaign and was promoted to the role of Deputy Speechwriter. Favreau first met Barack Obama, then a state Senator from Illinois, while working on the Kerry campaign.
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In 2005, Obama's communications director Robert Gibbs recommended Favreau to Obama as a speechwriter.[8] Favreau was hired as Obama's speechwriter shortly after Obama's election to the United States Senate. Obama and Favreau grew close, and Obama referred to him as his "mind reader." He went on the campaign trail with Obama during his successful presidential election campaign. In 2009, he was named to the White House staff as Director of Speechwriting.
In January 2017, he co-founded liberal media company Crooked Media with fellow former Obama staffers Tommy Vietor and Jon Lovett, and began co-hosting the political podcast Pod Save America with Vietor, Lovett and Dan Pfeiffer.
Known for
Jon Favreau: movies and TV shows
Behind the camera (1)
- 2019 Running with Beto
Co-Executive Producer
Talk shows and appearances (10)
- 2021 Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
3 episodes
- 2020
- 2018 Pod Save America
4 episodes
- 2017
- 2017
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
5 episodes
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers
1 episode
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
1 episode
- 2003 Real Time with Bill Maher
2 episodes
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live!
3 episodes