they are armor speechwriters, john favreau and john lovett. you guys are awesome to be here.opportune moment. you are both highly qualified communications professionals. ask you first about the topic that everyone in the world is talking about, that we talked about already. >> climate change? >> climate change. i want to hear your views on that. but first, i want to ask you if it where you, and you were advising donald trump, would you have considered it advisable to send out a tweet celebrating single demaio eating a tocco bowl and saying, i love hispanics? exit would be hard. -- >> it would be hard. that is not a good tweet. actually an is not ethnically traditional dish, i don't think. it is sort of like a cuban on white bread. you know what i mean? the: you seized on that is biggest problem. what is your thought about that? outreach strategy. >> i am sure when he said, i love hispanics, that had nothing to do with the toggle bold. it was a non sequitur. i don't know. it is funny, people started thinking a couple days ago, maybe we would get a disciplined donald trump. he

favreau served as the white house director of each writing. he left washington in 2013 to go found fenway strategies. johneavitt served as a presidential beach writer -- speechwriter for three years. specialnch served as assistant to the president, senior speechwriter, he left to work for funny or die. i am pleased to have all of them at this table tonight. the big question first, we are going to talk about funny and serious -- which is harder? the comedy or the great arc of speech that serves the nation about who we are and what the issue is? >> i have to say the latter. [laughter] >> jokes are hard. that thedifferent in comedy is very hard because i think, these guys know well, writing comedy for anyone is difficult. running for a politician, a president, is particularly difficult. there are plenty of funny things we cannot say. if you are an office -- a president. that is much more of a group effort. selecting which jokes. the serious beaches are difficult because you want to be in the moment. often times -- you want to say something new and different. when the president has been giving speeches for ei

. >> john, the words behind the president are written by two of these men beside me. at least they were. jon favreau and david litt. they've been involved in tonight's speech. a preview. are we going to hear him talk about donald trump tonight, john? >> yeah, i think there will be some trump in tonight's speech. just a touch. >> is there a discussion of too far with trump or no boundary? >> is this guy getting too much attention? that i think is a nationwide discussion. but i think, you know, you saw in 2011 there were not a lot of holds bar. >> walk me through previous speeches. what is it like to work through these speeches with president obama? is he contributing as much as you all are? he can be a funny guy but also a serious guy. >> he is funny. he likes to poke fun at the absurdity of politics. because he thinks politics can be a bit absurd. that's the style of jokes that he likes. when we assemble all the jokes at the beginning we have a whole big team and tyler is a speech writer who ran the process this year, and we collected a lot of jokes and he picks his favorites after that. >> tell me

john. joining us a different jon, former speech writer, jon favre favreau. >> thanks for having me. >> do youm out of business unfortunately. >> it had some -- it worked in the primary, but. >> a little bit. he won the nomination. it worked tremendously well in the primary. >> he won 40% of a 17 person field. but look, i think there is a lot of value to unscriptedness. as we've seen from donald trump, you have to be incredibly self-disciplined, and he is not. and so many of the things that he said in the primary when he wasn't on script will come back to haunt him. >> people find it refreshing. voters say they've been looking for this. >> voters find someone who is comfortable in their skin refreshi refreshing, to a point, until that person become ace serial liar. >> what do you admire about his communications skills? >> look, i think that he is clearly tapped into plenty of grievances on the right. and he knows, like, he checks out all the conspiracy theories in right wing media and so he knows how do that. he knows how to get media attention. he knows how to say a lot of crazy things, and t