>> reporter: here she is with president obama's former speechwriter jon favreau. >> he's not going to he's not going to win, everybody. >> reporter: and a group of older voters in swing state florida. >> anyone in this room planning on voting for donald trump? really? >> yes. >> why don't you explain yourself. >> i'm allowed to stupid somebody is and i don't have to care about getting them on my show or what he thinks about me. >> reporter: i don't think you've ever cared about that stuff. >> no, i haven't. >> reporter: that's part of your appeal. >> maybe, yeah. >> reporter: did you ever think you would get a platform where people would listen to actually what you have to say and what you think and you know, take that seriously? >> yeah, i did. >> you did think that was going to to happen. >> i had a lot of confidence. my father thought i was really like special. and he did a real number on me. >> reporter: does it bother you some people don't like. >> you. >> of course it bothers you. but i try and focus on the people that do like me especially with the show launching i pay more att

best fantasy film since "star wars." >> rose: here to discuss the craft, jon favreau he co-founded fenway strategists and jon lovett now a writer in headline wood. david litt was a senior speechwriter and joined funnier or die as head writer and producer. i am pleased to have all of them at the table tonight. the big question first because we'll talk about serious and funny speeches, what's is harder, the comedy or the great arch of speech that stirs the nation. >> i have to say the latter. >> anybody can write about blah, blah, blah. jokes are hard. >> no, it's different in that the comedy's hard because -- and these guys know really well, writing comedy for anyone is difficult. writing for a politician or president is particularly difficult because plenty of funny things you can't say if you're in office especially president. >> rose: that happens in the winnoeing process? >> it's difficult in selecting what is tough. the speeches are difficult because you want to meet the moment and often times and you want to say something new and different and when he's been president eight years it'

. >> jon favreau saw it was a new medium and immediately became interested in developing it and he's figuring out how is this different from film and what's unique. >> rose: and where is it with respect to games. >> 30 years in the game business had gotten to the point personally where games were repeating what had been done and i saw vr and that brought me back. inherentl inherently games were meant for vr and that creates the immersion. throw into that aliens or ghosts or whatever you want to create and you put people in the game which is something as a gamemaker you could never do. there was always the window people in the game. we are about to release touch controllers where your hands suddenly show up and it's a new way of interacting inside the game and feeling like the game is around you. fantastic and it's going to in a lot of ways add it the gaming flavor. >> at the intersection of ai and the internet of things you can picture a worldwide that will get strange quickly. >> there's smart contact lenses. then ai will be super important because you'll walk down the street and yo

we were recently approached by jon favreau, the director of "the jungle book" and ironman -- "iron manmmediately interested in exploring it, and we are developing something. charlie: and talk about games. where it is in respect to games. >> games were a natural fit. 30 years in the game business, had gotten to the point personally where games were kind of repeating what had been done. and then i thought virtual-reality. that is what brought me back. inherently, computers were built for virtual reality. they can render every frame as you are moving around. that is what creates the immersion in the building. thoroughly to that, aliens, or goes, or whatever you want -- or want,, or whatever you and you can really put people in the game. you can now put people in the game. we are about to release touch controllers, where your hands show up. you have a trigger and you can use it for a gun, but you can also point or do a thumbs up. totally new way of interacting inside again, and feeling like -- inside a game and feeling like the game is around you. absolutely fantastic. it will really add t

jon favreau served as the white house director of each writing.e left washington in 2013 to go found fenway strategies. john leavitt 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 an

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 a favorite moment from last year or the year before working with the p

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