President Barack Obama's former chief speechwriter, Jon Favreau revealed that president got serious as he went through one of the jokes.
Favreau, who recently appeared on Open Mike with Mike Allen said that in 2011, Jon Lovett, David Axelrod and him were about to go into the Oval office on the day of the correspondents' dinner to do one more last run through, Politico reported.
Favreau asserted that Obama was like, there was one joke he would like to change and he said that since the punch line had Osama bin Laden in it, he wanted another bad guy to use, some other dictator.
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