Kevin Bleyer

Kevin Bleyer is an Emmy, Peabody, and Writers Guild Award-winning television writer, a two decade veteran of THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART, DENNIS MILLER, and POLITICALLY INCORRECT WITH BILL MAHER. He is the author of Me the People: One Man’s Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution, the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Earth: The Book. As a speechwriter, he contributed to many of the (funnier) speeches of President Barack Obama, including all eight of the president’s addresses to the annual White House Correspondents Dinner. The Co-Founder of Pilot Media Initiatives, he has helped launch political satire television programs in Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, and Nigeria.

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