NBC to unveil ‘1600 Penn,’ a new Washington comedy

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NBC to unveil ‘1600 Penn,’ a new Washington comedy

NBC - The cast of “1600 Penn.”



By Lisa De Moraes, Published: May 8


NBC has added another member in the pantheon of TV series about dysfunctional Washington.

The network — which on Monday will officially unveil its prime-time plans for next season, kicking off an orgy of new-sked unveiling known as the Broadcast Networks’ Upfront Week — has ordered a comedy called “1600 Penn.” The show, about a dysfunctional first family, is exec-produced by, among others, former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett.

Before Lovett left Washington (in September) for Dottyville on the Pacific, he wrote many of President Obama’s speeches about financial reform, seeded laugh lines into Rahm Emanuel’s commencement speeches and wrote gags for Obama’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner remarks.

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1. Why Does This Remind Me Of This?......

[mucifer]

2. I think the new one has a fiction family

While the one in your post they actually played the Kennedy family. It was funny.

[Lawlbringer]

3. Bill Pullman as President again?

Sounds good to me. As cheesy as Independence Day was, he did play a pretty stand-up Prez.