Jon Lovett, 42, an Obama speechwriter turned popular podcast host, is a co-founder of a political media company called Crooked Media, a co-host of “Pod Save America,” and a well-known liberal pundit. (Spoilers ahead.)

Jon Lovett began his Survivor 47 journey by saying that his friends and family wanted to see him suffer. Well, they certainly got their wish. Lovett became the latest recipient of the Sonja Christopher Golden Ukulele award when he was the first person voted out of the game by his Gata tribe.

While far from the first public figure to play Survivor, Lovett now has the dubious honor of being the casting stunt who crashed and burned the hardest/fastest. (In confessionals and promotional interviews,

On Wednesday’s premiere episode of “Survivor 47,” Jeff Probst declared the start to the season’s first immunity challenge “one of the worst starts to any challenge in 47 seasons.” In that contest, the six members of Gata were one of two tribes to capsize their paddle boat in the water,