Jon Lovett, a former speechwriter for President Obama, showed his new NBC sitcom 1600 Penn to reporters yesterday. It wasn’t good.

Sixteen years after he recklessly endangered the office of the president by leading a counterattack against a destructive alien invasion, Bill Pullman is returning to the White House.

FRIDAY: >> Attention all nerds: This is like our Lollapalooza or something. First Person: Stories from the Edge of the World is an event being held tonight by National Geographic Live, which features some sort of “collaboration” between NPR’s Neal Conan and Liane Hansen, the Celtic/early music crossover group Ensemble Galilei, and actor Bill Pullman. Together this crew will narrate excerpts from the journals of great explorers such as Jacques Cousteau, George Mallory, and Charles…