--- title: Jon Savitt | TIME description: Jon Savitt is a writer and comedian. canonical: https://time.com/author/jon-savitt/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/jon-savitt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jon Savitt ## Jon Savitt _Jon Savitt is a writer and comedian._ ## Jon Savitt *  Feb 18, 2016 ### [This Is the Person You Most Need to Take on a Date](https://time.com/4227629/dine-out-alone/) Yourself [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 18, 2015 ### [Your New Year’s Resolution Should Make You Laugh](https://time.com/4149549/new-years-resolution-laughter/) Humor offers us a way to try and make sense of the chaos around us [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Nov 10, 2015 ### [Why ‘Holidays’ Are Better Than ‘Christmas’](https://time.com/4106253/starbucks-holiday-cups/) Starbucks was right to remove religious symbols from its holiday cup [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/jon-savitt/","name":"Jon Savitt"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/jon-savitt/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/jon-savitt/"},"name":"Jon Savitt","jobTitle":null,"description":"Jon Savitt is a writer and comedian.","url":"https://time.com/author/jon-savitt/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```