Jamie Kilstein

Tons of tour dates coming up. Cleveland, Madison, Newport/Cincinnati, New Orleans, Austin, Seattle and the UK for Leeds and Reading Festivals and the London VegFest. Check out the gigs page for tickets!

Yo maniacs, got some dates coming up in Boston, San Fran, Chicago, and Philly. Check it out on the tour page then come hear me yell about some bullshit.

There are some moments in life you will never forget: when you fall in love, for example. And I don’t mean when you see someone you want to go to bed with. I mean love. As in your first thought isn’t, “wow look at them” it’s more like “aw, shit.” Like “fuck, everything is about to change.”

There is the first moment you stand up to your parents, the time you think you invented masturbation, and so on.

Going down to see Occupy Wall Street gets added to that list. Seeing people put their bodies on the line to stand up to bullies is one of the most powerful things I’ve witnessed. Seeing people who are called “unorganized” set up a water filtration systems, a kitchen, lost and found, teach-ins, law seminars, marches with unions, and a media center in the middle of a fucking park, was so jaw-dropping I was at a loss for words. To be honest, there is way too much to describe here, but if you want to hear coverage and interviews with guests like Naomi Klein, and marchers and organizers, check out last week’s Citizen Radio at wearecitizenradio.com

This is why the next night I decided to perform for them. However, every artist assumes they are not good enough so I called all my famous friends, and the only one that agreed to do it was the one I assumed was way too big to do it, but was so inspired by the movement he had no choice. As he says in the interview “It’s the truest America I’ve ever seen.”

Here is J.A Myerson leading the kids in the Peoples Mic, my performance, and Talib Kweli. And for the interview check out the October 10th Citizen Radio.

Thank you to everyone who purchased and wrote me such nice letters and tweets about the new CD. I’m so proud of it and am thrilled that you all like it.

If you have not ordered your copy yet I would love to get it to number one by the end of the day.

Here is the link! http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/libel-slander-sedition/id458021027

OH! And if you can rate and review the fuck out of it on ITUNES and Amazon!

http://www.amazon.com/Libel-Slander-Sedition-Jamie-Kilstein/dp/B005HUWMNQ

Thanks again, you guys are the best.

Hello friends, and people who found me because of a terrible accident that will end in a mean comment I shouldn’t let bother me but will — I’m on SHOWTIME this Thursday!

Myself, Lewis Black, Kathleen Madigan and Ron White will be on this week’s episode of The Green Room with Paul Provenza. Catch the premiere Thursday, August 4th at 11PM on Showtime with repeats throughout the next week.

Here is an interview with Lewis Black that has a clip of the two of us talking. Plus he says my name and confirms he knows me. Is this why I’m posting this? No. (Yes.) ITS HERE!

The show celebrates everything comedy should be: asking questions, challenging assholes, and free speech. Go back and check out the season premiere with Judd Apatow, Marc Maron, Bo Burnham, Garry Shandling, and Ray Romano. Also, Paul is rocking a Citizen Radio shirt. It’s pretty great.

Here are some things you won’t hear on The Green Room –

- I’ll be selling merch after the show!

- “So, how long have you two been seeing each other? OH SHE ANSWERED BEFORE YOU. YOU’RE IN TROUBLE! (Followed by some sort of dance.)

- “Let that be a black guy” followed by something incredibly racist.

- “Why did I get into comedy? The money.” You can replace money with respect, fame, love, so people would have the decency not to spit at me, etc.

- “It’s like they say in Entourage…”

- “Picture it, it’s Two and a Half Men meets Friends Meets Sex in The City.”

- “I’m really happy.”

Check out all the air times, plus clips and photos at The Green Room WEBSITE!

The amount of times satirists or storytellers have told relatives they do comedy — only to hear “so you do impressions?” or “you mean like skits?”– is too high a number to repeat here. (26,678,456)

The fact that bachelor and lady bachelor parties attend comedy clubs shows a failure on comedy’s part to explain what we do. Who shows up with cockhats, blinking necklaces, and shirts that say “put it in this hole” with an arrow pointing up, to sit quietly for a two hour show? What Best Man brings his mates out to a club, where you are supposed to sit and contemplate, while making sure that your cell phone is silenced?

The reason that these hordes of animals come to a comedy club is because they think the night will be all about them. When I was in Minneapolis, a bachelor party showed up. One of the dudes was wearing a huge crown, and another was wearing an over-sized pretend mustache.You do not wear that unless you want someone to say something. No one is getting ready to hit the streets, maybe chat up a lady or two, and then says  “WAIT! Where is my giant pretend Mustache?! I’m not going anywhere until I look like a child fiddler or cast member of There Will Be Blood.”

They assumed they would wear it, the comedian would say something, and then the show would be theirs!

What I thought was so great was none of the comics said a word to them. No attention was paid to the man in the crown or the dude wearing the mustache. When you hope for attention by wearing that, and no one says anything, it’s suddenly not funny. It’s really sad. A sad man, in the corner of a dark comedy club, wearing a pretend mustache.

No one sees Doug Stanhope or Daniel Kitson and thinks: “Gather the girls and the dildo hats! I know what I’m doing before I get married!” They see boring, bland, hacky, dogshit comedy and think, “You know what’s almost as funny as that dude on TV? A dildo hat!” And they are right.

Hey everyone, Ill be blogging more now that I’m back. I have two half written angry posts that I’ve all ready started but for now subscribe to Citizen Radio! Monday we had Glenn Greenwald from Salon today Noam Chomsky from Tosh 2.0 (sorry) and  friday lead singer of Bad Religion Greg Graffin! It’s fucking insane. ITUNES people go here and RSS go here

Come meet Citizen Radio while screaming shit about our illegal occupations. Citizen Radio first meetup for Sydney.

This Friday at town hall. We say fuck you to the war then go to the show at the manning bar. 530 at Town Hall. http://www.stopwarcoalition.org/

Then an hour and a half of new material here.

http://www.manningbar.com/Whats_On/Jamie_Kilstein.aspx?t=7&d=4618

Then my CD recording in Minneapolis at Acme Comedy Club, Chicago then San Fran. 2010 will also have a ton of new cities!

Also Citizen Radio is flying solo and doing great cause of you guys. We all ready have 100 paid members and were ranked number 4 for political podcasts on ITUNES.

This month we have Noam Chomsky, Bad Religion, Rachel Maddow, Anti Flag, Joe Rogan, Michael Ian Black, Birbiglia, Melissa Harris Lacewell, Reggie Watts and more.

I love you all.

So we left breakthruradio today and have gone rouge. We left a paycheck but felt that we needed to be somewhere totally independent. The new feed is up at wearecitizenradio.com and now you can search us on ITUNES or go here http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/citizen-radio/id387432077 to sign up, rate and review (which is important cause that will get us featured. Stop reading, go do that, then come back.) Our first to two guests are Rise Against and Maddow!

OK. You back? Did you treat yourself with a snack? You should. I can wait again. – OK. As you know Citizen Radio doesn’t pull punches too well and although BTR never censored us, we never knew what advertisers they would want us to take on one day. Not a risk worth taking.

So…the show is just Allison and Jamie now. We are doing everything by ourselves and have no paycheck. We really feel this embodies the pirate status we have all ready cultivated.

The goal is to build Citizen Radio to the point where we can hire reporters, film crews, and more. Then we can truly fuck things up.

You will all still get the show for free. BUT once we hit 500 members we can afford to go 5 days a week. If you can not afford a membership, then we ask that you do everything in your power to get new listeners into the show. This is true DIY radio for outcasts and with your help we can overpower the awful mainstream media that lead us into war.

Here are the membership perks and you can join at wearecitizenradio.com This is totally scary and exciting and we couldn’t do it without you. The guests are bigger, the talk angrier, and the king of the dolphins…well, he’s still dead. Much love. Citizen Radio

Citizen Radio 10 Monthly Subscription Plus Vagabond Status
You get – Our love and a listing on the membership page along with 5 episodes a week once we hit 500 members. Plus bonus members only content!

Citizen Radio 25 Monthly Subscription Plus Miscreant Status
You get – Our love, a listing on the membership page, Jamie Kilsteins CD Zombie Jesus and 5 episodes a week once we hit 500 members. Plus bonus members only content!

Citizen Radio 50 Monthly Subscription Plus Hoodlum Status

You get – Our love, Jamie Kilsteins CD Zombie Jesus (autographed by Allison and Jamie) a Citizen Radio shirt, 5 shows a week and listed as an official sponsor every episode!

Yearly Memberships – Save some cash!

Citizen Radio 110 Yearly Subscription Plus Rebel Status

You get – Our love and a listing on the membership page along with 5 episodes a week!

Citizen Radio 250 Yearly Subscription Plus Guerilla Status
You get – Our love, a listing on the membership page, Jamie Kilsteins CD Zombie Jesus and 5 episodes a week!

Citizen Radio 500 Yearly Subscription Plus PIRATE STATUS

You get – Our love, Jamie Kilsteins CD Zombie Jesus (autographed by Allison and Jamie) a Citizen Radio shirt, 5 shows a week and listed as an official sponsor every episode!

First – Citizen Radio is blowing the fuck up. It’s all cause of you guys. If you are new you can subscribe HERE

It’s radio for outcasts.

Upcoming guests Bad Religion! Noam Chomsky! Michael Ian Black! Joe Rogan! Mike Birbiglia! Anti Flag! Reggie Watts! Glenn Greenwald! Digby!Rise Against! Chris Hardwick, John Oliver, Robin Williams, Lewis Black and much more!

We also have a youtube channel with new standup from me at HERE

Shows – This week headlining Standford Comedy Club in Kansas City Get tickets HERE

All I know about Kansas is the god hates fags people live here and I have some really nice fans here and would like them to outnumber the crazy people.

Next week Vancouver with Marc Maron, Neil Hamburger, Eddie Pepitone, Glenn Wool and more crazy shit. Right now it looks like the show to catch is Edge of the Fest Tickets HERE

SYDNEY ONE NIGHT ONLY FULL LENGTH SET I have hung out with you crazy fucks before and Sydney and Chicago are tied for my favorite people in the world. The set is all new from the Comedy Store run last year and I want to sell this one out. It’s a huge music space so we are doing it punk rock style. Help me prove this shit can work with comedy and get tickets now! TICKETS

We are a commercial free word of mouth operation kids. If it wasn’t for you I would be dead. So thanks for that.