I’ve plugged Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny before, but I’m going to do it again, because this week, they have made the bold decision to drop the shackles of corporate support and go off on their own.  Jamie and Allison are a married couple, and their Citizen Radio is one of the few sources out there that blends comedy and real news and analysis without either side suffering.

And this week, they interviewed Rachel Maddow!

Last night, Jamie sent me an e-mail that described the phenomenon they’ve created:

The show has gotten millions of kids who were not politically active and made them politically active. It really is radio for outcasts, and the emails we get would bring you to tears. The live shows sell out and have comedy kids listening to people like Matt Taibbi and Jeremy Scahill, while audience members like Amy Goodman laugh at us and Janeane Garofalo.

That, kids, is pretty awesome.

So, go check them out, and continue to do so until I tell you otherwise.

So here’s a Monday Funday video for you that has nothing to do with anything.

HOWEVER, if you ever harbored a secret desire to Be A Blogger,* then Jamie Kilstein and Allison Kilkenny have made a helpful video to learn you the basics.  If you are not familiar with them, they are married, to each other, and they have a fancy radio show called Citizen Radio, where they talk to everyone from Digby to Moby, about politics and whatever else floats their goose.  Also, they are very funny.  Jamie’s hobby is coming up with fancy terms to describe Ted Haggard’s sexual escapades, and Allison’s hobby is making finger porn, which is every bit as sexy as it sounds.  (Also, she has a blog, which is brilliant, and which you should be reading.  But the finger porn is the most important part.)

So, anyway, in this video, Allison reveals The Process behind her brilliance, which involves knives.  My process is actually much simpler, but no less violent.  But we’ll leave that for a later date!

*No, I mean, a GOOD blogger.

Jamie Kilstein is one of my very favorite comedians. He and his wife Allison Kilkenny (who I link here from time to time) run Citizen Radio, and they’re one of the few duos I’ve seen who truly bridge the gap between politics and comedy, without either side suffering. Jamie’s insanely funny, but he actually knows his stuff. And if he doesn’t, he can always ask Allison, because she’s scary smart.

ANYWAY.

The other night, Jamie performed in Chicago, and he just cold went off on Rick Warren, Ted Haggard, anti-gay fundamentalist bigots, and made one of the boldest, most raw arguments for LGBT equality I’ve ever seen.

So! You should watch it. But not at work. Unless you have headphones. Because it’s, as Jamie just said on his Facebook wall, “beyond offensive.”

So here’s your warning, in red, in case you missed the last paragraph:

DIRTY LANGUAGE IS AHEAD!!!

Okay, that all clear? Oh, and handling the objection before I get it, in the parts where Jamie’s talking about God, we should all remember that the construction is “IF God is like they say, THEN we should…”

I won’t ruin it.

Enjoy!