Jamie Kilstein
Comedian — New York, NY
Jamie has been seen on Conan, MSNBC's Up with Chris and the Melissa Harris Perry Show, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, Showtime's The Green Room, CNN's The Joy Behar Show, The Paramount Comedy Channel in the UK, The BBC, The Comedy Channel in Australia, HBO Canada, and Showtime Comedy in the Middle East. He has also got to perform at The Reason Rally and was the only speaker to be asked to do a second set!
He cohosts Citizen Radio, which has been praised by Janeane Garofalo, Noam Chomsky, and Robin Williams. Jamie and his co-host were named by The Nation Magazine as top "media heroes." Most importantly, Glenn Beck has called him a "doofus" and "goofball" and Jonah Goldberg refuses to fight him.
Citizen Radio is dedicated to covering the stories that the mainstream, corporate media ignores. He has had the privilege of interviewing such guests as Rachel Maddow, Bad Religion, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Matt Taibbi, Jeremy Scahill, Rise Against, Robin Williams, Janeane Garofalo, Moby, Sarah Silverman, Naomi Klein, Amy Goodman, Chris Hayes, Regina Spektor, and more. He has also been the recipient of batshit crazy threatening letters by the hate group God Hates Fags.
Reviews of Jamie Kilstein:
“Watching Jamie reminds me of why I got into comedy. It is like watching a combination of George Carlin and Bill Hicks.” - Janeane Garofalo
"There are few truly insightful, passionate and hysterically funny political comedians around, and even fewer coming out of the States. New Yorker Jamie Kilstein is a shining light probing into the murkier corners of the religious right and corrupt politics of his homeland. Funny and penetrating, he’s taken Bill Hicks’ baton and run with it." - Time Out London
Jamie can be reached at jamiekilstein@gmail.com
