Watch: Bill Maher and Jane Lynch's dramatic reading of "The Weinerlogues"

The public shaming of an indiscreetly amorous congressman continues, and Bill Maher recruited upcoming Emmys host Jane Lynch to join him on Real Time last night for a dramatic, verbatim recitation of text from actual communications between Rep. Anthony Weiner and a Las Vegas blackjack dealer named Lisa Weiss. (Dare I say Tiger Woods is jealous?)

"Dame" Jane Lynch steals the show here, with her supremely meta-ironic reading of the Lisa lines, as softly tinkling chamber music plays in the background. It comes off as a radio play from the forties, only with anachronistic subject matter and candor. "The Weinerlogues" at least elevates Weinergate to a rung on the comedy ladder a little higher than bad puns. It's official: this whole tawdry ball of wax is here to stay. Best to make a candle out of it and hold vigil for a pre-internet world where the dissemination of humiliation wasn't the common currency. (Grouchy grandfather voice: "And stay off my lawn!")