Chip Franklin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American comedian
Date of Birth: 29-Mar-1965
Place of Birth: Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States
Profession: comedian
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Chip Franklin
- Chip Franklin is a nationally known talk show host, writer, producer, comedian and musician.
- For the last 20+ years, he's been a talk show host, and is currently on KGO in San Francisco, California.
- He is also former host of a talk show on KOGO in San Diego, California and WBAL AM 1090 in Baltimore, Maryland and at WMAL in Washington DC.
- The Washington Post's Marc Fisher says "Franklin adds a rare dose of irony to a medium that rarely trusts its audience to get the joke.” In San Diego and Baltimore, Washington DC, Franklin is also known as a comedian and frequents clubs in the markets. A Democratic strategist, Franklin often uses humor to voice his opinion on government policies.
- He has won 2 National Edward R.
- Murrow awards and five regional Murrows for his satiric essays on politics. He has also won five Achievement in Radio Best Talk Show Host awards.
- Talkers Magazine has listed Chip as one of the top 100 talk show hosts in the country for five straight years, most recently at #97 in the 2008 edition of the Heavy 100.
- Chip started at San Diego's KOGO on September 4, 2007.
- During his time at KOGO, Chip went through: earthquake, the La Jolla landslide in October 2007, and the October Firestorm. Franklin has appeared numerous times on everything from MTV, Showtime, A&E Evening at The Improv, The O'Reilly Factor, CNN, Paula Zahn, Fox and Friends, The Situation Room, and MSNBC.
- His series, CURB YOUR INTELLIGENCE, random on-the-street interviews generated national buzz and a feature on CNN in early 2007 when he asked people if they still blamed Barack Obama for 9/11.
- He has continued with this segment in San Diego, renaming it Arrested Intelligence.
- The produced segments are available as podcasts at ChipFranklin.com. A show on WBAL 1090 AM that featured the Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department was subpoenaed by a federal grand jury.
- Chip Franklin was heard from 9:00 a.m., until noon in Baltimore. A veteran stand-up comic, Chip has headlined thousands of shows as a stand-up, speaker, and featured guest.
- He has over a dozen appearances on national television, including Evening at The Improv, Comic Strip Live, VH-1 Standup Spotlight, MTV, Comedy Central, The CBS Morning Show, and The A-List on A&E.
- He has also contributed jokes to The Tonight Show.
- Franklin also writes and directs short films and has won numerous awards from festivals in the U.S. Franklin hosts his own radio show weekdays from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m.
- on the legendary KGO radio in San Francisco. Born in Alexandria, VA, Chip is the youngest of five children.
- His father was a Washington DC police officer and his mother was an assistant in the U.S.
- Attorney's office.
- Chip is married and has two sons.
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