Chip Franklin

Stand Up Comedy
Chip is a veteran standup comedian with dozens of nationally televised performances. TV Guide says, “Chip is funny.” The Washington Post says, “Chip tilts the PC windmills… Hilarious- Franklin’s stand-up act is one of the best.”

With over a dozen appearances on national televison, including Evening at The Improv, Comic Strip Live, VH-1 Standup Spotlight, Fox and Friends, MTV, Comedy Central comedy specials, The CBS Morning Show, and The A-List on A&E, Chip has also written comedy for The Tonight Show and Politically Incorrect.

Film
Directed and written award winning films, such as 2007’s The Money Shot which was screened at the 2007 DC Shorts Film Festival, and won Best Screenplay and the Audience Award, and 2005’s Out There, was the winner of the Best Actor Award in the 2004, 2005 48 Hr. Film festivals.

Radio
Chip Franklin can be heard 5-9 mornings on San Diego’s legendary KOGO. Chip has won two National Edward R. Murrow Awards in 2007 and 2004 for “Overall Excellence” and “Writing,” (the only time it has ever been given to a talk-show host.) In addition, he was awarded the 2007 AP Award for Best Talk Show, the 2004 National Headliner Award for Broadcasting, and the 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004 Talkers Magazine’s Heavy 100, honoring the top radio personalities in the US. Chip is also a four-time winner of Achievement in Radio’s Best Talk Show Award.

Music
Released CD of original songs Dangerous Man, RPM recordings, that Washington Post’s Joe Brown called “superb… the musicianship is practically peerless!”

Other Stuff
I’m a lapsed skeptic who digs Warren Zevon, dogs, irrational numbers, Apple computers and Bill Hicks.

I will still challenge anyone to a game of one-on-one, (although I am frequently injured in the process). I love the change-up, the left-handed lay-up, and my nine-iron. Along the way I have driven over one million miles across the greatest country in America (sic) and seen enough to convince me all you need is the truth, and when that fails, a good lawyer. For what it’s worth, I still don’t have a lawyer.