Chip’s act kept us in stitches!
Josh Board, Jan 2008
By Marc Fisher
Franklin adds a rare dose of irony to a medium that rarely trusts it’s audience to get the joke.
Over on the stronger talk station, Chip Franklin has made the successful transition from stand-up comic to talk show host. His talk show surprises and occasionally even informs. Franklin has found a happy medium between the political talk that cynical radio executives believe doesn’t appeal to a broad enough audience and the so called hot talk that rouses the rabble with salacious blather about sex, money, and the petty jealousies of daily life. Franklin adds a rare dose of irony to a medium that rarely trusts it’s audience to get the joke.
A Comic Walks In
By Eric Brace
Washington Post Staff Writer
Franklin’s stand-up act is one of the best…Franklin happily jabs anything remotely PC, even though he’s clearly a sensitive modern man underneath his cynical comedian’s skin. “It’s just that you can find such easy targets in the whole political correctness arena,” Franklin says. “There’s so much hypocrisy, it’s almost too easy.”
