Chip Franklin

Media Swiss Army Knife

Chip Franklin is an award-winning writer, talk show host, filmmaker, comedian, and musician. A twenty five-year veteran of talk radio, Chip’s also been awarded the National Edward R. Murrow Award Writing and overall excellence. In addition, Franklin has been honored by The New York Festival for his unconventional coverage of The Democratic and Republican conventions and received more than 30 AP awards for writing and broadcasting. Chip has written for Steve Allen, Jay Leno, and even renowned physicist Stephen Hawking. Hosting talk radio shows in Washington DC, Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, San Diego, and most recently San Francisco, Chip appears regularly on ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, the BBC and CNN.

Video

Chip’s What The Franklin videos have over 500 million views and have been featured in the New York Times, Newsweek, and The Wall Street Journal. Franklin has also written and directed award winning short films and has been featured at the American Film Institute.

TV and Radio

Chip Franklin

In addition to more than 25 years hosting political talk radio, from Washington DC to San Francisco, Chip Franklin has appeared numerous times on network TV shows including HBO’s The Wire, Showtime, A&E Evening at The Improv, The O’Reilly Factor, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson, CNN, Paula Zahn, Fox and Friends, The Situation Room, and MSNBC. (Chip was temporarily banned from FOX for holding a picture of John McCain in an attempt to taunt president Trump.) His series, ARRESTED INTELLIGENCE, random on-the-street interviews, generated national buzz and a feature on CNN in early 2011 when he asked people which health care plan they preferred; Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act. (The answers were understandably frightening.)

Chip has interviewed the hilarious and notorious, from inmates at San Quentin to Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George Bush, Stephen Hawking, Jerry Seinfeld, Stormy Daniels and Monica Lewinsky. A show on WBAL in Baltimore, featuring the Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department, was subpoenaed by a federal grand jury and led to his conviction and imprisonment. The commissioner, not Chip. At least not yet.

Chip currently hosts two podcasts;

  • What The Franklin – Interviews with artists and sh*t-stirrers
  • MRiQ.com – The world’s smartest people answer life’s toughest questions

Social

Chip Franklin on Twitter

Franklin’s Twitter videos and posts have a following of more than half a million, including such diverse celebrities as Dan Rather, Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo, Kathy Griffin, author and intelligence analyst Malcolm Nance, former assistant Director of the FBI Frank Figluizzi, Jane Lynch, Gordon Ramsey, Marina Navratilova, and more than 30 members of Congress, plus senior editors and writers at The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Chip’s Posts have appeared in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He has a strong and loyal following on Facebook, Instagram and Tik Tok.

Chip Franklin on Twitter

Comedy

Chip has performed stand-up comedy since 1980, appearing on network television and at over 700 colleges and clubs across the US and Canada. He has toured with Chicago, Randy Newman, The Ramones and Kool and the Gang, as well as appearing at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Chip is currently finishing a non-fiction biography, focusing on comedy’s sharp end of the stick; Punching Up; Comedians Speaking Truth To Power, set for release in 2025.

Chip has performed stand-up comedy since 1980, appearing on network television and at over 700 colleges and clubs across the US and Canada. He has toured with Chicago, Randy Newman, The Ramones and Kool and the Gang, as well as appearing at the Montreal Comedy Festival. Chip is currently finishing a non-fiction biography, focusing on comedy’s sharp end of the stick; Punching Up; Comedians Speaking Truth To Power, set for release in 2025.

Writing

Chip is the winner of the National 2004 Edward R Murrow award for writing, as well as seven regional Murrow awards for satire and his latest effort TALK IS DEAD, a current and controversial history of talk radio, peering deep inside both the progressive and conservative influence, while chronicling his 28 years as a broadcaster. He has also written award winning screenplays; “The Money Shot,” a comedy written and directed by Chip debuted at The American Film Institute in Washington DC and the original screenplay “John Doe 24” received an honorable mention that same year. Chip’s latest non-fiction work is “1968,” a look at a turbulent year through the eyes of a twelve year old, will be released in the first half of 2024.

Chip has written comedy for Jay Leno, Steve Allen and once wrote a joke for Stephen Hawking. Ask him about that.

Chip Franklin performing

Music

Chip Franklin performing

The Washington Post’s Joe Brown said of Chip’s eponymous debut, A Dangerous Man, “The musicianship is practically peerless.” The album featured the talents of Grammy winners Jon Carroll of The Starland Vocal Band and multi-platinum artist Mary-Chapin Carpenter. Franklin will release The Truth Is This in 2025, a collection of nine original recordings.

Tragically Hip

That's Why I Hate the Beach Boys

A Dangerous Man

Missles In Europe

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