Chuck Knipp

Chuck Knipp (born 1961) is an American Canadian (dual citizenship) comedian best known for his controversial vocal characterisations heard on radio – the "Mammy Welfare Queen", Shirley Q. Liquor; histrionic North Dakota Marge; Orangefield resident Delbert Peveto; and the tragic searcher for any kind of spirituality, Betty Butterfield. Knipp also does radio vocal impersonations of Madalyn Murray O'Hair, Al Gore, Barbara Jordan, H. Ross Perot, U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George Bush and Bill Clinton as well as Canadian Prime Ministers Brian Mulroney and Jean Chrétien. He is known for radio advertisements in Southeast Texas as well as widespread protests against his performances. Lesser-known works are his assortment of characters in an imaginary transsexual drag show, a continuing web-based series, featuring characters Sissy St James, Mrs. Valerie Valingtimes, Mavis McDougall, Wanda Melon, Lindsey the Mediator, "Placidia the Robot Transy" and the "Bitter Comic". Valerie Valingtimes was recently featured as the voice of a flight attendant in a remix on RuPaul's Drag Race. (Season 7, Episode 2). Knipp is a member of the Libertarian Party and was nominated as their candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000 for Texas, District 2. He is a member of The Quaker Universalist Fellowship and Silent Unity.