Chuck Knipp

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Chuck Knipp is an American comedian best known for creating the popular radio, internet and stage personas "Shirley Q. Liquor," "Betty Butterfield," and "Dr. Williams." His comedy shows have won both acclaim and dissent. While Knipp believes his characters are exaggerated Southern personas, some have called his stage and radio act racist and insensitive. Knipp has said he is happy to be a lightning rod if it facilitates discussion of stereotypes and racial notions.

Knipp is a minister of the Quaker Universalist Fellowship and a member of the American Association of Professional Chaplains. He was ordained to the Diaconate in 1997 by a bishop of the Friends Catholic Communion. Knipp is incardinated with the White Robed Monks of St. Benedict and his special ministries are to same-sex couples, those in prison, and those undergoing terminal illness.

Knipp is a Registered Nurse with extensive background in emergency, intensive care and psychiatric nursing. After attending the University of Texas and Ole Miss, he graduated from Lamar University in 1984. He is currently employed in pastoral hospice care.

Knipp is a citizen of both the United States and Canada, active in the ACLU and Libertarian Party and was nominated as their candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000. (Texas, District 2). He is a commissioned notary public at large for the State of Kentucky

Born in Fullerton, California, in 1961; raised in Orange, Texas, currently living in Lexington, Kentucky.