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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's own '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 Nixon, Ford, Bush and Clinton as well as Canadian Prime Ministers Mulroney and Crétien. 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,〔Transy Radio -〕 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 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 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. ==Support== * The entertainer RuPaul has long been a fan and supporter of Knipp. "Critics who think that Shirley Q. Liquor is offensive are idiots. Listen, I've been discriminated against by everybody in the world: gay people, black people, whatever. I know discrimination, I know racism, I know it very intimately. She's not racist, and if she were, she wouldn't be on my new CD."〔(southerndecadence.net )〕 In his blog, RuPaul adds: "I am very sensitive to issues of racism, sexism and discrimination. I am a gay black man, who started my career as a professional transvestite in Georgia, twenty years ago."〔RuPaul. "These Folks Is Just Plain Ignunt!" ((blog entry) ) 3 November 2002〕 * The ''Boston Phoenix'' journalist Dan Kennedy awarded Boston government official Jerome Smith the dubious Muzzle Award for his part in the cancellation of Knipp's scheduled performance in Boston in 2004.〔Kennedy, Dan. "The sixth annual Muzzle Awards", ''The Boston Phoenix'', 10 July 2003〕 * The writer David Holthouse, the anti-racist investigator for the Southern Poverty Law Center's ''Intelligence Report'', stated that "Knipp is in no way a white supremacist" and that Knipp "invites the audience to sympathize with a single Black mother". An in-depth article was printed in the June, 2007, edition of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine. * The ''New York Blade'' criticized GLAAD for condemning Knipp, stating, "We commend GLAAD for condemning racism, but we question whether the organization’s goal is best attained by joining this particular fight."〔(GLAAD’s New Act ), ''The New York Blade Online'', 23 February 2007〕 * John Strausbaugh, the author of ''Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture'', explores Liquor's act in his book. * Syndicated radio host Michael Berry, a native of Orange, Texas, plays frequent clips and often live phone interviews with Knipp's characters. Berry has adopted two children from Ethiopia, who now see themselves as Texans. Knipp concedes that his performances should make people uncomfortable because "we all are used to treating African Americans as if their skin colour is a disease" and that black people are sometimes "more than intelligent enough to discern the nuance" of his performances. He has also said that "many people thought that Harriet Beecher-Stowe's ''Uncle Tom's Cabin'' was and still is perceived as racist, despite being the probable artistic genesis of emotional support against slavery in the 19th century." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chuck Knipp」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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