Brian Whitman

Brian David Whitman (born August 17, 1972) is an American talk radio host and voice impressionist.

Whitman's start in radio came in 1986, at age 13, when Radio Legend Scott Shannon, then morning host and Program Director at New York's powerhouse Z-100 took note of Whitman's abilities.

According to Brian, he called into the popular "Z-100 Morning Zoo" show doing impressions of Ronald Reagan and Rodney Dangerfield.

Shannon invited him to the radio station to be a co-host for the morning.

"That was it," Whitman has said.

"On that morning, I decided what I wanted to do for a living. I owe it all to Scott. Scott even sent a limousine to my Mom and Dad's home on Staten Island and I was paid $100 for my performance on the air. This is why I hold up June 20, 1986 as the beginning of my career."

Brian's first radio job out of college was doing a fun afternoon show for his friend and program director Glenn Beck.

Glenn and Pat Gray did mornings on Top 40 music station KC101 in Connecticut and Whitman commuted daily from Staten Island to Hamden, CT to do afternoon drive.

Just weeks later, Brian got an offer he had to take.

He was hired by KKBH 102.9 The Beach in San Diego at 22 years old to host morning drive!

KKBH, owned by Gannett had a great relationship with Brian Whitman after his five years of contributions to their LA powerhouse The Rick Dees In The Morning Show on KIIS FM.

102.9 The Beach - which played "The Greatest Hits of the 70's" featured songs older than Brian!

After a year, Whitman was hired by San Diego's legendary rock station, 101 KGB FM, to host the morning show.

His on-air partner and producer was his former KKBH Program Director (and his future boss at KLSX in Los Angeles) Jack Silver.

Brian attended New York City Public High School and graduated from Tottenville High School in January, 1990.

From 1991 to 2005, Whitman served as the resident funny voice guy and comedic performer and writer on both The Rick Dees & Ryan Seacrest Morning Shows on KIIS FM in Los Angeles.

He operated his own national radio comedy service providing celebrity impressions, original characters and comedy bits to hundreds of stations nationwide beginning in 1991.

Stations included WPLJ-FM and WABC-AM in New York, WLUP-FM in Chicago, KIOI-FM in San Francisco, WEGX-FM in Philadelphia and WHYI-FM in Miami, as well as syndicated shows including The Sean Hannity Show, The Glenn Beck Program, The Mike Gallagher Show and The Stephanie Miller Show.

Whitman was born on Staten Island, New York and graduated from Wagner College in May 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science.

"The Brian and Jack Show" wrapped up in early 1997, when Whitman accepted a job offer from WABC in New York.

Brian formerly hosted The Brian Whitman Show on WABC in New York, New York, from 1997 to 2007 (he joined WABC at age 24, becoming the youngest talk host in the history of the legendary 77 WABC) Whitman also did a show broadcast on KABC in Los Angeles from 1998 to 2005.

In 2000, Whitman was the morning host for a nationally syndicated comedy radio network (that also provided an ahead-of-its-time internet audio and video stream) called Comedy World.

At Los Angeles based Comedy World he kicked off a programming lineup that included comedians Craig Shoemaker and Bobby Slayton.

Whitman's uncanny celebrity impressions have fooled mainstream media and others.

In the 90's he made an unforgettable phone call to Former Vice President Dan Quayle as President Clinton and a duped Quayle talked to "Clinton" for five minutes.

At the end of the conversation, Whitman broke character and let Quayle know that it was Brian Whitman calling and certainly not The President.

He resigned both KIIS and ABC Radio to join CBS Radio's KLSX FM in June, 2005.

A national radio interview in 2005 where he impersonated Michael Jackson had listeners and ABC Radio management believing that Jackson was indeed on their radio.

More recently, a radio skit that he did with co-host Tim Conway, Jr., where he played Don Imus (at the height of an Imus controversy) prompted the Los Angeles Times to report that the real Don Imus was on the air, even quoting Whitman's "Imus" character.

When informed of the bit, the Times promptly printed a retraction.

At the time, Whitman expressed utter disbelief that The LA Times would have fallen for what was an obvious comedy bit.

During this time, Whitman toured America with his friend and political nemesis Sean Hannity performing live shows, entertaining huge crowds in cities like NY, LA, Dallas, San Diego, Phoenix, Las Vegas and many more!

Media superstar Glenn Beck, a twenty-year friend of Whitman, writes about the Imus controversy sparked by Brian in his bestseller, "An Inconvenient Book."

Whitman co-hosted The Conway and Whitman Show on KLSX in Los Angeles, California, with Tim Conway Jr.. from 2005 to 2008.

Whitman also hosted a weekday morning webcast on Rick Dees Entertainment's allnumber1hits.com in 2009.

Brian Whitman was a featured contributor to Glenn Beck's radio and television programs.

When he appeared as Glenn Beck's very first guest on Glenn's first TV show on cable news, Brian Said he was proud and honored to be asked.

Beck and Whitman had been friends for fifteen years and Beck wanted Whitman to be his first guest.

On the air Whitman quipped, "So, I'm guessing The Pope wasn't available tonight?"

Brian also served as the regular fill-in host on Beck's nationally syndicated radio program for years.