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.
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.
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.
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.
[2] 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.
At Los Angeles based Comedy World he kicked off a programming lineup that included comedians Craig Shoemaker and Bobby Slayton.
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."
While Brian's success in media is overwhelmingly due to his comedic talents, Whitman has also talked openly on his radio programs, as well as podcasts, about deeply personal issues ranging from the untimely passing of his parents only weeks apart to struggles with depression and dependence on medication that he has dealt with in a very public way.
Whitman's been impersonating Regis for years and a similar phone call to WPLJ-New York's Scott Shannon morning radio show warranted a mention in Philbin's bestselling memoir, "I'm Only One Man."
In November, 2012 Whitman took more of a lead role on "The Morning Answer with Heidi, Brian and Ben," serving as the on-air anchor while continuing to contribute his comedic impressions, often liberal political arguments and humorous observations to the dialogue.
The new show, called "The Morning Answer with Brian Whitman, Ben Shapiro and Elisha Krauss" officially debuted across Southern California on April 2, 2013.
Salem was not at all interested in losing Whitman, the anchor of their Morning Answer Show, and was aggressive in inking a deal with Brian that would have him in the co-anchor chair through the end of 2017.
On August 17, 2017, the station celebrated his 45th birthday (see external link) with a call from Phil Boyce, Salem Media VP of broadcasting, announcing that they have renewed his contract to continue co-hosting mornings with Jennifer Horn.
Whitman tweeted in January 2020 that the producers of The Adam Carolla Show kindly passed along that they received an extraordinary positive reaction to Brian's December, 2019 guest appearance.
On Monday January 27, 2020 Brian Whitman made his fourth visit to Adam Carolla's incredibly successful daily podcast.
(Throughout this time Whitman was also operating his nationally syndicated comedy service, which he launched in January, 1991 and was also filling in for nationally syndicated radio stars like Glenn Beck, Mike Gallagher, Randi Rhodes, Stephanie Miller and Montel Williams) Some of Whitman's many voice impressions include: Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Jay Leno, Chris Matthews, Don Imus, Louie Anderson, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Tim Conway Jr., Rick Dees, Bob Dole, Al Gore, Senator Ted Kennedy, Kenny Kingston, Tom Leykis, Jack Nicholson, Al Rantel, Judge Larry Seidlin, Jack Silver, Don Pardo, Regis Philbin, Frosty Stillwell, George Noory, Alex Trebek, Gene Rayburn, Michael Jackson, Donald Trump and Arnold Schwarzenegger .