Darrel is doing just fine. He is the announcer on SNL (replaced Don Pardo after he died). And he does appear occasionally in skits.
.Maybe it's the same advertising company who hired the creepy Trivago guy.
I agree completely. There are too many of us that still remember the real Colonel Sanders and what he looked like and how he talked. Wait another 20 years and it should work alright.
) but surely they could have found a no-name real actor who could have really acted and embodied the Colonel.
The thing that I found distasteful was the fact that he did look a lot like the old Coronal and to those that have only seen his image on the sign or bucket it could almost translate to real. If he had just said... Hi I'm the Coronal instead, I'm Coronal Sanders, I would have been less concerned. Burger King or Ronald McDonald and even Mickey Mouse are corporate symbols, not real things. It would be the same if they hired someone to imitate Dave Thomas to promote Wendy's. Hard to describe, but, definitely felt strange.I think part of the problem was that they hired a comedian who does impersonations. "Impersonations" aren't the same as a real actor believably embodying person. Hammond has the accent and physical mannerisms and through all the hair & makeup the look, but he doesn't have the skills to believably act & embody the essence of the real Colonel. Thus, he's coming out creepy under the hair, makeup & accent. An impersonation is always what it is, an obviously superficial copy. Daniel Day Lewis embodied Abraham Lincoln when he did that role. We believed him as Lincoln. KFC can't afford Day Lewis, (nor would DDL want to do it,
OR for the amount of money they must have paid Hammond, they could have done the special effects that Natalie Cole did with inserted actual nostalgic, filmed footage of her father Nat King Cole, in her Unforgettable music video, only inserting real, old commercial footage of the real Colonel into a new "nostalgic" commercial.
Even the Snickers commercials use actual old footage from old TV shows and inserts them into a modern commercial. Like the Brady Bunch Snickers commercial with "Marcia" needing to eat a Snickers bar.
I think the commercials are amazingly creepy.
This. Exactly. A bucket of Colonel Sanders' Kentucky Fried Chicken was a real taste treat for our family when I was growing up. Never a piece left. If you brought a bucket to any picnic, it was guaranteed to be popular with your group.
