Comedian David Alan Grier announced he will star in Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials as the new KFC Colonel Sanders.
“Breaking News: David Alan Grier has been cast as the first African American Colonel Sanders in the new KFC ad campaign. #KFC,” he tweeted on Thursday.
Some Twitter users expressed anger at the choice of a black man to portray the KFC icon. The controversy drew similarities to the Nina Simone biopic starring Latina actress Zoe Saldana.
NY daily News — Col. Harland Sanders, who died in 1980, became famous for his TV commercials marketing the finger licking good products.
Grier is the latest — and, by far, the most eye-catching — actor to play Col. Harland Sanders in KFC’s ongoing effort to rebrand itself.
In May, the company launched an ad campaign that revived the late Sanders in the form of “Saturday Night Live” comic Darrell Hammond.
Hammond’s gig was short lived, and he was replaced by fellow “SNL” alum Norm MacDonald, who also ended up being replaced when comic Jim Gaffigan took over.
But Grier, 60, is the first to cross what might be the ultimate racial divide.
DAG is 60???? He looks good.
I doubt he’s gonna be in white face. I hope not ?
What Leon Lonnie love getting them coins
Why David, why?!?
Hope this isn’t Mary J. Blige’s Burgers King commercial 2.0
Werd….this is about to piss a lot of people off
But yet we couldn’t allow Mary J to do her crispy chicken song…..
The Colonel is probably ready to come back to life at this point. LMAO!
I wonder will they put him in white face lol ??
Please tell me this is a joke.
Please.
Oh well… get that check however you can bro. #Nohate.
Greasy azz KFC
should’ve been Popeyes David 
No we will NOT allow all out spiritual sangin in the name of chicken.
The “secret” is out. Like Paula Deen, Colonial Sanders was using a slave’s recipe;))))))))))
That Popeyes woman ain’t giving up her gig, he better try Churchs.
:DEAD: lmao
He must have needed money real bad.
Shoal was lol
Has the word coon been dropped yet?
*waits cause I know it’s coming.*
What about someone telling him give back his check?
*scrolls*
Turns 60 in June.
A good example of
#blackdontcrack.
What is this sheet? Is anybody getting Samuel L Jackson from django with this whole get up? No? Well me either. Cook on
When does the Carmichael show come back on? DAG and Loretta Devine are hilarious.
Bout time they using somebody that we can believe fried that chicken, that old white man looked like he could only do rotisserie.
Yes indeed
David with KFC and Snoop with Burger King’s hot dogs lmao
They are dragging our image back to the days of Reconstruction coonish buffonish blackface mammys and uncle toms.
Fresh chicken, crispy lettuce ??
Could be worse I guess…
He could be endorsing some watermelon.
https://youtu.be/qDR33ve14dk
This should be interesting…like when Mary J. Blige was shucking and jiving for Burger King.
now u know u were supposed to jump on the table first
*hollering*
No but I am glad that they finally used the face of somebody who can actually season and fry the chicken right.
*cries slow* I knew u were coming *crawls under desk*
I’m sorry but I like my KFC to come with a man who reminds me of a confederate flag waving silver haired fox… who came up with this plan? They gone be like… “They take over everything!”
A lot of white folks are gonna have a problem with this. I can tell already.
Seeing their iconic Colonel Sanders portrayed by a black man? Nah. They aint gonna stand for it.
Not sure how to feel about David slanging chicken but I like his show ??
Well Sanders shoulda been black since the recipe was stolen from a slave and brought his yt azz billions..
#getthatcheck
The new KFC ‘mercials have been pretty funny ( to me ) & I think his style of comedy will fit right in with this new image they are projecting. Him being black is actually a smart marketing strategy ( to me ) hell, EVERYBODY ( all colors ) loves chicken
They paid Murry 2 million US American dollars
I CAME BACK JUST IN TIME! -PRESSES PLAY-
Shoot for that money, I would have shucked, jived and then went and bought my soul and blackness back. LOL
He is endorsing chicken it’s all the same—–The stereotype is all you have to do is a give a n*gger chicken and watermelon and he will be a happy slave. WAKE UP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyW6w5B7Aw
Slaves worked against their will and for free. Far from slavery.
Dead! ??
I don’t like the idea. But hell. It comes a time where money is fuggin GREEN
Naw, they give us gold teeth and big dookey rope chains now!!
Mary said she fired a lot ppl on her team after that shyt ??
Everytime them utility people’s letterhead pop in my door, money iz ideed green!!
??
Which was wrong. Hell she knew it was about chicken.
Fired them before or after the check cleared!!
Well, we have a black woman endorsing Popeye’s Chicken on national commercials.
Is she a “happy slave” too?
AND TORTILLLLLAAAAS
*wall slides*
Naw, she a black woman seasoning the hell out of that chicken and paying her bills. She ain’t shucking and jiving, she is doing what she does in the kitchen on film.
Maybe she got rid of a Messican too.
Exactly ain’t nobody to blame but yourself and Kendu
My only change would be that GAWD AWFUL suit!! I hate that suit with everything I am.
KenDont. What I call him.
And you still would’ve had $1,999,999.00 left to buy other things.
Well, we know he’s gonna get clowned for this, that’s for sure. I bet there’s bunch of black comedians writing up some new jokes based on this as we speak.
NOW IT WON’T BE COL. SANDERS WITHOUT THAT YT SUIT
She probably got the check before she even filmed the ‘mercial.
Looking like a male LisaRaye.
KenNot
KenAintdoneshiat
KenYouintheway
KenNottheBarbieone
If it was me, I wouldn’t care. Nor quit.
Black Twitter gon’ eat dis one up. *Pun Intended
Boom! There u go.
#gethatmoney #blackwealthisagoodthing
but she cashed that damn check lol
So, this isn’t anything but reparations, you say?
Yooooo…. I am HOLLERING (again) at this. Thank you TMC. I needed this. Its Throwback Thursday Too.
Wait, I may have to down vote you……..my soul is worth more then $1.00!
White ppl love that commercial because she’s talking like a mammy it reminds them of the good ol days when black ppl were their slaves.
STILL HATE THE SUIT!!
Did they have Crispy chicken at the meeting where dey got fired? #GrabOneOnYallWayOut #ToRememberWhatDaH3llYallDidToMe #TheySaltyCuzImSaltyRightNow
Well why do black people love it?!
Slavery wasn’t just physical is was mental.
Who here on this earth, was present during slavery? How in the hell can anyone recollect pre-Civil War accurately. Real question
No?
LOLOL!!!
No. Your soul is priceless. I was referring to your blackness. *shrugs* Bad joke/timing?!.
Our recipe anyway so this is long overdue ??
No, I am sleepy had an Italian Burger for lunch on potato bread.
Kisses
What if the real Colonel Sanders was Black? The only people I know with the last name Sanders are Black.
I need a DNA test…
CHARLENE IS CRACK DONTE! FROM START TO FINISH…GOOODT MUSIC!
Paula and a WHOLE lot of them got rich off black folks recipes. Her original shyt she got paid for was making Tuna and chicken salad sandwiches on white bread…She hired southern cooks and branded herself using their recipes…
There are black women all over Louisiana who talk like that in 2016.
This is halarious I can’t even get mad because I mean they should have been had a black C Sandars in the first place since we( so they say) eat more fried chicken then anyone else.
Potato bread? ? I don’t think I’ve ever eaten potato bread before. Sounds delightful.
Kisses to you, dear. Don’t be nodding off or farting on the job. Lol
Please I am at work.. crying with no sound!
LOVE THAT CHICKEN FROM POPEYES! QUITE LITERALLY
Well if he for real gone sport that White perm..might as well get stricken with reverse vitiligo…
#ColonelSoBlack … I know is comin.
A LOT OF PLACES ARE SWITCHING TO POTATO BUNS…I KNOW SONIC HAS THEM AS DOES FOX AND HOUND…MAYBE RED ROBIN ALSO. BACKYARD BURGERS SWITCHED TOO.
It’s all about marketing. They want to cater to black people because that’s who is spending the money just like McDonald’s commercials are now full of black people. Tim Joyner and his crew.
Shoot, I still slip into Gullah (GeeChee) every once in a while and haven’t lived down South in years. My great Aunt, speaks it all the time.
Ya feel me Lmao.
I surely do…..love mine more, but if I can forgo the cleaning, seasoning and frying….here I come.
I only fart at home, or in the ladies room. I am a LAYDEE!!
The wig too.
Chicken Chicken Chicken
THEY FINALLY FIRED BRIAN ENCINIA…DID WE TALK ABOUT THAT ALREADY??
Simple! technique we use everyday 24/7—READING & TALKING. There are a million of books, films, photographs and documentaries on slavery….Museums and millions of stories handed down through the generations and just so you know slavery did NOT end completely after the civil war and the degradation of black images (maids, blackface etc) in film, photographs and minstrel shows went on through the 1940’s.
Heard that this morning…..waiting to see if they are going to make a full example out of him.
WING WING WING
HERRO
lol
You named places we don’t have here. Lol. We have ONE Red Robin, but it’s far from me. And I don’t like RR. No Sonic, unless you’re in Anaheim. My sheets and hood are in the cleaners, so I had to skip the Klan rally of last week. That, and I’m not white. Praise the Lord.
Where you been all day?
“it reminds them of the good ol days when black ppl were their slaves.” She is asking who is being reminded, as there aren’t many (or any) people alive to reminisce on when Ole Curtis washed their feet and Esther nursed them.
Hey Wang Wang Hero DOES DANCE
I got mine at the cafeteria at work.
Happy to see him just getting gigs. Good for him.
What whaz it!!! (for all my iamzoie followers)
Then she tried to back away after she already cashed the check and the backlash started rolling in. Went on the radio and compared it to soft porn I was like bye Mary
You in southern Orange county?
Going to Fox and Hound tomorrow
MY BAD! WE DON’T HAVE MANY IF THAT COUNTS!
I remember when I used to work at a firm in the Water Gardens in Santa Monica. I would walk to the cafeteria at the MTV building a block over. EMI also had offices there. They had a nice little set up. I didn’t typically take lunches when I was on assignments, but I loved that MTV cafeteria.
Correct.
No, ma’am. I am in the Westernmost hemisphere of L.A.
I don’t venture the OC. I stay in a bubble of about a 5 to MAYBE 10 mi radius, unless I have to trek to the valley for some strange reason.
They gonna go name their chicken Brigadier General Chicken, just to outrank us.
But…Colonel Sanders was white…
Who told ole fake deep Omar Slimm to get a log in?
I WON A FREE PARTY AT ONE HERE…EXPIRES SUNDAY BUT THEY EXTENDED IT FOR ME! I’M HAPPY. AND I HAVE A FREE BIRTHDAY ENTREE! #HAPPYDAZE
She compared it to soft pron ?…Come on Mary
That chicken black tho
No, it’s ok. Things here are a bit different. We have a Five Guys and In-N-Out. We will have a Shake Shack soon, in West Hollywood, where the gays live and congregate. I call it “boys’ town.” We don’t have a Sonic nearby. It’s about 30 mi from me, and with our traffic, that’s too far.
Let’s make Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima white. I would like that.
Well that’s a foolish question because common sense and logic tells you if anyone was alive in the 19th century they didn’t live past the 20th century. If she’s trying to say that idea of whites wanting black ppl to return to being enslaved died during the civil war then we don’t need to continue this conversation.
Who?
We going for a birthday too?
What grocery stores do yall have? They do sell potato bread at the grocery store.
Bwahahahaha
Lmao! I do love me a 5 dollar fill up….
I know Katt, Chris (Rock or Tucker) or Kev betta not fix they mouth too
Slim Goody is in here?
Yep…40 acres and a wing….
fake working :crying1:
I never said they don’t sell potato bread here. I recall saying I don’t recall having eaten it. I have groceries delivered sometimes, and I’m sure they sell potato bread because they’ve offered it to me. However, I like pretzel bread. And Alfaro’s Artesan bread. Alfaro’s is my favorite.
Same here. Trying to stretch this day into 9 hrs and there isn’t enough material. I wanna go home.
I like wings. How did you know? ??????
I really do. Any chicken shack that sells a wing lover’s special is alright with me.
Ok. I’m not a fan of potato bread. I guess I’m too used to the taste of white and wheat.
He also wasn’t really a colonel.
Why?
I don’t like white bread. I am not usually much of a bread eater, but Alfaro’s is the best. So soft and delicious. Toasts beautifully, too.
Good, cause that mule they was gonna give us was maim one leg and blind in one eye and could only go left.
Look here Slimm. You either wording your questions stupid or don’t know your ownself. That question you posed, reads just like that. There is nobody alive who first hand can recall slavery. First hand. First hand.
They probably do want us to go back to slavery. You go first cause me personally ain’t going without a fight. Now good day to ya.
Oh PS if you think white folks read all of that about slaves then you stoopid Cole. They of all folks, really don’t recall chit about slavery was my damn point. (There are a million of books, films, photographs and documentaries on slavery….)
IN OTHER WORDS – A 2 HOUR DRIVE FOR SONIC. NO BUENO!!
@88
Well…neither of those companies are Black owned….and the images are so stereotypical. I guess Uncle Ben is okay, but Aunt Jemima….just no.
You really read my mind! That’s how long it takes to get to Disneyland. I’m not here for it.
Yeah, Uncle Ben I can take, Aunt Jemima and that scarf, it due for an update.
*hot tears*
The male spawn of -0.00025%
Like you think they read that? Real talk? You think they took time out to educate they self on SLAVERY. To remind theirself? (There are a million of books, films, photographs and documentaries on slavery….) They aint do chit!
Come onnnn (Biz Markie voice)
It ain’t even that they don’t recall….they not going to read what they want to remove from history!!
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I thought her ass got one? She got a hair do.
Let us try this one more time….
You fonted: “it reminds them of the good ol days when black ppl were their slaves.”
To which it was replied: Who here on this earth, was present during slavery? (which is a logical question to your comment)
How in the Sam Hell did you get that anyone was saying that white people wouldn’t embrace the idea of slavery?
The point is, how can they be reminded of a time that they did not live in, only heard about second-hand and came to their own conclusions of what is was like. Dead people (as we all know those people are long gone) can’t be reminded of days long ago, they are dead.
You slammed drawers?
Chile
Thanks! I’m going to the CD store Today
She only agreed to lick the tip, not put the whole thing in her mouth. LOL
Would think this would be seen as insulting by some black folk and an absolute marketing nightmare for YUM corp. Hard to believe this is legit.
Ahhh… I miss Martin.
LOL! Ohhhkay.
But y’all was mad @ Mary for singing abt chicken wraps ?
But y’all was mad @ Mary for singing abt chicken wraps ?
Do you recall the civil rights era?
Do you recall the civil rights era?
They need to pay those people. Let me go. ?
They need to pay those people. Let me go. ?
???
???
Lol… Just had a visual… Plus it hiccups aggressively which causes it to plummet forward..
Lol… Just had a visual… Plus it hiccups aggressively which causes it to plummet forward..
Pay those people.
Pay those people.
ole sambo looking ass nicca
ole sambo looking ass nicca
Photoshopped?
Photoshopped?
No, because I was not there, so therefore I cannot be reminded of that time, I can only guess by the stories that I am told.
No, because I was not there, so therefore I cannot be reminded of that time, I can only guess by the stories that I am told.
Bloop
Bloop
Bwahaha I was about to post the exact same gif ?????
Bwahaha I was about to post the exact same gif ?????
I find that hard to believe but if that’s true and you can’t think of (something) because of a resemblance or likeness then you are ignorant (lacking knowledge and awareness in general), you should have learned about the civil rights era from the various history classes one takes in school, the various documentaries, books and programs on Dr. King and many others of that era that air yearly on television and that is very disappointing to hear that your parents and grandparents who would have been alive during that time never educated you on this critical time in Black History.
I find that hard to believe but if that’s true and you can’t think of (something) because of a resemblance or likeness then you are ignorant (lacking knowledge and awareness in general), you should have learned about the civil rights era from the various history classes one takes in school, the various documentaries, books and programs on Dr. King and many others of that era that air yearly on television and that is very disappointing to hear that your parents and grandparents who would have been alive during that time never educated you on this critical time in Black History.
The lady in the Popeyes commercial has an accent? ? I swear I never noticed. ?
The lady in the Popeyes commercial has an accent? ? I swear I never noticed. ?
I still would not be reminded of those times, as I WAS NOT THERE to experience it. Now my grandparents, etc. can be reminded of those times, as they WERE THERE to experience it. Do you see how that works? And trying to attack someone’s intelligence is the oldest and, might I add, the lamest trick in the book. Try another mode of attack and while you are at it, learn how to properly place your words in a way that you sound as intelligent as you would like to be. Have a blessed one!!
I still would not be reminded of those times, as I WAS NOT THERE to experience it. Now my grandparents, etc. can be reminded of those times, as they WERE THERE to experience it. Do you see how that works? And trying to attack someone’s intelligence is the oldest and, might I add, the lamest trick in the book. Try another mode of attack and while you are at it, learn how to properly place your words in a way that you sound as intelligent as you would like to be. Have a blessed one!!
Butt EYE wasn’t..
I think I’m more fake upset about this up top.
Butt EYE wasn’t..
I think I’m more fake upset about this up top.
throws hands in the air and walks awayy…F.O. H
throws hands in the air and walks awayy…F.O. H
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-pRv0j7B38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-pRv0j7B38
Lol..sure ain’t!
Lol..sure ain’t!
Listen to the octopi.
Listen to the octopi.
Am not upset at neither… Gotta make them coins & ain’t nobody getting hurt
Am not upset at neither… Gotta make them coins & ain’t nobody getting hurt
That was sad and painful to watch. I am glad they pulled it. Poor Mary.
That was sad and painful to watch. I am glad they pulled it. Poor Mary.
That’s Flo at Progressive giving up hers, will never happen.
That’s Flo at Progressive giving up hers, will never happen.
Popeyes is not black owned.
Popeyes is not black owned.
Noooooo :crying1:
I just bang the phone down every now and then LOL
Noooooo :crying1:
I just bang the phone down every now and then LOL
smh.
smh.
Naw this is it.
Jim Gaffigan did it best. I love him he’s ALWAYS talks about food. Hotpocket.
I’m going to scroll past this!
i never hate on another black man or woman’s hustle, especially if its a multimillionaire $$$ deal. As long as he ain’t selling beer or drugs to children. The colonel probably stole that recipe from some black person anyways. Its cold in these streets.
Oh no no no….this is all the ways wrong.
Oh no no no….this is all the ways wrong.
David Alan Grier.
The Kaaang of facial expressions.
That is all.
Dude is hilarious lol
We know this.
Indeed.
Just watched that show!
David is a gem, Loretta is ??.
Hope it gets renewed.
It comes back on this month. I believe the premiere is the 13th.
Hunny I had to walk off so my coworkers didn’t think I was crazy . I hollered!!!! I knew she was going to post it lmao
Who said it was?
Not Strangé?!
Liberal Media gotta love em…. Change you can believe in!
I am white but I don’t and have never looked at color because we are ALL AMERICANS…..I think Mr. Grier will make a great Col Sanders! People that don’t like this because of his color need to GROW UP and get a life as they are obviously wound too tight. I am 68 and getting fed up with all of these whiners these days that complain about EVERYTHING……We ALL need to TALK to one another and STOP the criticizing people that we know nothing about. There are people in ALL races that I don’t like…..including my own. Eat the Chicken and just LOVE it.