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Colonel [a] Harland David Sanders (September 9, 1890 – December 16, 1980) was an American businessman and founder of fast food chicken restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (also known as KFC).
"Chickens for Colonel Sanders", or "Chickens for KFC", is a political rhetorical analogy which compares the irony of someone supporting a politician, organization, or ideology which contradicts their own beliefs or rights to the idea of chickens supporting American restaurateur Colonel Sanders or his chicken fast food restaurant Kentucky Fried Chicken.
Quaid voiced the character Colonel Sanders in radio and television commercials for fast-food restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken. Quaid's voice-over work also included Capitol One Credit Card, US Air, Miller Beer and a guest role in The Ren & Stimpy Show (as Anthony's father in the second-season episode, "A Visit to Anthony").
The real Colonel -- Harland David Sanders -- was born on a farm on September 9, 1890 in Henryville, Indiana. He worked a variety of odd jobs as a conductor, a blacksmith, a salesman and a boat ...
A Santa-dressed Colonel Sanders statue outside a Tokyo KFC in December 2020. Yuichi Yamazaki—Getty Images. ... which visitnorway.com says helped to show the world that he’s “a funny, ...
In August 2015, he succeeded Darrell Hammond as Colonel Sanders in TV commercials for the KFC chain of fast food restaurants. [82] [83] Macdonald was replaced by Jim Gaffigan in the role by February 2016. [84] In September 2016, Macdonald's semi-fictional memoir Based on a True Story was published by Random House imprint Spiegel & Grau. [85]
KFC is doubling down on Colonel Sanders, for the first time casting a black man to play the chicken chain's founder. Comedian David Alan Grier announced on Twitter that he has been cast as the ...
In January 2017, Billy Zane began appearing as a Gold Colonel Sanders to promote a new Georgia Gold flavor chicken. [18] In April 2017, KFC released a campaign featuring Rob Lowe as astronaut Colonel Sanders giving a JFK speech spoof/homage about launching the Zinger chicken sandwich into space. [19] This commercial also featured Wink Martindale.