Fred Armisen serves up some tasty licks in new KFC jingles
By giving Vincent “Pete Campbell” Kartheiser the KFC account earlier this year, Yum! Brands began the process of revamping its fast-chicken operation to appeal to all the cool chicks out there in radio-and-two-piece-meal land. Kartheiser now embodies the “heartthrob Nashville Hot Colonel,” who differs from the Norm Macdonald/Darrell Hammond/Rob Riggle/George Hamilton culinary commanders by being younger and more blue-eyed. But he’s also been relegated to a non-speaking role, appearing on album covers in commercials where a bespectacled father and daughter argue over her newfound love of the hottest of KFC’s 11 herbs and spices.