--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: KFC: “The State of Kentucky Fried Chicken Address” image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf80a50f1a988cbe7/6998cd3be1ba008edc98e4bd/time-hi-res.webp?branch=production&width=640&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 17, 2015 # KFC: “The State of Kentucky Fried Chicken Address” by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  The actual Colonel Sanders passed away in 1980, and _Saturday Night Live_ alum Darrell Hammond made his debut impersonating KFC’s iconic chicken purveyor this year. But Hammond’s ads[ were controversial](http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/norm-macdonald-takes-kfc-colonel-sanders-article-1.2329354 "undefined"), with some worried that he was mocking Sanders. KFC says Hammond wasn’t fired, but swapped him out for fellow _SNL_ alum Norm Macdonald within the year. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2015/4116121/kfc-the-state-of-kentucky-fried-chicken-address/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2015/4116121/kfc-the-state-of-kentucky-fried-chicken-address/"},"headline":"KFC: “The State of Kentucky Fried Chicken Address”","datePublished":"2015-11-17T16:31:48.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:10:33.579Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2015/4116121/kfc-the-state-of-kentucky-fried-chicken-address/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf80a50f1a988cbe7/6998cd3be1ba008edc98e4bd/time-hi-res.webp?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf80a50f1a988cbe7/6998cd3be1ba008edc98e4bd/time-hi-res.webp?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2015/4116121/kfc-the-state-of-kentucky-fried-chicken-address/","name":"KFC: “The State of Kentucky Fried Chicken Address”"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The State of Kentucky Fried Chicken Address","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/KtHylwgA/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-11-17T16:19:08.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/KtHylwgA.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2015/4116121/kfc-the-state-of-kentucky-fried-chicken-address/","duration":"PT55S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/top-10-everything-of-2015/4116121/kfc-the-state-of-kentucky-fried-chicken-address/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```