Darrell Hammond

Darrell Clayton Hammond (conceived October 8, 1955) is an American performer, stand-up comic and impressionist. He was a normal cast part on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2009.

Upon his flight, Hammond, at age 53, was the most established thrown part in the show's history. Hammond showed up than some other cast part and mimicked in excess of 107 superstars, with Bill Clinton as his most regular impression.

Hammond held the record for most pantomimes by a SNL cast part with 107, until the point that he was outperformed by Kenan Thompson on May 3, 2014. As of December 10, 2011, he had showed up on the show eight times since leaving the cast.[needs update]

On September 19, 2014, Hammond was reported as the new commentator of SNL, supplanting Don Pardo, who had passed on the month before.In May 2015, he started depicting Colonel Sanders in TV ads for Kentucky Fried Chicken, in spite of the fact that he was supplanted by Norm Macdonald, additionally a previous SNL cast part, only three months after the fact.

In the late 1980s, Hammond worked quickly as a high quality comic on Premier Cruise Line ships.

One night, while the ship was docked in the Bahamas, Hammond went by an eatery, where he devoured what might as well be called 16 shots of rum.He asserted that a man more than once bothered him all through the night to take a dollar charge with follow measures of cocaine on it.When the entertainer left the bar to utilize the restroom, the man tailed him into the slow down and let him know, "I figure you should take this with you."Believing he was going to be robbed, he yielded, and the man set the bill inside Hammond's pocket.Local police were holding up outside the restroom and immediately captured him. The United States Drug Enforcement Administration later revealed to Hammond that the scene had been a setup, and that neighborhood experts frequently ensnared American tourists;he spent an end of the week in an unrefined correctional facility cell. Hammond was discharged after his dad flew out to the Bahamas and paid $3,000 for his child's discharge.

Hammond first openly specified the occurrence while going about as a visitor on a 1997 scene of the radio show Loveline;the story was again said when he came back to Loveline in 2000 and 2004, and in addition amid an appearance on the Opie and Anthony appear in 2012.Tina Fey and Tim Meadows, two companions and colleagues of Hammond's, said in 2004 they had not beforehand heard the story.