It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

David is popular in advertising particularly in United States Navy recruitment commercials. He also portrayed the voice of Sgt. Less than two years later he went on to star as Childs opposite Kurt Russell in John Carpenter's The Thing and his lengthy on-screen career had begun.

Navy commercials and as the person picked to replace the late Paul Winfield as the narrator of the City Confidential documentary television crime series. He is perhaps most known for his live-action roles in such films as Crash There's Something About Mary Barbershop and Men at Work. Facilier in The Princess and the Frog the Flame King in Adventure Time and Chaos in Dissidia Final Fantasy and Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy.