Duke Phillips

u Duke Phillips is the boss of Jay Sherman, the titular character of the ABC to FOX animated series The Critic. He runs Phillips Broadcasting (which he had developed from his previous business "Duke Phillips' Chicken and Waffles") that airs Jay Sherman's show Coming Attractions. He is voiced by Charles Napier and is a parody of Ted Turner.

Personality
As the head of Phillips Broadcasting, Duke shows many traits typically associated with business villains such as a willingness to retool anything (often Jay's show) for profit, being corrupt, and acting like an evil overlord. He is shown to have incredible strength and physical physique, such as walking right through two walls and using Jay like a medicine ball during an exercise routine. He also bullies his employees, notably Jay whom he frequently antagonizes for allegedly being gay and into him (Jay isn't and Duke later reveals that he does it just to bully him) which didn't stop even when Jay started dating his second season girlfriend Alice Tompkins.

Although Duke has shown a human side as well. He once built a preschool to accomodate Alice's daughter after she had been rejected from several prestigous schools (noted as having been "built on a dare"). He also built a hospital/medical research center, although it was accompanied by a large statue of an Atlas-esque Duke repeating the phrase "All Hail Duke! Duke is Life!" He also was shown as being a bit ill-informed about the average person, once believing that the Average Joe made three hundred grand a year.

Villainous Acts
That said, he has hinted that he is not above criminal activities for the sake of profits. Once during a trial, in a parody of A Few Good Men, Duke accidently revealed that he had sold mustard gas to Gadhaffi (then retracting it as being that "mustard gives him gass"). He also once revealed to Jay that he owns a baseball team he bets against and is a citizen of the Dutch Antilles to avoid paying taxes.

In "All the Duke's Men", Duke is inspired to run for President and has a brief daydream where he's encouraged by a devilish version of himself to run and "drop a mess of bombs" while in his office. His methods of gaining support during the campaign are underhanded and crude, such as using his "evil eye" to silence a reporter questioning his phony marriage to TV mom June Lockhart (who then referred to Duke as "evil one" and asking how he may serve him) and having campaign posters featuring unmotivated Irish bashing (him kicking a leprechaun while proclaiming they suck). Towards the end of the episode, he finally declares his true intentions over national television.

"First, I’ll tell you what I’m really gonna do as President. I’ll run this country like I run my company. I’m gonna raid the pension fund, dump chemicals in the ocean, and sell our best assets to the Japanese! Half of you states are in the toilet, and you’re not coming out! New York, you know what I’m talking about! California, kiss your smoggy butt goodbye! New England, you’re going back to Old England!"

As expected, this causes him to lose the Presidency and ends his phony marriage to Lockhart who then proceeds to sic a vicious Lassie on him.

At the series finale "Dukerella", Duke falls in love with Alice's sister Miranda. The episode does have a running gag referencing the time he kept Jay locked up in a dungeon for wanting a dental plan (long enough for Jay to have grown a thick beard). When approached once in the episode, he projected his face in a Wizard of Oz parody and menacingly asked if Jay was going to ask about the dental plan once again. At the end of the episode, Duke tells Jay that he'll grant any request in exchange for getting him and Miranda together. Jay requests that dental plan. Predictably, Duke rejects it and has Jay locked in the dungeon once more.