Whoopi Wants an AmEx Ad

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If Whoopi Goldberg has her way, she’ll be appearing in the next American Express commercial. And why not? She claims to carry every one of the client’s credit cards, including the exclusive Black AmEx, which she says “is only for black people.”

Goldberg made her case Feb. 23 at the AmEx Blue for Save the Music event. She was the emcee for Blue’s sponsorship of the Grammys viewing party at Madison Square Garden’s Paramount Theater, where 3,000 people watched the awards show on giant screens.

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