It Is Nice That Jon Hamm Is Having Fun Out There

The thing I appreciate about Jon Hamm is that he seems to enjoy being famous. I suspect it has a lot to do with getting famous later in life, when he was already fully an adult. He seems to really appreciate the benefits of it all in a pretty pure way. Like, some people will get famous and become monsters, insulating themselves with yes-men and throwing public tantrums and shouting things like “DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?” at busboys who try to clear a mostly empty basket of complimentary bread to make room for the entree the chef made special for them even though it was not and had never been on the menu.

Maybe Jon Hamm does that sometimes, too. I don’t know him personally, so I don’t want to project too much here. It doesn’t seem likely, though. Ever since Mad Men ended, he’s been running around with an expression on his face that scans as "Wait, are they really letting me do this?" It's kind of charming. I mean, voicing a toilet on Bob’s Burgers? Sure. Showing up in a Top Gun movie to bark at Tom Cruise? Of course. Becoming basically a cast member of SNL at this point, with yearly hosting and one-off guest appearances that don’t even always seem tied to projects he needs to promote? He might be on this weekend for all we know. 

I’ve made all these points before. I’m making them again now for two reasons:

• I really like making them 
• I wanted an excuse to post the video of Jon Hamm vibing in a bucket hat at a Bad Bunny concert in Puerto Rico last week and I figured if I wrote two paragraphs of intro I could turn it into a whole newsletter

So, here we are. 

I don’t know, man. I just love this. I love the idea of becoming a very famous Hollywood celebrity and using that power to, like, get cool tickets to the Super Bowl and hang out all week (pretty much everyone who was in New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX has an "I met Jon Hamm" story), or land small roles in cool projects made by people you admire (sometimes as a toilet), or fly to Puerto Rico to go see a concert by your friend, international megastar Bad Bunny, as part of the really cool residency he's doing down there. 

Yes, for the record, Jon Hamm and Bad Bunny are friends. Because they both got famous and realized this level of fame would allow them to be silly any time they wanted on SNL. As he told the Today show earlier this year…

"You can't listen to his music and not smile," Hamm told host Savannah Guthrie. "I just love his story. He's a really nice guy. He's funny. He's an 'SNL' guy, too. They love him over there."

Good dudes supporting good dudes. Sometimes in bucket hats. We love to see it.

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— “How Peacemaker brought season 2's NSFW orgy to life”

— I am so happy for these gentlemen

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— “How Taskmaster took over television”

— man named George Herman Ruth charged with name-related sports memorabilia shenanigans 

— famous producer of music for movies does not actually like movie music

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— the trailer for Good Boy blew up so much that the movie is now getting a wider release

— yes, of course, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce got engaged, which is interesting to me mostly because it means Jason Kelce will probably get to give a speech at the reception after having a few cocktails, and lord knows that man loves giving a speech after having a few cocktails (I watched the full version of this speech – which I can't embed, what the hell? – while I was preparing this newsletter and it made me cry???) (lol) (go birds tho)

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