Actor Jon Hamm, who rose to fame as advert government Don Draper on the AMC sequence “Mad Men,” was honored Friday evening because the 2025 Man of the Yr by Harvard College’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
The theater group, which dates to 1844 and claims to be the world’s third-oldest nonetheless working, mentioned Hamm will obtain his Pudding Pot award at a celebratory roast. Afterward, he’ll attend a efficiency of Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 176th manufacturing, “101 Damnations.”
“I can’t believe there are so many people here,” Hamm mentioned after accepting his Pudding Pot award. “Did you all seriously think I was dead? This is such a wonderful honor.”
Earlier than accepting the Pudding Pot, Hamm endured a roasting by the hands of two members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. They mocked his peak, poked enjoyable on the truth he had not gained an Academy Award and instructed many earlier winners have been higher trying.
To make their level, they even had him participate in a contest with somebody carrying a Paul Rudd masks, the 2018 winner of the award. Hamm additionally participated in a trivia contest with an piece of deli meat on a desk — who the presenters instructed had gained an Academy Award for manufacturing design.
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Hasty Pudding’s 2025 Man of the Yr Award recipient Jon Hamm joins his buddy “Paul Rudd” on stage for the celebratory roast. (Libby O’Neill/ Boston Herald)
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