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Jon Hamm Replies To Fans Online

Jon Hamm goes online to answer the internet’s questions. The American actor responds to questions on Quora, Reddit and X, as well as fact-checking Wikipedia and replying to YouTube and Instagram comments.

How did they pitch SNL to Jon Hamm? What Marvel or DC character could Jon Hamm play? Was Jon Hamm’s first acting role as Winnie-the-Pooh? Watch the full episode as Jon Hamm goes undercover and answers all of these questions and more.

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Director: Kristen DeVore
Director of Photography: AJ Young
Editor: JY Chun
Talent: Jon Hamm
Producer: Sam Dennis
Line Producer: Jen Santos
Production Manager: James Pipitone
Production Coordinator: Elizabeth Hymes
Talent Booker: Ernesto Macias
Camera Operator: Jon Corum
Sound Mixer: Glo Hernandez
Production Assistant: Fernando Barajas; Shanti Cuizon-Burden
Post Production Supervisor: Jess Dunn
Post Production Coordinator: Rachel Kim
Supervising Editor: Rob Lombardi
Assistant Editor: Justin Symonds

Released on 05/21/2025

Transcript

@MurMarilynn, How does Jon Hamm look so handsome

in Mad Men yet so disgusting in Bridesmaids?

First of all, how dare you.

Second of all...

[clapperboard clacks]

What's up GQ?

I'm Jon Hamm, today I'm going undercover on the internet.

It's actually me.

[dramatic music] [keyboard clicking]

It's me!

You may not believe it but it's actually me.

[dramatic music continues] [keyboard clicking resumes]

X,

formerly known as Twitter.

[dramatic music resumes] [mousepad taps]

Meg, whose

handle is BETTYDR4PER

but the four for the A in Draper, get it?

What's the best episode of Mad Men besides the suitcase,

you can't say the suitcase or I'll kill you,

I don't know

who they're a,

asking if they're asking me

the best episode of it is the pilot.

Pretty damn good

way to start a show

and Betty Draper has a bit of a reveal in the pilot,

I think, it's pretty awesome.

Next!

Immensely powerful unused cornboy entity,

@weed_rat,

Okay, so my big question about the new season of Fargo

is why did they give Jon Hamm's character nipple rings?

What do you got against nipple rings, man?

Your handle is weed_rat.

You know, people have inner lives.

Replied!

@ashleyp923,

So who knew that Jon Hamm

taught Ellie Kemper in high school?

Thanks, NPR! Well, I knew it.

Ellie knew it.

Ellie's sister Carrie knew it, taught her too.

Ellie's parents knew it.

Public record guys.

Private high school, public record.

@barilace, Mechelle,

Why is Jon Hamm doing lemonade commercials?

'Cause Jon Hamm likes money

and lemonade.

Two things can be true.

Back to X!

@MurMarilynn, How does Jon Hamm look so handsome in Mad Men

yet so disgusting in Bridesmaids?

First of all, how dare you.

Second of all,

two things can be true.

Replied!

Reddit!

[mousepad taps]

What on earth was this subplot?

And why did they hire Jon Hamm for it?

This is from the Invincible subreddit.

I was watching, rewatching season one

and just realized there is a minor role for a guard,

Jon Hamm, that works in the White House.

I can probably understand the theme of

parenting because

of Nolan, but I thought it was gonna go somewhere.

LOL.

It didn't go anywhere.

It was just a fun little easter egg.

See,

sometimes we can just have fun with it.

Robert Kirkman called me up and said,

Would you ever consider doing this?

It might be a fun misdirect, and I said,

Yes, I would like to do that.

Next!

Jon Hamm and Adam Scott on the

subreddit television,

Jon Hamm and Adam Scott recreate Simon and Simon intro.

RapidCheckOut asks, Did they recreate it for a reason?

Or just for fun? [Simon & Simon starts playing]

What do you think?

Maybe fun is the reason.

Okay, now we're in the curb subreddit,

Jon Hamm taking notes on Susie and Cheryl

going off on Larry is one of the best moments in the show.

Again, real quick, are we talking about the Crown now?

Yeah. How good is that show?

I agree.

Did Jon Hamm improv this moment?

Yes.

It's all improved.

Posted!

Okay,

now we're in the live from New York subreddit,

one that's near and dear to my heart.

A photograph of myself, Michael Buble,

Nick glazed Ham,

Who is responsible for writing the joy

that is Hamm and Buble?

Any pun related

sketches.

Look no further than Hamm and Buble.

[audience laughs] You can thank Seth Meyers.

Michael Buble said he wanted to be

part of the show.

Careful what you wish for, buddy.

Next!

Subreddit Mad Men,

Jon Hamm was good, a little too good actually,

at playing narcissistic crazy men, why is that?

We all have skills.

I have a specific set of skills.

It's like Liam Neeson.

Posted!

Subreddit Jon Hamm, Job Hamm secret Instagram,

has anyone found it?

Job Hamm J-O-B?

Spell my name right if you're gonna ask a favor.

Okay, YouTube. Oh, this will always be good.

I can only imagine them pitching this to Jon Hamm,

I can imagine them doing it too because they did.

Andy Sandberg and

Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone were in their office

and they had showed me a clip

from The Lost Boys of Tim playing saxophone shirtless

and they said, What if this guy,

but also he was like the Kool-Aid man

and he just broke through walls?

And I was like, That's really funny,

you'll never make that,

cut to three days later I was

breaking through walls shirtless with a long ponytail

playing the saxophone.

It's a good pitch.

Replied!

Now onto Quora.

It starts with QU, so I'm assuming it's questions.

What Marvel or DC character could Jon Hamm play?

I could play all of them honestly.

We're in a

time where casting is wide open.

Why not me for everybody?

And you know,

ai,

I could be

a Skrull, is that a thing?

Yeah, anything.

Posted.

More Quora.

What does Jon Hamm think is the goat

of St. Louis sports?

Greatest of all time St. Louis sports?

Hard to say but I'm guessing

Stan Musial?

Classic Cardinal.

Whole career as a Cardinal.

Amazing.

Brett Hall, another example from the

St. Louis Blues.

Kelly Chase, great community guy.

Jim Hart,

classic. St. Louis Football Cardinal quarterback.

Ozzy Smith.

Come on, the list is,

goes on and on, Lou Brock.

Worst situation in St. Louis sports?

He didn't play for the St. Louis Cardinals,

and may he rest in peace,

but Don Denkinger who called and played at first base

in the 1985 World Series incorrectly.

Still a little bit hung up on that.

That's okay.

Replied!

Even

more Quora.

How many cigarettes does Jon Hamm smoke

on an average Mad Men shoot?

Well, they're fake cigarettes, thank goodness,

but they were,

they weren't like CGI'd or anything,

so that was actually really people

inhaling smoke and carcinogens even though it wasn't

tar or nicotine,

fortunately

Somebody did a

thing, a deep dive in the pilot of Mad Men

and said that I smoked something like 174 cigarettes in that

pilot.

We did 92 episodes, so

do the math.

A lot

is the answer.

Yeah, don't smoke kids.

Okay,

Wikipedia.

His first acting role was as Winnie-the-Pooh

in first grade, that is correct.

I

was chosen

out of my entire first grade class because

I was the loudest.

He continued working as a waiter,

sometime after first grade,

And briefly worked as a set designer

for a softcore pornography movie.

Not a set designer,

set decorator.

Wildly different things.

There's a hyperlink there,

so I'm assuming if you click on that,

it'll take you to

set designer.

Ask anybody.

Art department, still.

It wasn't a hard job at all,

paid a hundred dollars a day and it was soul-crushing.

Next!

Hamm says that he used memories of his father

to portray Draper,

a well-dressed, influential man of business and society

hiding great inner turmoil.

Sure,

my dad had a lot of suits.

Instagram!

It'd be a good time for me to tell you I,

I pitched a new app

where people can get graham crackers delivered

to their homes,

it's called Instantgram.

30rock, Liz Lemon really knows how to pick 'em.

Is Jon Hamm still in the bubble?

No,

never was

Character, that was Dr. Drew.

Feel dumb now?

'Cause you should.

Okay,

that's it,

I'm signing off of the internet forever.

Starring: Jon Hamm

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