Mad Men’s Jon Hamm is Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Man of the Year
Actor Jon Hamm, who rose to fame as ad executive Don Draper on the AMC series “Mad Men,” was honored Friday night as the 2025 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.…
Actor Jon Hamm, who rose to fame as ad executive Don Draper on the AMC series “Mad Men,” was honored Friday night as the 2025 Man of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.
The theater group, which dates to 1844 and claims to be the world’s third-oldest still operating, said Hamm will receive his Pudding Pot award at a celebratory roast. Afterward, he will attend a performance of Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 176th production, “101 Damnations.”
“I can’t believe there are so many people here,” Hamm said after accepting his Pudding Pot award. “Did you all seriously think I was dead? This is such a wonderful honor.”
Before accepting the Pudding Pot, Hamm endured a roasting at the hands of two members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. They mocked his height, poked fun at the fact he had not won an Academy Award and suggested many previous winners were better looking.
To make their point, they even had him take part in a contest with someone wearing a Paul Rudd mask, the 2018 winner of the award. Hamm also participated in a trivia contest with an piece of deli meat on a table — who the presenters suggested had won an Academy Award for production design.
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Hasty Pudding’s 2025 Man of the Year Award recipient Jon Hamm joins his friend “Paul Rudd” on stage for the celebratory roast. (Libby O’Neill/ Boston Herald)