Jon Hamm (clip/audio)
Appearances
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
You know, it's a typical day in Hollywood. I'm in a tuxedo at 7 o'clock in the morning with a hot air balloon in the background. I just got off that hot air balloon.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
You know, when I moved into the house that I live in now, I think I sold or got rid of or donated or something, probably 15 tuxedos. And I probably still have a double digit amount of tuxedos. None of them fit.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
None of them fit. I was shocked that this one fit. This is one of mine. They said, do you have a tuxedo? The costume designer came over last night. I was like, yeah, I got it. Come on, just come over to the house and take a look and see whatever tuxedo you want to have.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
So you have to move all the equipment and everything. And everything has to move. That's why all the trucks are moving and all the... There's a hot air balloon.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
Doesn't this frame look like I'm thinking about a hot air balloon right now?
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
I first met Paul in St. Louis, Missouri. Paul... was roommates and friends with my high school girlfriend's older brother. So this family was dear friends of mine, too, and still remain. They were all at my wedding. It's a whole thing, the Clark family. So Paul came back with Preston, the older brother, for Thanksgiving or something one weekend, and he looked like Michael Hutchence.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
He had, like, long, curly hair. It was probably 1990-ish. 89 maybe. And he couldn't have looked any cooler. He had a denim jacket that he had painted or had had painted. Someone painted on the back of the cover of Duran Duran's Rio painting.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
The Donald Nagel painting, that very 80s thing. So he was operating at a much higher level than anybody we had really ever run into at that point in our lives.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
Yeah, he's two years older than me. So he was he was a freshman in college when I was a junior in high school. And yeah, that's when I first met Paul. And it was like he was funny and cool and interesting. And And, you know, a college kid.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
We definitely connected. I would say that, you know, Paul, that was when Paul and Preston were going to KU, Kansas University. And then when I ended up going to the University of Missouri... I went to visit Paul, who had by this point gone, transferred out of KU and moved to L.A. and was going to the Academy of Dramatic Arts. And he lived in North Hollywood with Preston and our friend Bo.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
And I came out for spring break to hang out with them. That's when I really became friends with them because we were hanging out in L.A. Thanks. In L.A., really just making a scene in 1991, 92. So we would go down to like the third street.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
Yeah. It was, there was a place called Yankee doodles. That was like a bar that had a pool tables. And that was where we went.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
I was still in college. Paul had just booked a big Nintendo ad. So he was just riding high. And then by the next time I came out, when I came out, when I moved out here after college in 95, he had done Clueless and he was on the way to go do Romeo and Juliet. He was on the way. to the, to the stars. So it was crazy. That's, that's, uh, I watched it all happen.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
You know, he was, he was, he was, uh, he was the first one of us that really got famous. It was very, very cool.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
What was it like? Again, they're just operating in different circles. And you're like, oh, right. Those are the people that I read about. Because you read about them back then. It was like Premier Magazine had a feature on Paul or Entertainment Weekly or something.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
Big brother, for sure. For sure. Even though he stands about a foot shorter than me. Let's be honest.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
This is literally if I was a billionaire, I would take my hot air balloon to work.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
You know, because I listened to your guys' thing with the one you guys did with Tina, which I thought was so good. And you guys had such a great rapport. I texted you guys.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
And we... I loved you and Seth and Drachi and everybody coming at it. I think the question I think you should ask Paul is at what point... I was asking this to Billy Crudup on the set the other day. Is he... What point or has it happened yet in his career or in his life? Has he lost the freaking out about being good all the time from an active standpoint. You know what I mean? I don't have that.
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Paul Rudd
I love what I do and I love doing it. And I know if I don't do a great job, I'll do it again and it'll be good on the second take or whatever. Yeah.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
The Jon Hamm Episode
Now, I know what you're thinking, that I'm only endorsing Jon Hamm because Jon Hamm is also my name. Well, you're wrong. You're dead wrong. First of all, my last name has two Ms, and second of all, my first name doesn't have an H. Feel like a dummy yet?
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Jizz in My Pants and Virgania Horsen's Pony Express
Hi, guys. Jon Hamm here. Long-time listener, first-time voice noter. Super fun reliving the first time I hosted all the insanity that happened. Amy having her baby. Special guests. Different things between dress and air. You guys were saying I was doing JFK at dress. I actually was doing Dean Martin at dress.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Jizz in My Pants and Virgania Horsen's Pony Express
I fucked up, I'll own it. Which then turned into James Mason for the Vincent Price show. I'm reminded how much fun I had on that show. doing not only the Trick or Treat sketch with Forte, but Jon Hamm's Jon Hamm, and the Vincent Price show, and working with everybody in what is, in fact, I think we can all agree, an golden era.
The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast
Jizz in My Pants and Virgania Horsen's Pony Express
So much fun. You guys, this whole thing, this whole journey with you has been incredibly fun, and I can't wait to continue the journey. I loved Ross Trent. And I was happy that I got to not be in that one so I could be in a little one, I believe, that was called The Curse, to be continued. I'd be very excited when that shows up.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
But even though it's been a while, I've still been on the show a lot. In fact, I was checking my own Wikipedia, which I often do, and I found out that since then, I've made 14 cameos. Yeah.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
You are a stud! You are a stud, Jon Hamm! Come on! I love you, bud. You're never wrong. You're never wrong.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
You must be the famous Susanna.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
I know she's still in there.
The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Real Jon Hamm is Not Who You Think, Plus What Happens When "Mean Girls" Grow Up and Get Meaner
You know about this. You're fine with this. Okay, fuck off, Jake. Fuck right off.