Jon Hamm Says He Owes His Career to SNL Creator Lorne Michaels: Ill Be Forever Grateful to Him

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Jon Hamm Says He Owes His Career to SNL Creator Lorne Michaels: Ill Be Forever Grateful to Him

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Jon Hamm says he will be "forever grateful" to Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels for his prolific career. Speaking with reporters following his crowning as the 2025 Hasty Pudding Man of the Year at Harvard in Cambridge, Mass., on Friday, Jan. 31, the 53-year-old actor shared that Michaels, 80, gave him a chance to showcase that his talents extend beyond dramatic roles. Jon Hamm Graciously Gets Roasted While Accepting Harvard's Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Award Hamm went on to explain that amid the success of Mad Men — in which he portrayed Don Draper, the enigmatic creative director of a fictional New York City advertising agency in the 1960s — he "was offered a lot of roles that were a version of that character where you had been smoking a cigarette and sort of brooding, looking out a window into the dark city of some kind of place.
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