Just When I Think I Can't Love Jon Hamm Any More

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Jon Hamm on 30 Rock...Thank You Jesus

Jon Hamm, star of my favorite show, Mad Men, is starring on my second favorite show, 30 Rock, for three episodes as Liz Lemon's (Tina Fey) love interest. The first Jon Hamm-tastic episode starts Feb. 5th. He's the bees' knees. God, I cannot wait until the new season of Mad Men. I have serious Mad Men withdrawal. I recently got my mom addicted to the show, and she can't stop watching the season 1 DVD. It's a sickness, I tell ya!

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The offbeat, but very funny comedian, Zach Galifianakis, interviews Mad Men star, Jon Hamm, and it's pretty ridiculous, not to mention hilarious.

There"s nobody that more consistently produces web video greatness than Zach Galifianakis (except maybe for this hamster). The previous episodes of his Funny or Die talk show Between Two Ferns were fantastic, and this new one with guest Jon Hamm may be the best yet.

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Dick Whitman or the Guy from Simply Red?

This month's GQ has a really bad photo shoot with one of my all-time favorite leading men: Jon Hamm aka Don Draper on AMC's Mad Men. I sent one of my best girlfriend's, Jaime, two of the pictures from the layout, and as I had suspected, she didn't care for the pictures, either.

This was our e-mail:

Me: What's up with the placement of the hat?!

Jaime: What is up with My Friend Flicka in the background? You can totally tell this whole shoot was conceived by a heterosexual man who is sooo jealous of D-Drapes that he wanted to completely emasculate him and turn him into Huck Finn or by a homosexual male who thinks that what he is wearing is fetching in a hip incorrigible hobo sort of way and that all women love horses so yeah, let's throw a horse in the background and they'll go wild.

The last man a woman would want in her house is an unemployed dude with a horse. Does not matter how hot he is. Seriously, I'd take employed man with pot-bellied pig over homeless with horse any day.

I feel like Paul Rudd fills his inbox with this picture and alternate titles for it of varying levels of ridicule all day.

Me: I'm trying not to burst out laughing right now because nobody around me is going to think this is funny. I hope to God, Paul Rudd tools on him mercilessly because this is one of the worst photo shoots I've ever seen. You take one of the most ridiculously handsome men and turn him into a stable boy?!

Yeah, I think the photographer was going for the whole Dick Whitman motif, but failed miserably because even Dick Whitman wouldn't be caught dead wearing a ridiculous hat like this. And look at the way it's placed on his head! It's so 80s new wave band, I can't stand it. I feel as if he's going to break out singing "Come on Eileen" at any moment. Not sexy.

Umm, how about just throw the guy in a suit? He looks fantastic in a suit. Jon Hamm is the type of guy who was made to wear a suit. Instead, they put him in a porkpie hat, throw him in a field, and tell him to channel Tom Sawyer or Huck Finn. He's a grown man! Throw Emile Hirsch in a corn field or James McAvoy, but not Jon Hamm!

Then, I sent her the 2nd picture.

Jaime: Okay, this confirms that it is actually a hetero man who set this up...stalk of wheat in the mouth?!!!! As evidence I will hearken back to every July or August cover of Playboy in the 1980s. Due to a poignant and predictable lack of imagination on the part of hetero male America, summer issues would always feature "Southern Belles" or "Texas Debs" and would inevitably portray these women in Daisy Dukes sprawled out over classic cars or taking a much deserved nude nap in a pile of hay. But the perennial accoutrement, the piece de resistance, was always stalk of wheat or straw or hay or whatever that sh*t is in the mouth.

Seriously, who in Viking hell would think chewing on straw is sexy. Goat-f##kers, that's who. Plus it's also so cliché. Let's do a "country-bumpkin" photo shoot and let's make him pose with some straw in his mouth to really tie the ribbon up on that package. I'm sure the next issue of this magazine features Amy Adams dressed up like 40s screen siren or Jim Carey as a sad clown because no one's ever thought to shoot them that way except for everyone who has ever taken a picture of them.

If I were Jennifer Westfeldt I would f'ing sue the photographer on this shoot for defacing private property.

Don Draper's Guide to Picking Up Women

Best sketch from SNL last night. Jon Hamm was the best host of the season. He was amazing. It didn't phone it in like a lot of actors and actresses. He made an effort, and it showed. Also, who would've known he did such great impressions!

It's a Mad Men Weekend!

This is an action-packed Mad Men weekend with Jon Hamm hosting SNL tonight and the season 2 finale tomorrow night. So, I figured I would make this an all Mad Men Colette's Love Bytes weekend!

- Tonight, Jon Hamm is hosting SNL. I'm super excited to see him because I think he's a fantastic actor, and unbeknownst to many, he has a terrific sense of humor. Just check out the August 2008 Interview magazine's interview with Jon, conducted by his good friend, Paul Rudd. Absolutely hilarious.

- NY Mag did a Don Draper likeability index using a period appropriate scale (likeable is JFK as unlikeable is to Nixon), starting from season 1 up until the last episode of season 2. Good stuff!

- And because NY Mag seems to be as obsessed with Mad Men as me, Emily Nussbaum wrote a great article on how Joan's rape ultimately changed the tone of Mad Men's nostalgic first season and how the women were portrayed. Joan started out as a strong, sexual character, but with her rape, she becomes a vulnerable and rather tragic person. Interesting take on it, and it's definitely worth a read.

- Alan Sepinwall, brilliant TV columnist for the NJ Star-Ledger,(his Mad Men recaps rock my world), interviewed Mad Men creator, Matthew Weiner about the season 2 finale. Don't worry he doesn't give away anything!

- The Simpsons annual Treehouse of Horror episode premieres on November 2nd, and it features a Mad Men-esque opening credits montage showing Homer falling through the sky, passing by skyscrapers covered in billboards and advertising imagery. The segment is cleverly titled "How to Get Ahead in Dead-vertising". This is why The Simpsons is so brilliant because it never stops satiring current pop culture.


- Ever wonder where the Mad Men locations are supposed to be in NYC? Well, thanks to Gridskipper, you'll find out where Rachel and Don met for their first client meeting, where Pete and Trudy's 2 bedroom apartment is located, and where Don and Roger have their booze and oyster-filled lunch. This is the ultimate Mad Men guide to New York.

- On the AMCTV Mad Men blog, each week Matthew Weiner does a short video called "Inside Mad Men", where he describes his analysis of the episode, each focusing on a specific theme. This is the one he did for last week's episode "The Mountain King":