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Today in Hamm

2010 July 21
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by TopIdol

Idol Quickies? Who needs them. We’re only 4 days away from the Season 4 premiere of Mad Men. It’s been a veritable Hammutopia!

Watch Jon Hamm be hilariously charming and self-depreciating on Jimmy Kimmel. (AND there is a clip from Sunday’s premiere!) How many other men can make a winning joke referencing Calvin fraking Coolidge? THERE IS NOTHING THIS MAN CANNOT DO.

Jon Hamm will also be on an upcoming episode of The Simpsons. But in all actuality, I’ve come up with the perfect vehicle for Hamm. He needs to do something with Isaiah Mustafa (aka Old Spice Guy). I’m not really sure what, as I’m not sure they really need to do anything. I would watch a live stream of them painting a fence. I would watch it just as raptly as I did Inception. (Side note: Inception is fraking sick. If you see another movie before you see Inception, you suck at life.)

The only way to fight Glam is with Hamm, bitches. I sat through the ridiculous The Day The Earth Stood Still remake because Jon Hamm was in it. It’s not like I paid-paid for it. It was on HBO. Don’t watch it. He dies. HE DIES SAVING THAT RAT BASTARD CHILD JADEN SMITH. Every copy of that movie should be burned. I would rather watch Gigli than see Jon Hamm die for that RAT BASTARD CHILD JADEN SMITH. Jesus christ, this is the man whose voice makes me not curse out Comcast when I’m on the phone with them, because I tell myself I must be nice while thinking about that voice soothing me into Xfinity submission.

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  • jukejoint

    Popeater posted a cute summary of the first three seasons in case anybody needs one before TONIGHT.

    http://www.popeater.com/2010/07/25/mad-men-season-four-premiere/

    TONIGHT. Oh, my. TONIGHT. I have to go lie down on my fainting couch now.

    • deez

      That pretty much summed it up. lol!

  • FreeDavidCook

    Less than 8 hours now! Excited!

  • deez

    T O D A Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!

    I can’t wait! I also can’t wait for the sure-to-be-awesome recap!!!!!!! (are we allowed to squee and thud?)

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      You can do both, but you can’t call it squeeing and thudding. We’re better than that! Come on! ;)

  • JaneRochester

    Am I the only one watching SNL????????

    • deez

      Should we be? (Is it HAMM???)

      • deez

        Yes! I actually managed to catch the end!

    • jukejoint

      I’m watching Austin City Limits. It’s Emmy Lou, Shawn Colvin and Patty Griffin. A really good one.

  • wino

    Is anyone else preparing a special dinner + fancy drinks for tomorrow’s premier? ………just me? ohkay im a dork. i am a bit miffed US Weekly gave it 2.5 stars, but then again, it is US Weekly, where the staff has a cumulative IQ of 25. Ahhh, cant wait …True Blood and Mad Men all on the same night. Good times.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      US Weekly has no right reviewing anything. It’s a celebrity rag.

    • JaneRochester

      Dinner, schminner. I’m heading straight for the fancy drinks. Only since it’s Mad Men, they’re simple drinks. Gin. Vermouth. Olive. Greatest glass ever designed. Ahhhhhhhh.

      • deez

        Great idea. Mine will have to be Vodka, though.

        • FreeDavidCook

          Pretend drinks. I cannot handle booze with the drugs I take. So I’ll be having a virgin something or other in a fancy bar glass…considering wearing one of my swanky evening gowns or cocktail dresses while I watch.

          • deez

            We need tiaras. And sashes that read “Miss Mad Men Pennsylvania 2010″!

  • deez

    T O M O R R O W ….a matter of mere hours now people :) .

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      T-minus 25 hours!!!

  • saskin

    I wanted to thank TI and everyone else for introducing me to this amazing series. I’m still watching the 1st season but I’ve fallen in love with it.

    • JaneRochester

      Have you seen “The Wheel” yet? That was my fave ep until “Shut the Door, Have a Seat.”

  • Verbally Dyslexic

    I don’t know why it took me so long to check out Isaiah Mustafa and his Old Spice commercials and videos, but holy hell, I’m rolling around laughing at the awesomeness of it all! And yes, I would like to voice my support for some joint project featuring Jon Hamm/Don Draper and Isaiah Mustafa/Old Spice Guy in any possible combo.

    SWAN DIVE!

  • jukejoint

    There’s a bunch of free Mad Men stuff in the “On Demand” part of my cable. (I have Comcast.) It promises sneak peeks of Season 4. The pieces are called Cast of Season 4, Mad Men Rules (with some stuff about all the smoking and drinking), Women of Mad Men, and all the episodes from Season 3.

    • deez

      Whaaaaaaaa? I wonder if Directv has this? (I assume no) Must Check!

  • Verbally Dyslexic

    Posting this for the article and for THAT FACE. Yes x 824,562,375,237,650 for more Hamm on the big screen.

    http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/07/the_star_market_jon_hamm.html

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      I still want to cry about him doing a KRISTEN WIIG movie, but yes, the world needs more Hamm.

      • deez

        He’s the new Cary Grant. I’m serious…handsome, smart, charming, funny, great comic timing…how is that not a goldmine?

        • JaneRochester

          Are you kidding? It’s a goldmine x eleventy!!!!!

    • jukejoint

      That article is really stinky about some things, though. Nobody in Kansas watches Mad Men? Nobody in the Midwest has ever heard of Jon Hamm? What, are we troglodytes between the coasts?

      I know I, personally, only watch Big Brother and the WWE, and I speak for everyone in the wilds of Illinois when I say this. What is this Made Man you speak of? A mafia show with MC Hammer? What?

      • deez

        What, are we troglodytes between the coasts?

        Why, yes we are. Not only are we tasteless illiterates, but if we had them TeeVees, we wouldn’t know what to make make of play-acting programs. We wouldn’t have time to figger out how them tiny people got into that flat box anyway, what with the trudging back ‘n forth to the outhouse.

        • jukejoint

          Where are you, anyway, deez? Somewhere in the cornfields like me?

          • deez

            Oh yes! I’ve been a resident of 3 hicksville states as a matter of fact. Oklahoma (my place of origin), Indiana (briefly), and The Evull Land of Chikin (Arkansas). You can’t get more “flyover” than that.

      • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

        I did actually take issue with that, especially since Jon Hamm is a proud St. Louisian. My parents are huge fans of the show (I bought them the DVDs) and my mother called me last night to tell me they were caught up on Season 3. In addition to my parents, I have lots of friends back home who are fans of the show.

        As someone born & raised in the midwest who has spent the last 10 years of their life on the east coast, I can discern the differences, and yes, I indulge in stereotypes from time to time but this still kind of bugs me.

      • JaneRochester

        I live in the wilds of northern Illinois, but I own a dictionary. That makes me speshul. (The fact I was also born in OK makes me even more speshul!)

        • deez

          A fellow native Oklahoman? Whereabouts? (as we say in the sticks?)

          • deez

            Obviously the second ? was unnecessary. (Being anal retentive in these matters, I can’t let it pass)

          • JaneRochester

            OKC, hun. Yew?

          • deez

            The “lovely city” of Clinton.

          • JaneRochester

            Clinton? LIB. My cousin’s wife is from there. They and the rest of my passel o’ cousins live in Hydro.

            Howdy, Beanbag! Where in Illinois? (I love HeeHaw. I even have a tshirt.)

            FOUR HOURS, PEOPLE.

          • deez

            Lawsy me, (<—My grandmother’s fav expression, she was also a big HeeHaw supporter) sometimes we’d even drive over to the big city of El Reno(!) on a Friday night.

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            My Dad watched Hee Haw when I was a child. Did Minnie Pearl ever die?

          • JaneRochester

            Yep, Minnie passed on in ’96. I believe she was buried in her hat. Roy Clark is still kickin’ tho. And everyone knows about BR5-49, right?

          • deez

            Junior Samples, Minnie Pearl, Cousin(?) LuLu, Grandpa, Buck Owens, the (something)Twins, and a bunch of Ellie-Mae Clampett lookalikes! I HATED going to my Grandma’s because it was like 24/7 HeeHaw/Lawrence Welk/Roller Derby.

      • Beanbag

        Hello everyone – my first post! After months of lurking, it takes a diss on the midwest to delurk. I (and the hubbin) have LOVED Mad Men since its first episode and I have a shameless crush on Jon Hamm. We also live in the “wilds” of Central Illinois. I get extremely tired of the snobby assumptions of the coasts that those of us in the midsection of the country only like Hee Haw and drag racing. (Well, I did like Hee Haw once upon a time).

        Happy there is a place to gush on the show and Mr. Hamm! Have been looking forward to tonite for a long time.

        • Beanbag

          And holy cow, just noticed my avi. How do I change that – I want a monster, too.

          • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

            Welcome, Beanbag!

            Do you have a WP blog or WP account somewhere else and use that avi?

          • Beanbag

            Thanks for the welcome, TI! Actually, I did figure out how to change it from what it was. I forgot I had an avi from my brief posting time at MJ’s months ago. I changed it to something a bit more generic, heh. The monsters are cool, though!

          • deez

            Hello BB! (lol, I just used “BB”)

            You’re just in time for the party!

        • Beanbag

          Thanks for the howdy’s deez and JaneRochester!

          I live in the middle of Illinois, near Peoria. Surrounded by corn and soybeans.

          Feels kind of like Christmas. Lots of anticipation for tonite! Will have to sit and watch with family, but hopefully can get back here to discuss the epi.

          • jukejoint

            I am in B-N, Beanbag. So not very far from you at all. I was born in Peo.

          • Beanbag

            Oh wow, just down the interstate, jukejoint. I think that’s awesome. Small world!

  • FreeDavidCook

    http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/07/richard_p_bennett_moron_of_the.php

    While searching around the internet for Mad Men and crazy news stories I ran across this article about a midget stripper not too far from you TI! I know you love your midgets

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      Thank you!

      I saw that. It made the cover of the Herald, of course. I’ve just been sad NO ONE has sent it to me. I mean, LOOK AT IT! LOOK AT IT!

    • Verbally Dyslexic

      Lol! That is so random and awesome..

      TI, did you follow the exploits of La Pequeña, as chronicled by Michael K? S/he was beyond words.

      • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

        What do you think? ;)

        I still wonder where La Pequeña is on a weekly basis. I still love her.

        • Verbally Dyslexic

          I noticed no new videos of her on Dlisted since 2009. It’s not like there’s a dearth of quality trashy pop culture references for her to parody. I am slightly concerned.

  • jukejoint

    Ah, here we are in the happy part of the universe, looking ahead to the new season of MAD MEN (Three days, people! Three days!), imagining if Jon Hamm lived next door, or Don Draper lived next door, or Dick Whitman lived next door, and how I might bring him a cool glass of lemonade and we could sit on the porch for awhile and talk about Shakespeare and how I got a piece of Venus & Adonis with my Chocolove chocolate bar and how awesome the sonnet and the chocolate bar were, and then we could both have chocolate and lemonade and maybe recite sonnets to each other…

    • mtlfan

      i don’t know anything about that series but I’ll watch the first episode. Great guy and really handsome :D

  • Verbally Dyslexic

    There needs to be a film of Jon Hamm in Hammer pants, singing Can’t Touch This.

    • cc

      ….or maybe a group dance performed by The Hammily (???) wearing their Hammer pants?!

      Erm…probably not. :p

      • deez

        :D

  • Mary

    CRAPPP!! I told myself that I would watch the first 2 seasons of Mad Men before the season premiere :(
    I loved loved LOVED Inception. Chris Nolan and Leonardo DiCaprio can do no wrong in my eyes. Its refreshing to see a brand new original concept instead of the same shmuck like “Step Up 3D”. They better not make an Inception 2 though.

    • jukejoint

      You have enough time (with breaks to sleep and eat) to see all three seasons between now and Sunday night. I think that would give you about 29 hours of DVDs to watch to see all three seasons (13 shows each season X 3 seasons X 45 minutes each…) You have about 94 hours to watch 29 hours of “Mad Men.” Plenty of time…

      • Verbally Dyslexic

        I think the episodes stretch to about 55 minutes, since the show is on cable TV. But well worth every minute. Like jukejoint said, plenty of time.

        • jukejoint

          Nope. I was doing the treadmill to them for awhile, and for the first season, anyway, they’re almost all just a teeny bit over 45 minutes (three miles on the treadmill). I think “The Wheel” (first season finale) was longer. But I would say they ran 46-48 minutes as a rule.

          • Verbally Dyslexic

            Oh, I know why, maybe it’s the recaps that made them seem longer to me.

    • cc

      I haven’t watched the third season but I already cleared out my schedule to watch it this weekend. Well, I tried not to read any post here that might have some spoilers before I finish it…

      I’m not an avid Leonardo’s fan but I admit that his recent movies (this and Shutter Island) are pretty good unlike Keanu’s. Heck, I didn’t mind Jaden Smith before(I did enjoy Pursuit of Happyness) until he sold his soul to Bieber.

    • Mary

      Haha jukejoint and VD, thanks for the timing breakdown! I’m gonna start tonight!!! :)

  • Lauren

    I feel like everyone is going to kill me but…I really don’t get the appeal of Jon Hamm. Hmmm….

    • Verbally Dyslexic

      GASP! How dare you.

      *Buys one copy of For Your Entertainment and burns it.

      • Lauren

        LOL! Hey, well at least it helps his sales…xD

        • Verbally Dyslexic

          :D

        • http://8sourcandy.wordpress.com/ 8sourcandy

          Jon Hamm doesn’t do it for me either, however I do enjoy Joan. I also love the look of the show and the interesting character dynamics. I wish I didn’t cancel my cable halfway through that abysmal season of Idol.

          Does anyone know how to watch it via internet?

    • JaneRochester

      We would never kill you, Lauren. But I will soberly offer you my deepest sympathy.

    • auntieaimee

      Lauren, I think you’re too young to get the appeal, and that’s ok.

    • wino

      oh, lauren, young one, let me count the ways….

      1) that voice

      2) he exudes quiet confidence

      3) tall and handsome, if you like that sort of thing

      4) broad shoulders

      5) snappy dresser

      6) mad men / don drapper appeal

      7) book smart, socially aware, pop culture savvy…knowledge is sexy

      8) he isnt a skank, has been with his gfriend for 10+ yrs. in hollywood, thats pretty impressive

      9) he’s a guys’ guy without turning into a fratboy jerk

      10) hamm = meat = naughty thoughts

      • Lauren

        LOL wow, you have thought about that a lot. My mom thinks he’s adorable so I’m guessing it’s the age thing though I usually do like older guys…

  • CayKat

    Thank you for the Hamm vids. Always a pleasure.

    As for your Inception reference – fuuu! (with love) and you know why dammit!

  • jukejoint

    Someone at Jezebel said “I bet even cartoon Jon Hamm will be totally doable.”

    So true.

    • Destry

      LOL! Well he DOES tell Tina Fey on 30 Rock that they used his body in a speedo as a sketch for Prince Eric. So scrumptious…

  • JaneRochester

    He is soooo f*cking hot. And such a fantastic actor. And a colossal dork.

    I begin to understand what drives the Glitter Cows…

    (That MC Hammer exchange may be the longest improvised extended metaphor I’ve ever heard. If memory serves, dude was an English major at one time. *sigh* Can you imagine walking into a classroom and seeing THAT as your TA?)

  • FreeDavidCook

    Hey, then I be getting ripped off! I never hear the lovely Hamm-tones when on my daily call to Comcast to bitch about the slowness of my Xfinity connection.

    • http://topidolblog.com TopIdol

      I don’t either. I just play them in my head. Because Jon Hamm’s voice could get a person to do nearly anything.