- Jon Hamm tells PEOPLE in an unique interview that he’s excited to host Saturday Evening Stay once more
- When the actor hosts SNL on April 12, he might be joined by Lizzo because the night’s musical visitor
- Hamm, who made his internet hosting debut in October 2008, final hosted in October 2010
Jon Hamm is a Saturday Evening Stay professional at this level.
In an unique interview with PEOPLE, the actor, 54, says he’s excited to return to host the late-night sequence for the primary time in over a decade on April 12.
“It is humorous. It has been 15 years since I hosted, so I’ve forgotten — Am I speculated to be nervous but? I do not keep in mind,” he says.
“I am very a lot wanting ahead to it. It is a large honor to be requested again,” continues Hamm. “It is such a singular factor to do in our business, and in tv, and clearly, with the fiftieth anniversary being what it was, and I used to be a giant a part of that too, that was very cool.”
“I am simply so honored to be part of that household, for certain,” provides the Your Buddies and Neighbors star. “It is actually, actually cool.”
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When Hamm hosts SNL on April 12, he might be joined by Lizzo, who will function the night’s musical visitor.
The Mad Males alum final hosted the present in October 2010. Earlier than that, he hosted in January 2010, and he made his internet hosting debut in October 2008.
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Hamm’s 2025 internet hosting gig will transfer him nearer to becoming a member of SNL‘s iconic and prestigious 5-Timers Membership — an elusive group of people that have hosted the present a minimum of 5 instances.
Reflecting on that achievement, Hamm tells PEOPLE, “I am within the Unbelievable 4. I’ve coined that time period.”
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Earlier this yr, whereas talking with reporters following his crowning because the 2025 Hasty Pudding Man of the 12 months at Harvard in Cambridge, Mass., Hamm opened up about why he might be “eternally grateful” to SNL creator Lorne Michaels for his prolific profession.
“I actually credit score none apart from Lorne Michaels for providing me a [chance to] host Saturday Evening Stay [for the first time] to actually get the sense of, nicely, I do have a humorous facet to me,” he mentioned.
“Most people who knew me earlier than they knew me for Mad Males knew that was the predominant facet of me. So Lorne gave me that chance, which led to 30 Rock, which led to Bridesmaids, which led to quite a lot of different gigs within the Tina Fey, Robert Carlock, Lorne Michaels universe,” Hamm continued. “So I’ll be eternally grateful for that.”
The actor defined that amid the success of Mad Males — by which he portrayed Don Draper, the enigmatic inventive director of a fictional New York Metropolis promoting company within the Sixties — he “was provided quite a lot of roles that have been a model of that character, the place you had been smoking a cigarette and form of brooding, looking a window into the darkish metropolis of some sort of place.”
Saturday Evening Stay airs weekends on NBC.
