Hasty Pudding To Roast Jon Hamm as 2025 Man of the Year

Golden Globe award-winning actor Jon Hamm will be the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 2025 Man of the Year, the student theater company announced Tuesday.

Hamm received both an Emmy and Golden Globe Award for his starring role as advertising executive Don Draper in the 2007 show “Mad Men.” He also acted in major roles in “Fargo,” “Landman,” “Baby Driver,” and “Top Gun: Maverick.”

“The Pudding is proud to celebrate a truly unique and impactful presence in the world of entertainment,” the group wrote in a press release.

Each year, Hasty Pudding — a theatrical group composed entirely of Harvard undergraduates — presents a Man of the Year and Woman of the Year award to two celebrities. Irish actor Barry Keoghan and Academy Award-nominated actress Annette Bening were last year’s recipients.

Hamm will be the 58th Man of the Year following the award’s establishment in 1967.

The celebration, which includes a roast of Hamm and a presentation of the ceremonial Pudding Pot, will take place Jan. 31.

“We are beyond excited to honor Jon Hamm as our 2025 Man of the Year,” Hasty Pudding Theatricals President Catherine J. Stanton ’25 said in the press release. “Of course, to claim his Pudding Pot, he’ll have to prove he’s the real Jon Hamm—we’ve seen how good he is at keeping an identity under wraps!”

This is a developing story and will be updated.

—Staff writer Darcy G Lin contributed reporting.

—Staff writer Samuel A. Church can be reached at samuel.church@thecrimson.com. Follow him on X @samuelachurch.

—Staff writer Cam N. Srivastava can be reached at cam.srivastava@thecrimson.com. Follow him on X @camsrivastava.