UPDATE: After video of Jon Hamm mid-’90s appearance on a TV dating show went viral, the Mad Men star joked about the video during Tuesday’s appearance on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson. After Craig played the video, Jon quipped, “And that’s how I met your mother.”;
Admitting he was only 24 when he appeared on the show — and “making some questionable decisions with my life”; — Jon is ultimately comfortable that he wasn’t chosen to go on the date. “Think of how the world could have changed,”; to told Craig.
Long before he walked through the doors of Sterling Cooper & Associates, Jon Hamm was a 25-year-old aspiring actor with an unfortunate haircut who was looking for TV exposure — and found it by becoming a contestant on long-forgotten 1996 game show The Big Date.
Hosted by Mark Wahlberg (no, not that one, the one who currently hosts PBS’s Antiques Roadshow), The Big Date was a grunge-era knock-off of The Dating Game, with a woman choosing one of three hunky guys who attempt to dazzle her with their charm.
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Among the men: floppy-haired Jon Hamm, who is not nearly as slick as Don Draper when he promises his wannabe date an “an evening of total fabulosity.”;
Check out the Mad Men star as you’ve never seen him before — and as we’ll hopefully never see him again!
