It’s not typically {that a} tv present can declare to have 5 complete many years of leisure underneath its theoretical belt, which is why when Saturday Night time Stay lately celebrated its fiftieth season it was a large event. The one/two punch of the SNL50: The Homecoming Live performance and the SNL50 Anniversary Present two nights later served as star-studded tributes to the wonderful sketch sequence, with the live performance seeing a entrance row look by soon-to-be-four-time SNL host, Jon Hamm. The star was seated subsequent to somebody who went viral as a result of nobody acknowledged him, and his story is manner higher than I might have imagined.
What Did Jon Hamm Say About The Man Sitting Subsequent To Him At The SNL50 Live performance?
For those who’re like most individuals, you sat in your cozy garments in your sofa and did perhaps probably the most celeb-watching you’ll be capable to do on the 2025 TV schedule by testing the weekend of SNL50 celebrations in mid-February. Your Mates & Neighbors (which you’ll be able to watch with an Apple TV+ subscription) star Jon Hamm was in attendance, however one of many folks sitting subsequent to him for the live performance was, nicely, decidedly non-famous.
Throughout a latest look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, the Fargo star was requested concerning the man sitting on his proper within the entrance row, whom Hamm calls “the luckiest particular person in New York Metropolis,” and who was, apparently, a paid seat filler for the occasion. The actor mentioned:
This child obtained to sit down from the start of the present to the tip of the present, whoever’s seat he was filling by no means confirmed up. So, he obtained the entire live performance, entrance row, obtained paid, and obtained to sit down subsequent to me. And I saved checking in with him, I am like ‘Dude, do not go away, no matter you do.’
WOW. Are you able to think about? Merely taking a job as a seat filler for a significant occasion like this (which is widespread for issues like awards exhibits and different extravaganzas the place producers don’t need there to be empty seats seen in entrance rows of the viewers at any time when well-known attendees step out to go to the lavatory/take cellphone calls/and so on…) is one factor. However, ending up with the particular person you’re filling in for by no means coming actually is a once-in-a-lifetime alternative.
Fallon adopted up, noting that the person truly went viral for being an everyday, non-famous human within the entrance row of a celeb-filled occasion:
There was a Reddit publish that mentioned ‘Does anybody acknowledge this front-row attendee of the fiftieth homecoming live performance sitting subsequent to Jon Hamm?’ There’s an entire article about this man. And nobody is aware of who he’s.
If changing into well-known (nonetheless briefly) for not being well-known isn’t probably the most 2025 factor that’s occurred to date this yr, then I don’t know what’s! The host (who turned 50 throughout the identical yr because the long-running comedy present that made him well-known) confirmed images from the occasion, and what I seen about this man initially? He’s carrying common garments!
That’s proper, this was not just like the Oscars, the place seat fillers should get all gussied up just like the well-known folks to slot in. Everybody, the Mad Males star included, was in regular duds, so not solely did the man subsequent to him get to attend the entire present, receives a commission, and sit amongst stars, he additionally obtained to do it whereas being extraordinarily snug. What a win! Hamm continued on his seat mate’s unknown standing, and mentioned:
No! And I used to be so happy. By the tip of it, I used to be like, ‘Is that this the best evening of your life?’ And the man was like, ‘Yeah.’
Man, alive. “Yeah,” certainly. With this man’s luck as a seat filler, he ought to perhaps do nothing however that professionally to any extent further!