How did Jon Hamm go from playing America’s favorite philanderer on Mad Men to becoming the worst cult leader/DJ in Indiana in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt? The answer is pretty easy, the actor said at the The New Yorker Festival Saturday night: “Tina and Robert came to me and they were like, ‘We want you to play this guy, it’s a super important part, it doesn’t shoot that much,’ so I said, ‘Okay what’s the deal?’ They said, ‘He’s the guy … who keeps women in a bunker underground … it’s funny. It’s not a weird sex thing.’ And I was like, ’What?’ But I just leaned back on my number one rule of comedy, which is basically just do anything Tina Fey says.â€
Of course, Kimmy Schmidt wasn’t Hamm’s first foray into comedy, or even his first time working with Fey. Who can forget 30 Rock’s too-handsome-for-his-own-good Dr. Drew? Hamm recalled the day they shot his infamous tennis scene, where his character screams, “This racket is a fart!†“I can’t even curse well,†joked Hamm. So where will Hamm and Fey’s comedy partnership go next? Can we get him on Great News as a handsome newsman?