Jon Hamm: 5 Awesome Performances And 5 That Sucked

4. Dr Drew Baird - 30 Rock

Tina Fey's behind-the-scenes sitcom about the lives of the people who make a TV programme which definitely isn't Saturday Night Life has had some pretty great guest stars over the years. Matt Damon played a pilot love interest for Fey's showrunner Liz Lemon, James Franco was a heightened version of himself who loved a Japanese body pillow, and Chloe Moretz played the corporate nemesis of Alec Baldwin's company head (hilariously). One of our favourite celebrity appearances was Jon Hamm's short role in the show as another of Liz's potential suitors, her next-door neighbour who was a paediatrician, and also unbelievably handsome. Which added up to him being particularly desirable, something he was totally unaware of.

In fact he was so totally oblivious to how really, really, ridiculously good looking that Dr Drew Baird didn't realise that he had a totally perfect life because people bend over backwards for guys who are really, really, ridiculously good looking. So of course, perpetua disaster magnet Liz had to go and pop the "bubble" he'd been living in, forcing him to enter the real world. Where he promptly lost both his hands - one in a firework accident, the other in a helicopter crash. Hamm is enjoyably goofy, charming and a bit dense in the part, and was so game for a laugh that he appeared in the live 30 Rock specials which saw him play newscaster David Brinkley and a blatantly racist take off on old sitcom Amos 'n' Andy. The guy's really frickin' funny.

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