Bowen Yang got nervous around Jon Hamm’s hotness on ‘SNL’

Jon Hamm is so hot that it can be a bit nerve-racking for his costars. 

On a recent episode of Bowen Yang’s Las Culturistas podcast, the Saturday Night Live cast member revealed that he was genuinely antsy about working with Hamm when he hosted the sketch show last month — because the Mad Men actor happens to be both ridiculously attractive and ridiculously kind.

The memory came up as part of a conversation with Joel Kim Booster about how frustrating it was that their Fire Island costar Zane Phillips was hot, talented, and nice all at the same time.

“Wait, let’s just speak on this,” Yang said, “because I experienced this recently of getting the nerves when you’re acting with a hot person. It happens all the time, but certain people really f— your s— up.”

Enter Hamm. “When Jon Hamm was hosting SNL, and I was just like, ‘Huh!'” Yang said. “Like, we were playing a couple and I was just like, ‘Wait, I’m scared.'”

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The comedian was referring to their “New Parents” sketch, which saw Yang and Hamm play a gay couple who bring their new baby to a friend’s party… only for their friends to start barraging them with questions about where exactly they got a baby from, because they definitely didn’t have one last night.

Yang acknowledged that he understood that there was “no reason to feel nervous” around Hamm, but he just couldn’t help it.

“Just such a wonderful person,” he said of the actor. “But I was just like… First of all, you’re Don Draper. Second of all, you’re so handsome. Third of all, you’re so funny. Like, just so many wonderful things about that man. And sometimes it knocks me off my center.”

Booster recalled feeling a similar way when they cast Conrad Ricamora in Fire Island.

“The reason we cast Conrad is because Conrad made me forget my lines in our chemistry read together,” he said. “I was so flustered because he is such a vibe. I mean, a hot man on paper — just physically pictures, yes, it reads, he’s very hot. But then you get with him and that close to him, and it’s just like the nerves are… It’s crazy because he is so charismatic and such a vibe.”

“Gravitational field is distorted,” Yang added.

Listen to Booster and Yang talk about the difficulty of working alongside their cutie costars in the podcast episode above.