Jon Hamm put an SNL50 mystery to rest on The Tonight Show, finally revealing who his unidentified seat-mate was during the anniversary weekend’s big concert.
Among frequent cutaways to the A-listers who packed out Radio City Music Hall for the SNL50: The Homecoming Concert in February, cameras often caught an unfamiliar face seated next to Jon Hamm in the front row. While viewers took to social media hoping to identify the unfamiliar face to Hamm’s right, his identity remained a mystery until last night.
As it turns out, the man was a seat filler—one of many the production enlisted to temporarily fill unoccupied seats. But as Hamm revealed to Jimmy Fallon last night, this man got more than he expected.
“This kid got to sit from the beginning of the show to the end of the show,” Hamm explained. “Whoever’s seat he was filling near showed up.”
“I like to refer to this kid as the luckiest person in New York City,” he added. “He got the whole concert from the front row, got paid, and got to sit next to me.”
“I kept checking in with him,” recalled Hamm. “By the end of it, I was like, ‘Was this the greatest night of your life?’ He was like, ‘Yeah!’”
While Hamm and Fallon moved on to other topics, they kept a surprise in their back pocket until the end of the interview. Coming out of a clip from Hamm’s new Apple TV+ series Your Friends and Neighbors, Hamm interrupted Fallon’s wrap-up.
“Jimmy… Do you see who’s here?” he asked as the camera zoomed out to reveal the SNL50 seat filler, once again seated to Hamm’s right.
“That is Michael Bird!” Fallon announced, solving the mystery of his identity once and for all.
“The luckiest man in New York City,” Hamm reiterated.
Jon Hamm hosts Saturday Night Live tomorrow night with musical guest Lizzo.
