Hasty Pudding Man of the Year Chris Pratt Gets Roasted, Then Honored, at Harvard
After his Parks and Recreation co-star Amy Poehler was honored as Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Woman of the Year last week, Chris Pratt took home the Man of the Year title at Harvard’s Farkas Hall on Friday.
The award, bestowed annually by the Harvard theater group, was established in 1967. Its first recipient was Bob Hope; recent winners include Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Walken, James Franco, Justin Timberlake and Kiefer Sutherland.
But Pratt, 35, best known for his roles as lovable goofball Andy Dwyer on Parks and Recreation and Peter “Star-Lord’’ Quill in Guardians of the Galaxy, couldn’t be presented with the pudding pot without being subjected to a little light-hearted roasting.
The Boston Globe reports that the group took aim at everything from his past box office flops to his marriage to Anna Faris, who he met on the set of one of said flops: Take Me Home Tonight.
Pratt vamps it up with Reed Silverman (L) and Sam Clark after receiving the award.
Pratt played along, giving one of the Hasty performers a lap dance, donning a sparkly bra, and breaking a block of “Ron Swanson’s wood’’ with his head.
“The whole thing was a blast and a riot,’’ he said, according to The Harvard Crimson.
Earlier in the day, dressed as Star-Lord, Pratt had visited Christopher’s Haven, a charity that provides temporary housing for families of children undergoing cancer treatment at Boston hospitals. He was joined by Captain America himself, Chris Evans.
Pratt prepares to karate chop a piece of wood during a the Hasty Pudding roast Friday.
Pratt, a Seahawks fan, was making good on a bet he made with Evans, a Patriots fan, on the outcome of the Super Bowl: Had Seattle won, Evans would have had to visit Seattle Children’s Hospital dressed as the Marvel superhero, waving a Seahawks flag. (He still will, with Pratt in tow.) The bet helped raise $27,000 for the two organizations.
All in a day’s work for two superheroes, and one Man of the Year.
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