--- title: Who Is Dick Whitman? Mad Men Jokes Go Viral During Emmys description: The internet had jokes about that Dick Whitman shout out during Sterling K. Brown's Emmys speech. canonical: https://time.com/4945756/emmys-dick-whitman/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-18T04:22:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:19.639Z og:title: The Internet Loved That Dick Whitman Shout Out Most of All og:description: "It deserves its own Emmy" og:url: https://time.com/4945756/emmys-dick-whitman/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt73d2a5f0e8c3249f/698863deab6d7761356a62f1/150918_em_emmybosses_draper.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 150918_EM_EmmyBosses_Draper og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Loved That Dick Whitman Shout Out Most of All twitter:description: "It deserves its own Emmy" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt73d2a5f0e8c3249f/698863deab6d7761356a62f1/150918_em_emmybosses_draper.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Brought Dick Whitman Back to Life With Jokes After That Emmys Shout Out by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Sep 18, 2017 4:22 AM UTC  Jon Hamm as Don Draper in "Mad Men" on AMC Jon Hamm as Don Draper in "Mad Men" on AMCMichael Yarish—AMC/courtesy Everett Collection by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Sep 18, 2017 4:22 AM UTC During his big moment, _This Is Us_ star and TV superfan Sterling K. Brown gushed that Dick Whitman once held the same [Emmy](http://time.com/4945683/nicole-kidman-emmy-speech-domestic-abuse/?xid=homepage) statue before he did. Naturally, the sneaky _Mad Men_ reference immediately took on a life of its own online. Brown — who also praised Walter White from _Breaking Bad_ in his Emmy acceptance speech — was referencing the birth name of Don Draper, the main character in the [hit AMC drama](http://time.com/mad-men-history/) . (The character changed his name to reinvent himself after serving in the army.) At the sound of everyone’s favorite escaped Pennsylvania farm boy turned creative director genius, people went nuts. Congratulations as always to Don Draper, Dick Whitman, and of course, Jon Hamm. > [](https://twitter.com/KatieMinard/status/909611370794160128) > [](https://twitter.com/lacrossesdhb/status/909621078284218369) > [](https://twitter.com/mel%5Fmed%5Flarson/status/909612247789461506) > [](https://twitter.com/rachmeetsworld/status/909611575698321409) > [](https://twitter.com/MikeMcCabeSad/status/909611289810542594) > [](https://twitter.com/bluenikol/status/909611360870436865) > [](https://twitter.com/jaxel222/status/909611118762582016) Some happily noted that the shoutout happened very close to Elisabeth Moss’s major moments of the evening. That’s because _The Handmaid’s Tale_ actor played Peggy Olsen, Dick Whitman’s protege on the Emmy award-winning series about advertising in the 1960s. > [](https://twitter.com/delic8flower75/status/909612966802157570) > [](https://twitter.com/kaysanch19/status/909612647766794240) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4945756/emmys-dick-whitman/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4945756/emmys-dick-whitman/"},"headline":"The Internet Brought Dick Whitman Back to Life With Jokes After That Emmys Shout Out","datePublished":"2017-09-18T04:22:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:19.639Z","description":"The internet had jokes about that Dick Whitman shout out during Sterling K. 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