A List of Zaddys

What is a zaddy?

A zaddy is a guy you look at and think, zamn, zaddy... Immediately, you know in your heart who’s not a zaddy. It’s an instinctual response that’s not worth explaining in depth because you’re supposed to just feel it. The subject is not merely conventionally “hot”—he’s a zaddy*. In other words, there’s an inner zaddiness. (The Rock is nice and built, but not a zaddy in my eyes. Neither is Nicholas Cage.) If you don’t like the idea of “daddy,” let alone “zaddy,” well, I feel you, but you don’t have to support the idea of zaddy to recognize one. Here is an incomplete list of famous zaddys, unranked.

*Doesn’t have to be an actual father.

1. Chris Pine anytime

2. Justin Theroux in sweatpants

3. Trevante Rhodes

4. Idris Elba obviously

4. Jason Momoa, an unfair specimen

5. Drake when he’s bearded and in the gym

6. Mahershala Ali

7. The combination of Justin Trudeau and Barack Obama

8. Charlie Hunnam (A reading zaddy!)

9. Nas (zaddy eyes)

10. Chris Hemsworth dressed as Thor

11. Usher. Yes, still!

12. Joe Manganiello

13. Tom Hardy, menacing

14. Omari Hardwick (See this.)

15. Jon Hamm unleashed

16. Odell Beckham Jr.

17. Zayn Malik

18. Oscar Isaac

19. Kofi Siriboe. Get to know him.

20. Scott Foley

21. John Slattery, eternal zaddy

There are many more. You define them in your hearts. Happy Father’s Day!