(CNN)From "Clueless" and "Friends" to the "Ant-Man" franchise, Paul Rudd has played everything from heartthrob to hero, and now, he's the Sexiest Man Alive.
Rudd earned the grant from People Magazine, which was unveiled successful an extended drama sketch of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Tuesday night.
Colbert enactment Rudd done a bid of "sexiness" tests, including a carnal exam, a Westminster Dog Show-style judging round, and photograph shoots arsenic a operation idiosyncratic and monk, to amusement disconnected whether helium could marque thing sexy.
It culminated with Rudd pouring a gallon of h2o implicit his head, "Help me, I'm drowning successful sexiness."
After each the tests, a serious-looking Colbert told Rudd helium "tested antagonistic for sexy," and arsenic the histrion began to locomotion distant successful evident disappointment aft thanking Colbert for the opportunity, Colbert and a roomful of radical dressed successful achromatic laboratory coats statesman to clap.
"There's thing sexier than humility ... and you passed!" Colbert said, "Paul, you're the sexiest antheral alive."
"I'm the sexiest antheral alive?!" Rudd exclaimed successful daze arsenic helium covered his rima earlier being crowned, fixed flowers and a beauty-pageant banner reading, "SEXIEST MAN ALIVE."
The "Clueless" prima told People Magazine helium hopes he'll beryllium invited to "some of those sexy dinners with Clooney and Pitt and B Jordan."
"I mean I'm going to thin into it hard. I'm going to ain this. I'm not going to effort to beryllium similar 'Oh, I'm truthful modest.' I'm getting concern cards made," Rudd told the magazine.
Rudd stars successful Sony's "Ghostbusters: Afterlife," which is slated to deed theaters aboriginal this month. He besides starred successful "Role Models," which helium helped write, and held a diagnostic relation arsenic Mike Hannigan connected the deed sitcom "Friends."
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