Jon Stewart - Hands down the number one hottest man.

Dan Futterman - So handsome it hurts.

Jonny McGovern - The gay pimp! Woot! What a hottie.

Josh Groban - What a voice; will make you swoon.

Barack Obama - One word. Barack.

What's up with all the haters who take themselves way too seriously and bash Salon because it happens to run an article without a byline of global warming or dead Iraqis? Jee-zuz. Lighten up.

One of the greatest British songwriters of his generation? One of the smartest dressers on the planet? The drop-dead sexiest man I've ever laid eyes on? Check, check, and check. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Paul Weller.

You forgot Vincent D'Onofrio. Sexiest weird guy alive.

I love the broader definition of sexy you apply to the men of the world......

For sincerity, artistry, compassion, the ability to make anyone he comes across feel gorgeous and downright beautiful, I say Tim Gunn's got it. He's handsome, erudite, and expresses pride in true creativity. That's sexy

The first film I saw him in was "The Lover" directed by Anaund set in Indo-China in the 1920's It was an English language film about a Chinese businessman falling in love with a very young french schoolgirl. I've never forgotten the film or him.

I hate to break it to you, but that is a different Tony Leung. There are two of them. The Tony Leung in "The Lover" is known as Tony Leung Kai-Fa (Big Tony).

The Tony Leung in this article is Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (Short Tony). This Tony is the action film star.

I thought he was gay!

Love his show, though.

Owen Wilson, Jon Hamm/Don Draper, brooding Dylan...Fine then, make me confront my sick fascination with the attractively haunted. I still miss Fox Mulder. Just last night I was watching Crowe in L.A. Confidential and sighing lustily.

The Simpson's hit this phenomenon square on the bowed-with-sorrow head on Sunday with 'Little Orphan Millie.' Millhouse thinks his parents are dead and suddenly becomes the hot brooding loner.

Summed up in Nelson Muntz's great line, "He's troubled! But I can save him!"

Thanks for Leslie Cheung, he's made Hong Kong and Chinese film watching all the more worth while for YEARS! I also must agree about Matt Damon, he's been the sneak up on you sexy one for most of his career.

I also agree that Keith Olberman was unfairly excluded - he is so HOT !! When he ends his broadcasts with "Be there, Aloha" - I get weak in the knees. Please remember him for next year!

Also, I kinda dig Ben Foster - he played the crazy sidekick to Russell Crowe in 3:10 to Yuma, and the really crazy prison inmate on My Name is Earl (to name a couple of appearances).

And please, I know, but... but let's talk about The Rock. Dwayne Johnson was the only reason I ever watched pro wrestling. Holy Blue Hell, he's smokin'!

I must have most amazingly sexy boyfriend because not one guy on that list does a thing for me...

Alec Baldwin is a dillweed and Sean Penn is a pinhead. Drop both bozos and put in Dog the Bounty Hunter and Ann Coulter.

And when you do a sexiest women article, make sure Kari from Mythbusters is NUMBER ONE WITH A STAR. She is so damn hot.

Do you guys even realise there is a world outside the USA?

It is full of men whom I have actually heard of.

If your heading had said "the sexiest men known to Americans" I would have been more impressed.

Jude

"There's more to life than pretty boys"... but John Hamm comes in number one? When did Salon jump the shark?

I read three pages of this, then couldn't stand it anymore, so I went to letters. Brightstar finally contributed something of value by alerting non-readers like me that Colbert wasn't in here.

Salon, when you try to go frothy you really just look kind of pathetic, like a middle-aged woman flirting with the frat boys in the bar.

Kpao, Alan Rickman was one of my picks last year!

We are SO catfighting.

Jon Hamm is the man. I thought he was my delicious little secret. Could he be more manly? No. He could not.

Peter Sarsgaard is large and in charge whenever he's on screen. I'm happy to see that he made the cut.

To this list I would add John Barrowman, the omnisexual alien-hunter from the BBC's Torchwood (on BBCA in the States). He's out, he's a hunk, and he kissed the 9th Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston square on the lips. Yum!!!

He wants universal, single-payer health care and a Department of Peace. He stood up to the banks and saved Cleveland's municipal utility -- and saved residents millions in energy costs over the years. He was against war with Iraq from the beginning and voted his beliefs.

Dennis Kucinich, squinty-eyed, off-key, narrow-shouldered little Dennis from Cleveland, gets my vote. The brain packed inside that guy is a suitcase bomb of sexiness.

An old soul with a voice that stops people in their tracks, not to mention a smile that turns patellas to butter and makes hearts flutter. An ever changing combo of jazzy country with a Latin underpinning and a nod to the swingin' 60s. And he's actually NICE to his fans, takes time after nearly every show to sign autographs and take pictures until the last fan has gone home. Check out his brand new Christmas album, Marshmallow World and Other Holiday Favorites. You'll be hooked.

Check out his MySpace page if you don't believe me: www.myspace.com/raulmalo

...to Flight of the Conchords! But where's my favorite (possibly weird choice, but still...) actor Alan Rickman?

Omar Vizquel? Are you talking about the same crybaby who had an onfield meltdown over Arthur Rhodes diamond earring? Oh, yeah! Temper tantrums by overpaid athletes are sexy. Puh-leez!

Ah, Jacques Pepin.

One of my favorite tv moments ever was watching Rick Bayless's Mexico cooking show featuring Pepin who has obviously not embraced Rick's encyclopedia of exotic, healthy living schtick. They're bustling around the kitchen and Pepin is getting more and more wine-drunk—it's like four in the afternoon—and there's this great quick moment when Rick almost snaps at Pepin for working slow, drunk, happy. I love weird Rick just as much, though.