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Who Has the Best Mustache in History?

Yosemite Sam or Dr. Robotnik? Tom Selleck or Clark Gable? Cap'n Crunch or the Monopoly guy? GQ editors weigh in on the best mustaches of all time.

Released on 12/18/2015

Transcript

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Who's Taft, oh, like, oh, the president,

Taft.

Taft

Taft, he was fat, right?

Yosemite Sam.

Oh, Dr. Robotnik, hands down.

Yosemite Sam, absolutely.

Oooh, that's tough, Selleck had the stache,

I'll go with Selleck

That's one ...

Tom Selleck, I'm gonna say Tom Selleck.

Tom Selleck, but only because everyone used to say

my day looked like Tom Selleck when he had a mustache.

Monopoly guy.

Oooooh, Monopoly guy.

Neither, they're cartoons, c'mon.

Daniel Day.

Daniel Day-Lewis, for sure.

Stop right there, Genghis Khan, done.

Genghis Khan.

Oh man, Jesus, that's my boy.

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My favorite celebrity mustache or beard ...

I like the James Harden,

I feel like I would be able to rock that,

because I'm one of those people who looks a lot better

when his face is obscured.

So I would like as much beard as possible.

Does it have to be living?

Ulysses S. Grant.

I like early Springsteen.

Young Springsteen, that dude knew what he was doing.