Dan Rydell (Josh Charles)
Sports Night

A character description of snarky-with-a-heart sportscaster Dan Rydell, from the late, great Aaron Sorkin dramedy Sports Night, reads like a virtual want ad for a guy's best friend: Dependable, witty without being annoyingly wise, smart without being cloyingly smarmy (like costar Joshua Malina's Jeremy) — and just as able to get a group of coworkers to go for late-night margaritas as he is to fill 10 seconds of live air time, both at the drop of a sombrero. — Jason Adams