It's okay to like Robert Pattinson. (Well, maybe. We're still working this one out in our heads, but bear with us here.) The actor's appearance on last night's Daily Show may have made him the most winningest-on-the-heels-of-losing Hollywood movie star — which is to say, more relatable than we would've previously imagined — since Hugh Grant apologized on The Tonight Show after he got caught cheating on Elizabeth Hurley with a prostitute. Think about that for a moment: Elizabeth Hurley.

While the sins of Robert Pattinson are less damning and perhaps more vague in your mind — paid millions to be a pseudo-Mormon vampire teen idol, and what was the thing with Kristen Stewart? — just know that this is the beginning of his rebound. (A bit of background for those who don't read trash-weeklies: Stewart cheated on him. Now the guy can't buy a Big Gulp without seeing his girlfriend dry-humping a forty-year-old. Not that we really believe he drinks Big Gulps, but still.) The Daily Show visit, timed to David Cronenberg's excellent Cosmopolis movie adaptation (in which Pattinson can hold his own in scenes with Paul Giamatti and Juliette Binoche, we swear) has solidified his status as someone quite possibly worth rooting for. Or at least not hating anymore. The mishandled jokes, the obvious nervousness. It was ham-handed, sure, but also human. Watch the video and see if you don't agree.

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Anna Peele Anna Peele is culture writer and editor who has written features for Esquire, GQ, The Washington Post Magazine, and ESPN the Magazine.

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