Jay Rowland Ferguson Jr born July 25 1974 is an American actor Best known as Taylor Newton in Evening Shade 19901994 Stan Rizzo in Mad Men 20102015 and Ben in The Conners 2018present Ferguson was born in Dallas Texas In 1989 Ferguson played Ponyboy Curtis in the television adaptation of S E Hintons novel The Outsiders1 His notable television roles include Taylor Newton in four seasons of the CBS sitcom Evening Shade Dr Todd Hooper on Judging Amy Rich Connelly in the 2005 NBC television series Surface Agent Warren Russell on the Showtime series Sleeper Cell Stan Rizzo on the AMC series Mad Men and as Pat ONeal the father of the ONeal family in the ABC series The Real ONeals His film roles include Billy in Higher Learning Elmer Conway in The Killer Inside Me and Keith Clayton in The Lucky One In 2018 he played Chip Curry in the CBS sitcom Living Biblically Since 2018 he has played Darlenes boss and eventual lover Ben in The Conners