Ed Helms Recalls His 'Repressed' Conservative Mom Crying During 'Hangover' Premiere
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The actor said his parents didn't raise him "to be in a movie like 'The Hangover'" — but his mom's reaction to the film was a surprise.
Ed Helms had come a long way to land his leading role in “The Hangover,” the R-rated 2009 comedy littered with crass sexual jokes and expletives, and thus proudly took one of his biggest fans to the premiere — his “socially conservative” mother.
The actor sat down on Ted Danson’s podcast “Where Everybody Knows Your Name” this week and said his mom had already seen him do some “crazy stuff” on “The Office” and as a “Daily Show” correspondent, but that he wasn’t sure if she was ready for “The Hangover.”
“I grew up in a kind of a repressed Southern home,” he said. “Politically very progressive, but still a very socially conservative kind of environment. And so, ‘The Hangover’ is nuts. Like, that’s not what they raised me to do, is to be in a movie like ‘The Hangover.’”
The Todd Phillips comedy starred Helms, Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis as a hungover trio of groomsmen desperately combing Las Vegas for their friend ahead of his wedding. It featured racial slurs, full-frontal nudity and a whole lot of cussing.
Helms had already established himself as a reliable comedic talent at that point: He regularly delivered hilarious interview segments for “The Daily Show” from 2002 to 2006, only to jump aboard one of America’s most beloved TV comedies in NBC’s “The Office.”
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