{"id":60136,"date":"2025-07-12T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60136\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T17:41:09","slug":"ed-helms-did-hangover-despite-socially-conservative-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/60136\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Helms Did ‘Hangover’ Despite ‘Socially Conservative’ Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed Helms<\/a> certainly did not end up having the career that his parents envisioned for him. \u201cThe Hangover<\/a>\u201d \u2014\u00a0and its two sequels<\/a> \u2014\u00a0are about as far from traditional, buttoned-up, family-friendly comedy as a movie can get, and this ran precisely counter to Helms\u2019 upbringing, as he shared with host Ted Danson on the SiriusXM podcast \u201cWhere Everybody Knows Your Name.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI grew up in a kind of a repressed Southern home. Politically, very progressive, but still a very socially conservative kind of environment,\u201d Helms said (via Variety<\/a>). \u201cAnd so \u2018The Hangover\u2019 is nuts. That\u2019s not what they raised me to do, to be in a movie like \u2018The Hangover.\u2019 So my parents \u2014 at that point they\u2019d seen me do crazy stuff on \u2018The Daily Show\u2019 and \u2018The Office<\/a>\u2018 \u2014 and so there was some sort of acceptance already, but, still, I was nervous for my parents to see \u2018The Hangover.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a> \"Tom<\/a> <\/p>\n

Helms, 35 years old by the time the first \u201cHangover\u201d movie was released in 2009 (and made over $469 million<\/a>), ended up putting aside his nerves and taking his parents to the premiere.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m looking at my mom, the lights come up, and she\u2019s crying. Tears streaming down her face, and, for a second, I\u2019m like, \u2018Did I just break my poor mom\u2019s heart?’\u201d Far from breaking her heart, Helms\u2019 mother was impressed, telling her movie star son, \u201cThat was so funny\u201d and giving him a big hug. \u201cI\u2019ll just never forget that was such a special moment,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n

Helms has previously spoken of<\/a> the difficulty he had dealing with the sudden fame that came with the immediate success of \u201cThe Hangover,\u201d which catapulted him from television favorite to major motion picture player.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a tornado of fame and a lot of buffeting. It was very overwhelming,\u201d Helms told Conan O\u2019Brien on his podcast<\/a> in 2022. \u201cI really was reeling a lot of the time, like in the aftermath of \u2018The Hangover,\u2019 I was getting scripts for all these different kinds of projects. \u2018Like what do I do? I dunno.\u2019 I was kind of spinning out and panicking about different things. Like, \u2018Well, what kind of a career do you want?’\u201d<\/p>\n

Helms credited his co-stars Zach Galifianakis and Bradley Cooper <\/a>for keeping his feet on the ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it wasn\u2019t for those guys, I don\u2019t think I would\u2019ve stayed sane. But we all had each other to kind of be like, you know, I don\u2019t know, just to commiserate and measure ourselves,\u201d Helms said. \u201cAnd I think we kept each other from drifting too far. And being too unprofessional.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ed Helms certainly did not end up having the career that his parents envisioned for him. \u201cThe Hangover\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[43583,41405,171,1020,53,41406,31108,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-60136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bradley-cooper","9":"tag-ed-helms","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-film","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-the-hangover","14":"tag-the-office","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114841497260374744","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}