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- Ed Helms was 'nervous' for his parents to see "The Hangover": 'That's not what they raised me to do'</p>
<p>Raechal ShewfeltJuly 10, 2025 at 7:08 AM</p>
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<p>Ed Helms in 'The Hangover' in 2009</p>
<p>Ed Helms, much like audiences, will never forget The Hangover.</p>
<p>The hilarious 2009 movie about a bachelor party gone wrong — way wrong — after one of the attendees secretly drugs the others during a wild night in Las Vegas raked in $469.3 million at the worldwide box office and spawned two sequels. Not only did it boost Helms' career, but it provided him with a sweet moment with his mom, which he hadn't expected at all from the R-rated comedy.</p>
<p>"I grew up in a kind of a repressed Southern home. Politically, very progressive, but still a very socially conservative kind of environment," Helms said Wednesday's on SiriusXM's Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast hosted by Ted Danson. "And so The Hangover is nuts. That's not what they raised me to do, to be in a movie like The Hangover."</p>
<p>To be fair, does anyone raise their kids to wake up in a Las Vegas hotel with a missing tooth, a new wife, and Mike Tyson's stolen tiger in their bathroom — and no recollection of how any of it happened? Helms, who costars alongside Bradley Cooper, Zach Galifianakis, and Justin Bartha, is the most screwed up of the bunch.</p>
<p>"And so my parents — at that point they'd seen me do crazy stuff on The Daily Show in The Office — and so there was some sort of acceptance already, but, still, I was nervous for my parents to see The Hangover," said Helms, who was a regular correspondent on The Daily Show from 2002 to 2006 and played The Office's Andy Bernard from 2006 until the series ended in 2013. "I was like 35 when that movie came out, and I'm still nervous about my parents."</p>
<p>Helms' mom and dad came to the premiere anyway.</p>
<p>"I'm looking at my mom, the lights come up, and she's crying," Helms recalled. "Tears streaming down her face, and, for a second, I'm like, 'Did I just break my poor mom's heart?'"</p>
<p>He needn't have worried, because they were happy tears.</p>
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<p>Ed Helms photographed in April</p>
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<p>"She says to me that 'That was so funny,' and just [gave me] a big hug. I'll just never forget that was such a special moment," Helms said. "The Hangover was such a pivotal moment in my career, in my life, and for mom to just be all in on it, it meant so much."</p>
<p>Helms is not the only cast member to have strong feelings about family members watching the comedy.</p>
<p>Galifianakis once vowed that his kids wouldn't see it at all.</p>
<p>Listen to the full conversation above.</p>
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