Ed Helms admitted that because he grew up in an “oppressed southern home”, he was worried about showing his parents “The Hangover.”
While talking to Ted Danson about “Everybody know your name”, Helms explained that he was growing up and juggled with a complicated relationship with comedy because of his upbringing. Thankfully, the art form was something that got him through some more “toxic” aspects of his childhood.
“I think it has a much more complicated origin in growing up in a much kind of oppressed southern home with some toxic elements for it and comedy is a kind of way out of tough situations, or a way to deal with tough people or a way to fix things,” Helms said. “My dad was a very complicated guy, who was brilliant and had some demons, but he was also crazy fun.”
The “Office” alun had found comical success in the 30s, but it wasn’t until “The Hangover” rolled around that he got nervous about how his mother would specifically react. He was worried that how he grew up and the film’s crude humor would collide too much for her.
“I grew up in a kind of oppressed southern home. Politically very progressive, but still a very social conservative type of environment,” Helms said. “And so” The Hangover “is nuts. That’s not what they woke me up, to be in a movie like” The Hangover. “
He ended: “I was like 35 when that movie came out, and I’m still nervous about my parents. They came to the premiere and I’m sitting next to my mom and the movie ends and it’s huge applause. I watch my mom, the lights come up and she cries. Tears flow down her face and for a second I am,” I just broke my poor mom? ” But she says to me: “It was so fun” and just gave me a big hug.
See the entire conversation between Danson and Helms above.
