Ed Helms had traveled a long way to get his main role in “The Hangover”, the comedy with classification R 2009 full of sexual jokes and expletives, and thus proudly led one of his greatest fans to the premiere: his mother “socially conservative”.

The actor sat on the Podcast of Ted Danson “where everyone knows his name” this week and said that his mother had already seen him do some “crazy things” in “The Office” and as a correspondent of “Daily Show”, but that he was not sure of whether he was ready for “the hangover.”

“I grew up in a kind of repressed south home,” he said. “Politically very progressive, but it is still a very conservative very conservative type of environment. And thus, ‘the hangover’ is crazy. As, that is not what they raised me, it is being in a film like ‘The Hangover.”

The comedy of Todd Phillips starred in Helms, Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis as a trio of Las Vegas wedding godparents for his friend before his wedding. It had racial insults, complete frontal nudity and much curse.

Helms had already been established as a reliable comic talent at that time: regularly delivered hilarious interview segments for “The Daily Show” from 2002 to 2006, only to jump aboard one of the most beloved television comedies in the United States in “The Office” of NBC.

The actor told Danson that, as a result, “there was already some kind of acceptance” of his parents about his career. But Helms said that, at age 35, he was still “nervous” to see “the hangover” at its premiere of Los Angeles.

Helms, Galifianakis and Cooper, seen here at the 2013 premiere for
Helms, Galifianakis and Cooper, seen here at the 2013 premiere for “The Hangover: Part III”.

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“And the movie ends, and there is a great applause, and I’m looking at my mother,” he told Danson. “The lights get up and are crying. He has how, tears running down his face, and for a second, I’m like, ‘I just broke my poor mother’s heart?'”

“She tells me: ‘That was a lot of fun’, and only [gives me] A big hug, ”Helms recalled.

“The Hangover” finally became a global phenomenon: he won almost $ 470 million worldwide, generated two sequels, and became one of the comedies with a higher r classification of all time.

For Helms, however, his mother’s support was the greatest victory.

“I will never forget, that was a special moment,” he told Danson. “‘The Hangover’ was such a crucial moment in my career, in my life, and for mom to only be in that, it meant a lot.”