Frank Masi/Warner Bros./Everett Ed Helms, much like audiences, will never forgetThe Hangover. 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 millionat 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. "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'sWhere Everybody Knows Your Namepodcast hosted byTed Danson. "And soThe Hangoverisnuts. That's not what they raised me to do, to be in a movie likeThe Hangover." To be fair, does anyone raise their kids to wake up in a Las Vegas hotel with a missing tooth, a new wife, andMike Tyson's stolen tiger in their bathroom — and no recollection of how any of it happened? Helms, who costars alongsideBradley Cooper,Zach Galifianakis, andJustin Bartha, is the most screwed up of the bunch. "And so my parents — at that point they'd seen me do crazy stuff onThe Daily ShowinThe Office— and so there was some sort of acceptance already, but, still, I was nervous for my parents to seeThe Hangover," said Helms, who was a regular correspondent onThe Daily Showfrom 2002 to 2006 and playedThe 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." Helms' mom and dad came to the premiere anyway. "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?'" He needn't have worried, because they were happy tears. Manny Carabel/Getty Want more movie news? Sign up forEntertainment Weekly's free newsletterto get the latest trailers, celebrity interviews, film reviews, and more. "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 Hangoverwas such a pivotal moment in my career, in my life, and for mom to just be all in on it, it meant so much." Helms is not the only cast member to have strong feelings about family members watching the comedy. Galifianakis once vowed thathis kids wouldn't see itat all. Listen to the full conversation above. Read the original article onEntertainment Weekly
