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I had envisioned doing comedy since childhood. For sure.

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Ed Helms
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: January 24
Actor
Banjoist
Character Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Screenwriter
Television Actor
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Atlanta
Georgia
Edward Parker Helms
Edward Parker Egg Helms
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Sometimes you just create a joke out of thin air in the editing room. I'm really glad I've had that experience. It gives me a little more confidence in front of the camera.
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Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.
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I've been to Indonesia, but I've never been to Thailand. I hear the people are lovely, the food is delicious, and that the heat and humidity are lethal.
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It's kind of hard to win most elections on anti-family, immorality, and Satan-worship.
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[Chickens] are very frenetic. So if you think about it and you look back in other movies, like if someone's taking a crazy bus ride somewhere and it's like, 'Oh, what makes this bus ride crazy?' There's a chicken in the aisle, or like there's a chicken in a crate. So I just think the presence of chickens makes things crazy.
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All I knew is that I loved movies and comedy and TV, and I wanted to perform. I made a bunch of shorts and movies in college, and that was always fun too. I directed some plays in college. It was taking it all in and trying to immerse myself in as much of it as possible.
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You see a lot of sides of people on a movie set because it can be really taxing and to kind of go through all that together - you really get to know someone.
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It's a very collaborative environment [making The Office]. We always do takes of how it's scripted, but then we also mix it up a lot too. And it's kind of a crapshoot, you never know which one... I mean a lot of time improvisation doesn't go anywhere and it's not good at all but, so what was written is often times better.
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There are currently more political parties in Iraq than unbombed buildings to hold them.
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There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.
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You make adjustments according to the specifics of the character.It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done. It's not even necessarily vulnerability, always, but it's an earnestness, a genuine desire to actually do the right thing, but then still make really misguided, stupid decisions along the way.
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It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
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The Daily Show was an incredible training ground for that kind of thing. It was all about discipline and generating material constantly.
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There really aren't any deletes [in The Hanover movie]. There's like one or two deleted scenes but they're not important or meaningful scenes.
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I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.
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So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.
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I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist.
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No one employed [ chaos] better than Jim Henson, by the way, on The Muppets. He had all these chicken Muppets that just brought in the most glorious chaos to whatever scene they were a part of.
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With the tiger you're always on edge, and you always have to keep your distance. The monkey is far less threatening so you're more relaxed around the monkey, and I think that's actually hazardous.
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Working on The Daily Show, I co-produced all those field segments, and that's another huge thing.I probably did more than 100 field segments.
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