Name: Ed Helms - SNAFU w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ed Helms - SNAFU w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand' from We Might Be Drunk Podcast on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-05-19. Transcript available.

Ed Helms - SNAFU w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand

all right we started up let's roll all right how about you ed you like the booze
nah come on uh i mean i i used to like it and it does weird things to my um to
my heart
oh really yeah yeah i think it's bad for you i just kind of stopped it kind of
sets my heart
and weird rhythms and oh geez so you just stick with cocaine yeah i drink
cocaine yeah that is super
weird but it's great i wonder if that would work if you mixed it in like a like
a liquid iv you know
if that would get no one's ever wanted to waste that much cocaine i guess you're
right what i do
is i melt it yeah see and then i and then i get it in a syringe and i inject it
into my eyeball is that
freebasing no that's where you smoke it it's freeballing that's this is the nerdiest
drug
conversation i know is that what freebase is this is like those conversations a
kid has with with
their dad right where the dad's like now listen i don't want you to do the coke
the the thing that
you snort yeah it's like dad you don't snort marijuana yeah how do you know you
already know
too much you gotta test your weed there's fentanyl in it you're like dad do
people did people always
try to do a shot with you after the hangover oh man yeah i mean that was hangover
fans like to drink
yeah yeah that way so when that movie came out it was a lot of like god we're
buying you shots and
they'd like shove a shot in your face and if you didn't drink it you could get
punched yeah and that
weird they get really upset if you don't drink it you're like i never asked for
this most of the
time i was happy to oblige yeah yeah till the heart failure yeah till things
got weird yeah we have a
friend joe de rosa who i feel like likes funerals because you can't turn down
the shot
you can't be like to dave you gotta be like all right fine yeah he actually
goes to funerals he
doesn't know yeah he's a funeral crasher yes hey not sequel right cool that's
not bad but yeah i feel
like old school fans hangover fans i feel like they will they want to do a shot
with you know yeah
office fans are like let's have a let's have a craft brew
right let's have it let's have an ipa let's have a nice conversation over a
craft brew that's cool
i'm down for that amen i feel like the hangover though for it was 2008 2011 and
2013 the the three
trilogy i think you're off a little bit may pull that up there wasn't it like
2010 or 11 the first
one but i feel like that was the last run for the fun love and comedy movie and
you got in i think hot
tub time machine was like the last one year was that that was it right i feel
like it kind of cut
off around there but you guys got them in at the buzzer and they were snuck
that one in there yeah
and they were all great i said hangover is one of the last comedies i remember
seeing in the
theater it's 09 was the first one 11 right i mean i did bridesmaids come after
yeah right
yeah bridesmaids i saw that in the theater but how many comedies can you
remember like
tropic thunder that's that was awesome was that before yeah i think it was a
later i think it was
before oh really i think tropic thunder was before but there's something about
i guess like
live shows of you know thank god for us because we tour all the time and we
people come out to see
stand-up but i mean i feel like back back in the day like it was great to see a
comedy in a pack
oh man i remember we're we're like sort of midtown west here right in this yeah
so i i remember uh
when i lived here um going to see something about mary oh i was such a such a
huge ben stiller fan
from the ben stiller show and uh and i was you know it was early what year was
that pull that one
up 94 i'm calling no no no no wait okay 98 so i just i moved here 96 i'd just
been here for two
years just struggling to get those open mic spots and doing as much comedy as i
could and and i i loved
mr show and the ben stiller show and and all these all those great shows and
and uh and like ben
stiller's in a movie oh my god and i went by myself yeah and it was in this
neighborhood uh because
for some reason i lived in brooklyn but this was where maybe it was i snuck out
of work or something
and uh and i i sat in this packed theater by myself and it was like one of the
best movie going
experiences ever because i loved that movie i when i first saw it i was crying
in the theater sitting
in by myself between like you know it was packed yeah because that's when
theaters were packed when
a movie came out and people were excited like they packed theaters oh yeah and
it was real that was
back when water cooler talk everybody was talking about the the jizz and the
hair and the pranks and
beans and uh like the brett farve of it all that was a hell of a time matt dylan
oh such a killer in
that movie oh yeah and it's all killers like lee evans kills it like chris elliott
like everyone's
amazing yes but yeah but matt dylan stole it with a forehead like a drive-in
movie oh it's also amazing
because i saw we were on the road once we downloaded i guess like the extended
version of it and the scenes
they chose to cut were exactly right like they just oh interesting they just
kind of disrupted the
momentum it was one of those things where they just they nailed it yeah that's
good that's reassuring
when that happens yeah well you know some comedies they they don't nail i love
it i love a tight comedy
i love a 90 minute comedy you gotta keep it tight i remember when we were
shooting those hangovers and
and we'd be shooting scenes like that might we should shoot out a sequence but
we'd be doing the scenes
that are like towards the end of the movie and todd phillips the director was
always just like faster
guys faster we're like we're just trying to get the lines out he's like it's
the end of the movie
it's the race to the finish which was as he kept saying it's the race to the
finish uh which i think
he said was something that ivan reitman told him it's like a critical sort of
comedy thing when
you're when you're making a comedy no that third act it's a it's just like a
guns blade interest you
gotta go you can't go irishman on a comedy you know you gotta keep it tight i
mean just old in a
prison dying isn't that funny although that scene where he beat up the guy was
pretty that was pretty
funny but yeah he did not look young seinfeld too you know they were like here's
a here's a brinks
truck full of money make eight more seasons and he's like now we're cutting it
here yeah the show's
over it's all about timing you gotta know when to wrap it up yeah it's hangover
did you know when
you're making that you're like this is really good i think uh we knew that we
were having
like an unprecedented amount of fun and so we all felt like we were onto
something there's never
at that point none of us were very well known so there was no sense that like
oh this is gonna be a
hit but we definitely knew we were making something that we were gonna love
yeah and be proud of and
and we would hope people would see it um and honestly i think that energy is
what that's like
like anything i think that carries projects is like when you can feel that the
team involved whether
it's it's the cast and and sometimes the crew and everybody is like when you
can feel that that
they're psyched yeah it doesn't matter if it's a comedy or a or a drama or an
action movie when you
can feel the cat i would i would i would say the same thing about the office
like everybody on the
office loved the office and loved making it and loved being in in that
conference room together and
cracking each other up and that i think is like this intangible magic that
makes the product good
and it's like it's like that love that a cast brings to something uh is is what
sort of opens the door
for an audience to to feel that way you can feel it unlike those seth rogan franco
move they're
they're actual friends you can feel not anymore yeah but they're actual friends
and you can feel
it in the in the yeah the movie for sure this is the end yes pineapple express
i love yeah i love
those movies they're so good that was like a crazy stretch like we really took
for granted i was sick
a couple weeks ago when i love you man just came on and i was like oh shit this
is funny yeah i forgot
these are just all funny oh my god samberg in that movie yeah is just he's
great we used to have
comedies it was like i mean that was but that was like a crazy amount of hit
comedies at once
yeah like forgetting sarah marshall was on too i was like this is hilarious isn't
that weird because
my agent's always like comedies don't play well in theaters now and you're like
but that's what's
supposed to be a theater comedy and horror are great for theater or for movie
theaters like it should
be where still hits horror hits but you know they say comedy in a movie theater
is no go anymore which
is insane because you would think like like comedy clubs are are a thing
because people like to laugh
together yes that's what i think that's what i think that might be hurting it
is how many live
acts are on the road right now i think people are like yeah i'll just go see
this live show
wait was it i think there's so many live shows on in any city at a given time
that they're like
instead of going and there aren't that many comedies being made so i think
those two combined
how many comedies are in the theater first off and then secondly like oh there's
eight comedians
doing a show there's all these comedy clubs or theater act comics you know and
at a comedy club
you're gonna get the trump jokes you're gonna get that i think people are
craving that because
the news is so bonkers yeah and you're not gonna get that with a comedy movie
yeah it's just a movie
about a lady who's autistic and okay or whatever all right we hope it comes
back we we're trying to
make a movie right now we we want comedies and i love seeing a comedy movie in
a theater
oh yeah especially a black theater yes nothing better i saw american pie in a
black theater and
that was that added an element popcorn flying riffing you know their own jokes
it was great i saw 12
years of slave in a white theater not a good experience oh boy it wasn't good
no but when you're on the
office we were talking about that before matt and i were talking about that
before you came here about
how you showed up it was season three right correct yeah that's a hard thing to
be the guy who shows up
and becomes a fan favorite like yeah i think about like married with children
and when jefferson showed
up and people wanted to hate that guy uh you know what i mean i know it's a
different show but like
i think that guy was great on married with children yeah he's hilarious yeah he
was in a bunch of comedy
um but yeah you i mean you're kind of like the enemy of dwight you show up and
you become like you
just embrace it man it's great tough shoes yeah you know it was um that there
was something about
that moment where uh the show had decided to to kind of bounce jim over to this
stamford branch
and so that obviously needed a cast it wasn't we we weren't introduced as an
intrusion into
dunder mifflin we were sort of introduced as this kind of satellite thing and i
think that made it
easier for fans to to to sort of digest and then i'll also i would also just
share that that the cast
and the writers and the whole sort of office community when when we showed up
and when i say
we i mean um chip estley who played our boss there in the uh uh in the stanford
branch and rashida
you know when when we showed up as these new characters we were so embraced by
the cast and
everyone you know i think there are situations where like cast members can feel
threatened by new
people or there'll be sort of bad mojo or bad energy like hold on we're just a
czar show but there was
none of that and the writers were so excited and to to welcome us and again
like that's the energy that
we're feeling and the cast is bringing and audiences feel that too i think i
think all of that sort of
comes through the screen a