About (Late) Last Night: Ed Helms talks to Conan O’Brien about baring his ‘naughty bits’

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Monday night, Ed Helms stopped by ‘Conan’ to promote his new movie, ‘Cedar Rapids,’ but one subject predominated the conversations: Helms’ derriere. In the comedy, Helms plays an insurance salesman who heads to the titular Iowa city for a debauched convention. One scene calls for Helms’ character to bare almost-all when a towel unexpectedly drops from his waist. Naturally, the nude scene was pressing on O’Brien’s mind. ‘I couldn’t help but notice that you expose your buttocks. Let’s get this on the table,’ he said. Helms didn’t miss a beat. ‘Let’s get my buttocks on the table right away,’ he agreed.

For Helms, appearing in the buff was less humiliating than the legal wrangling over said nudity. The actor shared with the ‘Conan’ audience his ‘nudity waiver’-- the contract which, as Helms put it, ‘delineates in legalese every nuance of your body which will be shown.’ Not surprisingly, the contract is both absurd and hilarious -- especially because it was, apparently, written by a lawyer with his or her own comedic aspirations (hint: the waiver includes a precise definition for the term ‘naughty bits.’) At the risk of offending more delicate readers, we can’t reprint too much of the interview here, but it’s worth a watch.

-- Meredith Blake
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