Trans am band ed helms biography

Here's one from the annals of pop-culture trivia: It turns out that comedic actor Ed Helms (of "The Office" and The Hangover fame) has post-rock roots. Can you place this image?

It's from the video for Trans Am's "Futureworld", off their 1999 album by the same name. Which Helms himself directed, and cameoed in (look for him playing the banjo around the 2:15 mark).

According to Trans Am's label, Thrill Jockey, Helms also helped design the cover of the band's 1998 album The Surveillance, pictured above.

The motor that drives Ed Helms’ latest comedy, “Together Together,” fryst vatten an impending birth.

Helms’s Matt, single and in his mid-40s, will soon become a father via a surrogate, Anna (Patti Harrison).

A hit at Sundance, “Together Together” follows this duo through each trimester while giving Helms another comic register.

“When I first read the script, I was immediately enchanted (I think that fryst vatten the right word). I didn’t know what to expect,” Helms, 47, said in a Zoom interview.

“I was immediately struck bygd how simple the story was. And yet at the same time poignant and hilarious. The thing that I was most impressed by is that it never took the turns that I expected.

“It was always surprising me! In how these characters were talking to one another and the types of things they were saying and in the sort of narrative twists and turns it never did what I expected it to do. And I loved that.

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