As one of several comedic actors who generated considerable buzz as a correspondent on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” (Comedy Central, 1999- ), Ed Helms managed to parlay his popularity into a successful career in features and on television. After having gotten his start in stand-up and doing commercial voiceovers, Helms scored his breakthrough when he joined “The Daily Show” cast in 2002, playing a brash, sarcastic and sometimes silly caricature that gained him certain notoriety for several hilarious and outlandish segments that lived on as some of the show’s finest moments. At the
