Ed Helms

Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)

Team Coco

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Ted Danson’s digging into conspiracies with actor, comedian, and musician Ed Helms—except these ones are real! Ed talks to Ted about the stranger-than-fiction stories on his history podcast SNAFU, how he bonded with Mike Schur during the making of The Office, and why he was scared for his parents to see The Hangover. Bonus: Ted makes Ed do his impersonation of Shelby Foote.

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0:00.0	And we would just go get cocktails after work and just pitch ideas and make each other laugh about what a crazy character Andy Bernard was.
0:17.6	Welcome back to where everybody knows your name.
0:20.4	Very excited to be talking to Ed Helms.
0:23.4	You know him from the office, the hangover, the daily show, Rutherford Falls, and much more.
0:29.2	Like me, he's also a podcaster and his show Snafu is all about history's greatest
0:35.9	grew-ups.
0:36.9	I really delight in him.
0:38.7	Here is Ed Helms.
0:42.7	But here we are, two podcasters.
0:45.3	We're going to talk about yours a lot.
0:47.5	Snafu, which means it's a military term,
0:50.6	situation, normal, all fucked up.
0:53.7	Ted? How dare you? Yeah. term situation normal all fucked up dead it's my podcast you uh this is a this is a family show just so you
1:02.8	know um yeah no that's that's world war two i guess some soldiers were just kind of getting
1:09.6	exasperated and you you know, the army loves an acronym.
1:15.2	And so that's where SNAFU and Fubar, which is arguably a better acronym.
1:21.7	Wait.
1:22.4	So messed up, FU.
1:25.2	What is bar?
1:26.8	Fubar.
1:27.5	Yeah. Fubar is fucked up beyond all recognition. Yes. Yeah, F-U. What is bar? Fubar. Yeah.
1:27.8	Fubar is fucked up beyond all recognition.
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