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Jason Segel, Padma Lakshmi Mingle at a Movie Party in N.Y.C.

Originally posted 03/14/2012 05:55AM

Stars came out to celebrate Monday night after the FIJI-sponsored screening of Jeff, Who Lives at Home at Landmark Sunshine Cinemas in N.Y.C. At the afterparty – held at Sons of Essex – Jason Segel held court, graciously greeting friends and well-wishers with a cocktail in hand.

Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi and another of the film's stars, Susan Sarandon, were inseparable; they entered holding hands and spent the evening looking at photos on each other's phones and chatting closely in the VIP area. Padma noshed on some of the appetizers, including truffled mushroom pizza, too.

The film's Ed Helms was also there, with an older couple that appeared to be his parents. – Kate Hogan

VIDEO: Ed Helms Makes a Mock Political Ad for SNL

Originally posted 05/15/2011 01:05PM

Who are those white guys running for president?

"We all look the same and our names are boring," says Ed Helms in a Saturday Night Live skit.

But fear not. The Hangover Part II star helps sort out the GOP field by playing most of the hopefuls all rolled into one. Among their shared beliefs: "Church stuff."

Ed Helms: Going Naked Isn't So Funny

Originally posted 02/11/2011 10:30AM

As if losing a tooth in The Hangover wasn't proof enough of just how uninhibited Ed Helms can act, then go take a look at his latest effort, the big-screen comedy opening Friday, Cedar Rapids.

In it, the costar of The Office, here playing a dorky Midwestern insurance salesman, not only has intimate scenes with Sigourney Weaver and Anne Heche, but also shares a bare-all, towel-dropping embrace with Kurtwood Smith, who played the father of Topher Grace's character on That '70s Show.

"I was completely naked," Helms, 37, told PEOPLE at Thursday's New York Cinema Society screening of Cedar Rapids, sponsored by Altoids. "I feel that those little modesty pouches that they give you for nude scenes are far more humiliating than actually nudity, so why not just go for it?"

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