Onetime Daily Show correspondent Ed Helms is returning to his former basic cable stomping grounds, as the star and executive producer of The Fake News With Ted Nelms, a new special for Comedy Central.
Per our sister site Deadline, Fake News will feature “absurd, made-up news that closely resembles real news, delivered by an absurd, made-up guy who closely resembles Ed Helms.”
Will you tune in for the eventual premiere of Ed Helms’ Ted Nelms’ Fake News?
Emmy-winning Daily Show vet Stu Miller will also serve as an EP. Helms was a Daily Show correspondent from 2002-’06, before joining fellow alum Steve Carrell on NBC’s The Office.