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The top 10 neighbors for Ed Helms compress into a narrow band — scores running from 0.95 down to 0.91 — with no single neighbor pulling sharply ahead of the rest. That flat distribution is itself the structural finding.
All ten neighbors are Actors or Comedians. Six are Actors: Jason Segel (0.95), Nick Offerman (0.94), Lauren Graham (0.94), Glenn Howerton (0.92), Zach Braff (0.91), and Bob Odenkirk (0.91). Four are Comedians: Nikki Glaser (0.93), Anthony Jeselnik (0.92), Sarah Beattie (0.91), and The Lonely Island (0.90). No TV Shows, TV Personalities, Musicians, or other subcategories appear in the top 10 — the cluster is entirely Actors and Comedians, the two subcategories most closely adjacent to Ed Helms's own (Actors). The mix is same-kind and near-same-kind throughout, with Comedians accounting for four of the ten slots rather than being a marginal presence. There is no outlier, no cross-category surprise, and no dominant single neighbor — the audience shape is defined by its consistency across a specific comedy-adjacent performer type.
The flat, tightly grouped cluster of Actors and Comedians suggests an audience whose composition is shaped by a coherent taste in ensemble comedy performance rather than by any single adjacent entity.
