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The "Horrible Emmys" puns will be beaten to death before the night is through, but even before the broadcast begins tonight on CBS it's a pretty good bet what the high point of this weekend's obligatory awards show will be.  Yesterday, Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello breathlessly reported on EW.com that "Sources confirm...exclusively that host Neil Patrick Harris will headline a Dr. Horrible-themed production number about midway through Sunday’s ceremony."

Well, duh.  Dr. Horrible's eponymous NPH is hosting the show.  Plus, his singing was pretty much the most bearable part of this year's Tony Awards (which he also hosted). But wait, there's more! (more...)

David Javerbaum is the "Consulting Producer" of The Daily Show, which is what they call you when you've been writer, Head Writer, Supervising Producer, tried to quit to write the lyrics for a Broadway musical, got called back to be Executive Producer, did that for a few years, got nominated for a Tony for that musical, wrote for the Oscars, collected a few Emmys and Peabodys, consulted on The Colbert Report, wrote the lyrics for A Colbert Christmas, got nominated for another Emmy, joining yet another Emmy nomination for The Daily Show, which is evidently pretty hard to leave. (Confused? Follow along here.) He is also the author of the new not-related-to-the-Daily-Show-at-all book, What To Expect When You're Expected: A Fetus's Guide to the First Three Trimesters, which will be released next month by Spiegel & Grau. Clearly, in addition to being very funny, he is also very potent. How potent? Judge for yourself in this latest installment of 5QQ - Five Quick Questions. (more...)

VIDEO Neil Patrick Harris is a magician, literally. He does magic tricks (video below). He's on the board of theMagic Castle the infamous LA magic club. And he hosted the World Magic Awards last year. He also likes scavenger hunts! But Harris' career has also been magical. In the past five years, Harris has both come out publicly and played a rough-around-the-edges lech on CBS' How I Met Your Mother. And during his transformation from Doogie Howser to gay grown-up, Harris has magically remained somebody that straight men kind identify with and women can fall for. (more...)

 

 

 

 

Fresh off the Tonys on June 7, Neil Patrick Harris (and hopefully one of his shiny suits ) will take the stage to host the Emmys on September 20. Coming off two consecutive nominations for the supporting actor in a comedy series category for How I Met Your Mother, NPH will also be working as a producer for the broadcast. (more...)