There are many reasons why The Price is Right has been on the air for 20 years (I know that’s not the right number. My strategy at this game is to always guess low). However, perhaps its most endearing quality is its audience participation. There’s nothing more fun than seeing how excited regular people get when they hear their name called. I mean, you never get to watch Alex Trebek call anybody down, do you?

But, one question remains; how excited is too excited. On today’s episode, one contestant attempted to find out when she body checked Drew Carey to into the wall and dry humped guest host Neil Patrick Harris.

Sometimes it seems like half the goal of the Tony’s every year is to trick “regular folks” into caring about the theater. And, when this year’s crop of shows included output from the South Park guys, Chris Rock, and Harry Potter, and the show itself was being broadcast on CBS (your parents’ network!), this year seemed like a perfect year to go for that mainstream audience. So, last night’s Tony’s opened with host Neil Patrick Harris delightfully pointing out the effete, blue state elephant in the room with a hilarious song (as good or better than some of the actual show tunes performed that night!) entitled, “It’s Not Just For Gays Anymore!”

Neil Patrick Harris knows very well that the only thing that can possibly make baby twins even cuter is dressing them up in various holiday-themed costumes. The new dad showed David Letterman several pictures of his twins, Gideon and Harper, dressed up for St. Patrick’s Day, Easter and Cinco de Mayo. Yes, sure, two of those holidays might be overwhelmingly associated with becoming blackout drunk and, yes, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera very likely never ever celebrated Cinco de Mayo, but still: Awwww! BABIES!

This past weekend, song and dance man and frequent award show emcee Neil Patrick Harris showed up to host Spike TV‘s Video Game Awards and in the process mocked his own past show opening numbers. After a 60 second choreographed dance, Harris arrived on the scene, declared “what the #%$& do you think this is . . . the Tony’s” and discharged a hail of bullets leaving dead dancers everywhere.

How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris is living the double-shot experience of raising six week old twins, and on The Talk yesterday, he admitted a lot of his great intentions have given way to the urgent desire to quiet two crying babies:

“At this point, we are like whatever it takes–a shot of whiskey, whatever–just stop fussing.”

It’s hard not to love Neil Patrick Harris. And it’s nice that he and his partner David Burtka are going to be daddies to twins. But if you want the media to respect your privacy, maybe Twitter isn’t the best place to announce the news.

em>Glee — whose first 13 episodes were simply spectacular — walked away with 19 Emmy nominations this morning including ones for Kristin Chenoweth for her guest turn as April Rhodes, Neil Patrick Harris, and Jane Lynch. Note to Newsweek: That’s two Emmy nomination for gay actors playing straight characters. Here’s some of our favorite clips.

Last night’s ‘dreamy’ episode of Glee starring Neil Patrick Harris was the first episode of the show to air since the Newsweek/Glee gay actors controversy exploded into the headlines last week. But the timing was serendipitous since without that article likely no one would have thought twice about a couple of scenes that subsequently took on a greater meaning.

It’s a scoop related to pop culture and primetime television, so the source should be no surprise. Michael Ausiello is reporting that Arianna Huffington will be the next guest to join the ensemble cast of How I Met Your Mother for an episode later this spring. Ausiello also tragically noted that she won’t be the titular Mother that Josh Radnor’s Ted has been boring his kids with for years (although it would new a great TV moment if she ends up as the next conquest of Neil Patrick Harris’s Barney).

It turns out that putting movies like Avatar for Best Picture and having Miley Cyrus and Taylor Lautner present awards really does pay off for the Academy. Or maybe it was having Neil Patrick Harris do that opening number (everyone loves NPH!). Either way, despite having one of the most boring red carpets we’ve seen in awhile, the ratings for the Oscars this year were the highest they’ve been since 2005. But we think we know why.

Old Spice is on a campaign to get your attention. Throwing out the rulebook that you need to tell your consumers why they can’t live without your product, the new Old Spice message is the exact opposite, letting viewers in on the joke: not only the insanity of thinking your life problems could be solved by smelling good, but the ridiculousness of the entire ad industry’s credo. “The Man Who Smells Like The Man Your Man Could Smell Like” is the latest example of this clever campaign.

When I say the name “Joss Whedon,” the faithful say “Amen!” But the rest of the world says, “Who?” Joss Whedon, the creator of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (the film and the series), “Angel,” “Firefly,” “Serenity” (the movie based on “Firefly”), and the most-recently-cancelled “Dollhouse,” is not the household name he should be. But his [...]

It all started so simply. The guys at the blog AfterElton decided to have people vote for gay of the decade and the race soon came down to Neil Patrick Harris and John Barrowman. Then, the celebrity tweeters got involved and now #biggaybattle is one of the hottest trending topic on Twitter. But the battle has had a major victory: Harris and director Kevin Smith are hashing out a two-year old feud via Twitter.

When the decade began, the gay community was recovering from its unrequited love affair with the Clinton administration and worried about the culture war being waged by religious conservatives. By the end of the decade, the same people were dealing with their unrequited love affair with the Obama administration and, well, you know where this is going. Still, the decade was not without its highlights – we’ve still come a long, long way since 2000. So, on to the gayest moments of the Aughts!

Wow. What an age we live in. On one network, Adam Lambert is banned for being lewd and lascivious; on another, “Frosty the Snowman” is celebrated for it. Yes that’s right: CBS has taken that favorite holiday classic and defiled it with porn, boobs and a pretty clear reference to crabs.

Here’s another by-product of the Letterman ratings bump: More attention on Craig Ferguson equals more web-surfing his site for clips equals stumbling into this clip: Neil Patrick Harris Reads Craig’s Book. Insta-click, obvs.

It has started — the Internerds have uploaded tonight’s Emmy ep of Dr. Horrible (background here) and it is begun metastasizing across cyberspace, from Mashable to Mag.ma to Newsweek’s Tumblr to an, er, Neil Patrick Harris appreciation blog to Dr. Horrible Himself. Did we love it? Yes, along with New York‘s Emily Nussbaum and Time‘s [...]

Because we love Neil Patrick Harris, and showtunes, and because we’re nerds, the first thing we looked for after the 61st Annual Emmy Awards finished was the clip of Harris kicking off the show with his fantastic opening number, “Put Down The Remote” — and the lyrics. We found the clip but strangely, no compulsive [...]

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 [...]

Neil Patrick Harris is a magician, literally. He does magic tricks (video inside). But Harris’ career has also been magical: a child star turned grown-up award host; an anxious closet case turned poster boy for “content” gay actors. All eyes on Harris at this weekend’s Emmy awards.

Like vampire or zombie bites, geekdom is infectious. But this year it really seems like something has changed. Everyone seems to be talking about Comic-Con. With an entertainment industry that is interested in sequels, franchises and the already-proven value of any new investment in an entertainment property, Comic-Con has become the center of both the entertainment-industrial complex as well as the countless fan-universes that each franchise has created.

  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 [...]