Neil Patrick Harris As Emmys Host
Neil Patrick Harris As Emmys Host
Neil Patrick Harris As Emmys Host:
Neil Patrick Harris, Emmy host and star of “How I Met Your Mother,” had a busy Sunday. Harris and partner David Burtka walked the red carpet, Harris hosted the show, and he also was up for and lost the best supporting actor prize to Jon Cryer.
The Emmys are over and the jury is out.
That was thanks to host Neil Patrick Harris, who was praised when he was picked to host the show earlier in the summer and who lived up to every expectation. The TV academy seemed to remember for the first time in several years that its big awards show is supposed to be, you know, entertaining, and Harris, the ceremony’s writers — and, surprisingly, announcer John Hodgman — all delivered the most watchable Emmy show in a good long while.
Harris began the show in Emmy with a musical number, “Put Down the Remote,” that did the usual call-outs to some of the better-known people in the audience but also managed to rhyme “boob tube” with “Tony Shalhoub” and also included a line about how “Mad Men’s” Christina Hendricks could turn a gay man straight — until he spied Jon Hamm sitting a row in front of her.
Harris also milked his non-win for best supporting actor in a comedy for all it was worth, channeling Bob Hope’s old bits as the many-time host but never winner at the Oscars. Winner Jon Cryer played along too, verifying for Harris that it was, in fact, Cryer’s name in the envelope as Harris mock-angrily (at least I think so) urged the director to cut away.
The 3 Best Things About The Emmy Awards
1. Neil Patrick Harris: The very model of a smart, funny host, he was the classiest Emmy host since Johnny Carson, with equally good posture. His “Dr. Horrible” moment, with the stalwart Nathan Fillion, was a high point.
2. John Hodgman as announcer. His articulately daffy commentary on the winners (after a win for the Hugh Jackman-hosted Oscar telecast: “This was the first time a musical number was written for a wolverine”) was excellent dry wit.
3. Bryan Cranston winning for a second year in a row — and he tied with Jessica Lange for the most eloquent speech.
The 3 Worst Worst Things about the Emmy Awards
1. No Emmy for Neil Patrick Harris.
2. The endless, endless boring middle section devoted to awards for reality shows (but: yay, Amazing Race!) and mostly-overrated TV-movies and miniseries.
3. Too many wins for Little Dorrit; none for Generation Kill.
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