Topic: Neil Patrick Harris

Neil Patrick Harris Apologizes For Saying ‘Tranny’ On Live With Kelly

Neil Patrick Harris Apologizes For Saying 'Tranny' On Live With Kelly

Despite being an openly gay actor and LGBT rights advocate, Neil Patrick Harris is not immune to the LGBT community’s wrath: GLAAD and other organizations called him out for using the word “tranny” twice during his guest-hosting gig on Live with Kelly on Friday. Neil has since apologized, but it’s a fascinating example of how the queer community is sometimes at odds with its members. More »

Neil Patrick Harris Doesn’t Forget the Little Guys, Joins Up for ‘A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas’

Neil Patrick Harris Doesn't Forget the Little Guys, Joins Up for 'A Very Harold & Kumar 3-D Christmas'

You can credit the Harold & Kumar stoner comedies with rejuvenating Neil Patrick Harris‘ career: In 2004′s Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, Harris played a fictionalized version of himself as a drug-addled playboy. Audiences loved seeing the guy they knew as cute Doogie Howser hilariously spiraling out of control. The next year, he introduced us to Barney Stinson (very much the same character, minus the drug habit) in How I Met Your Mother. His part in Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) was even bigger: ‘Shrooms, branding hookers, and getting shot dead.

He could’ve let it go there and walked away from a franchise that helped establish him as a comic actor. More »

How Neil Patrick Harris Is Right (And Wrong) About Fixing ‘Real Housewives of New York’

How Neil Patrick Harris Is Right (And Wrong) About Fixing 'Real Housewives of New York'

Last night on Watch What Happens Live, host Andy Cohen invited Neil Patrick Harris to join him for their postmortem of the show. In this case, they were discussing the first half of the Real Housewives of New York reunion. NPH didn’t seem to have much use for the Housewives (although he did confess to sort of liking Kelly Bensimon), and when asked for suggestions about next season, he replied, “You need to eliminate all of them and start from scratch … Get people who have more to do in their life than create conflict.” More »

Video: Lin-Manuel Miranda Writes Neil Patrick Harris’ Tonys Rap Backstage

Video: Lin-Manuel Miranda Writes Neil Patrick Harris' Tonys Rap Backstage

A lot of stuff at Sunday’s Tony Awards happened on the fly: Brooke Shields‘ flub during the opening number, several overly enthusiastic acceptance speeches, and Neil Patrick Harris‘ closing rap. Lin-Manuel Miranda (he wrote the lyrics and music for the musical In the Heights) had perhaps the toughest job of the night: He sat backstage and waited for each award to be announced, then speedily wove it into a doable rap. Also, he cracked West Wing jokes, which makes him our kind of guy. More »

Tony Awards: Neil Patrick Harris’ Tuxedo Is Not Just for Gays Anymore

Tony Awards: Neil Patrick Harris' Tuxedo Is Not Just for Gays Anymore

Neil Patrick Harris‘ opening number “It’s Not Just for the Gays Anymore” celebrated the fact that “straights” and “heteros” from the red states are pouring money into Broadway — and yet he still managed to dance with shimmying sailors, saucy nuns, coy flight attendants, and bright-eyed Mormons. And sport this dazzling purple number, which he wore for only a few seconds before slipping back into his more respectable black tux. (Except that the canary yellow ascot stuck out, and for that we love NPH even more.)

Update! We’ve got the video of NPH’s opening number to go with his snazzy duds. Check it out after the jump. More »