Neil Patrick Harris

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I didn’t have a chance for an Emmy live-blog (which would boil down in any case to “somebody just won something” over and over, especially since I’m not very good at writing about the important thing: clothes). I’ll have some thoughts after the full list of winners is available. I will say that the Hairspray songwriting team, which wrote Neil Patrick Harris’s song material for the Tonys and Emmys, should just write special material for him all the time. Harris is fun, though he seems to have a sore throat at times and isn’t always great at thinking on his feet and coming up with a “saver” or a response to an unexpected audience reaction; that’s what professional comedians are good at doing, but I think it’s worth trading that off to get Harris’s likability.

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I think Neil Patrick Harris is a great choice for the Tony Awards host, but if they’re going to eliminate all the awards from the broadcast, I don’t know if I see the point of watching:

The Tony awards don’t excite me much, but Neil Patrick Harris is an excellent choice as host of the show (June 7). And who knows — Hugh Jackman has already shown that you can go from the Tonys to the Oscars. I know, Harris isn’t a movie star, but one can still dream.

And it was fun!