Neil Patrick Harris is returning to the stage Sunday night to host the Emmys for the second time.
The multi-talented star has already proved his hosting talents at a variety of big telecasts and events. But E! Online reports that the How I Met Your Mother star is dishing about some of his more memorable hosting moments.
Harris revealed that he particularly enjoyed hosting the 65th Annual Tony Awards in 2011. He said, “I got to sing ‘It’s Not Just For Gays Anymore,’ which was great. I was really happy that the Theatre Wing approved that idea. It was a bold, more overt, starker sense of humor level than they have had in the past.”
Harris also opened up about what he won’t be able to get away with while hosting the Emmys on Sunday.
“The nice thing about more niche-y awards like the Video Game Awards is that you have fewer people that will tell you that you can’t do certain things. Hence, in the opening number…I gunned down all the dancers with AK-47s, and I had a whole bit where I did Angry Birds live. We had live chickens and I was trying to shoot them from a real-life catapult into painted green pigs in boxes. They won’t let you do that stuff on the Emmys!” he joked.
ABC News reports that Harris told Entertainment Weekly what viewers can expect to see on Sunday.
“You’ll see me dance,” he said. “There’s a big choreographer’s number that we’re doing, where all the nominated choreographers have been asked to join forces, come up with this big giant dancer number that we’re doing live on the show. It has to involve TV and has to involve me in some way.”
The Primetime Emmy Awards airs this Sunday, September 22nd.
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