NPH

Neil Patrick Harris hosted SNL last night. Between his work on How I Met Your Mother, and as Dr Horrible, I've been a big fan lately. Even still, I only stayed up for the monologue, so I'm lucky NBC cherry picked this clip as one to post on hulu:


Little known fact: NPH actually appeared as Mark, the character he's parodying in that clip, in the first touring company of Rent. When I turned it on last night, I even commented that I would kill to have seen him in that role, he almost seems more suited to it than Anthony Rapp, the actor who originated the role and played it in the film version.

Edit: some research shows NPH's recent popularity has spawned more youtube vids of him than there were last I checked. Here's "What You Own":



And audio only for "Take Me Or Leave Me", which isn't even a Mark song...



- Here's parts of that with video.

And here's Seasons of Love(Their Joanne is gratingly flat in the first chorus).
And here's a press reel in 6 parts hosted by NPH. I've not watched all of them, but the first one has his parts from La Via Boheme, which is what I was really looking for. Having seen it, it doesn't quite live up to what I'd hoped. The other bits I need to hunt down if they're in there are Tango Maureen and Life Support. I have an image in my head of him delivering the line "Maaaaaaaark, Maaaaaaark, I'm Mark!" that I need to know if he pulls off.