First of all, TV Squad caught up with Neil while he was doing his Smurfs press a few weeks ago. They cover everything from Harold & Kumar to Glee and Doctor Horrible, so check it out here.

Is there going to be a third ‘Harold and Kumar’ movie?
They started filming already. It’s called ‘A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas.’ It’s in 3-D, and they’re filming in Detroit. I’m not dead in the third one.

How are you going to explain that?
You saw me get shot [in the last movie], and at the end of the credits I arose, so I was clearly not dead. All may or probably won’t be explained. There’s a new director on board, and he’s great. We’re doing a giant holiday TV special Christmas medley that I help [out on], so there may be singing and dancing in ‘Harold and Kumar.’ He’s very enthusiastic towards Busby Berkeley.

You have so many different projects going on now.
I’m just so amazed and lucky that things keep slotting in as they do. Things have been very fortunate the last couple of years, to an extreme, but if this movie ['Smurfs'] were happening a month later, I wouldn’t have been able to do it because it would have overlapped with ‘How I Met Your Mother,’ and if this movie had gone on another week I wouldn’t have been able to do ‘Harold and Kumar’ because I had to slot that in. It’s all been circumstantial and wonderful.

And Out.com caught up with Neil not long after last year’s Emmys, in this interview that we haven’t linked here before.

The Hollywood Reporter recently gathered leading comic actors Neil Patrick Harris, Jim Parsons, Ed Helms, Ted Danson, Aziz Ansari and Ty Burrell to talk about all things comedy, including long days, improvising, and reality TV.

Check out the interview (with some videos) here.

Neil tweeted earlier that he was about to go on and do the Today Show with Kathie Lee and Hoda. If you couldn’t get to a TV in time, or live outside of the US, you can watch it on their website here. He talks Glee, Smurfs, HIMYM and the Magic Castle amongst other things!

They also have a web exclusive video filmed after the show, asking Neil how he thought the interview went, here!

Hope you’ve gotten some sleep now, Neil!

The New York Observer was at Time’s 100 Most Influential People gala on Tuesday, and has an article up comprised of brief snippets from the night. Here’s what they had to say about Neil:

“I’m not good at small talk at all,” said Neil Patrick Harris, one of Time‘s influencers. “It will probably be me huddled in a corner with my friend Kate who’s here going ‘Ooh look at that guy, Ooh look at that guy.’”

We asked Mr. Harris about his sphere of influence.

“My sphere of influence. I try to angle myself with as many demographics as I can. The stoner kids can appreciate the Harold and Kumar. The mainstream cats can like How I Met Your Mother. I am able to do the Smurfs movie to appease everyone, and, you know, Regis and Kelly to keep the housewives involved.”

You can read the rest of the article here.

After winning last year’s AfterElton Hot 100, as well as their Man of the Decade poll, Neil has joined in by choosing his own top 10 picks for this year’s list. Voting for this year’s Hot 100 closes tonight – you can get your votes in here, though please note that voting is limited to gay and bisexual men. “After all, the whole point of the AfterElton.com Hot 100 is to tell the world who we gay and bisexual men think are sexy! But since we are interested in knowing what you think, please feel free to use the comments to tell us who your choices would be.” Results will be published on May 17th.

Neil will not be hosting the Emmys or the Tonys this year – in this brief interview with NYMag he reveals that his Smurf commitments will prevent him from hosting the Tonys again, though he’s sure they’ll get somebody great to do the job.

Couldn’t he just jump in for one production number, like he did at the Oscars? “I’ve hosted a lot this last year,” said Harris, laughing. “I think sitting back and letting others take the reins would be not a terrible idea.”

And Jimmy Fallon has been announced as this year’s host for the Emmys, which Neil told Access Hollywood is the perfect choice.

“That’s a perfect choice!” Neil told Access Hollywood when we broke the news to him that Jimmy had been named host of the 62nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards when we caught up with him at the 2010 Time 100 Gala in New York on Tuesday night.

“That is actually who I thought they would choose,” Neil continued. “He’s perfect, I think he’ll be just great.”

Watch his full interview with Access Hollywood at the TIME Gala here.

Finally, for those wondering, Neil didn’t progress to the finals of Celebrity Jeopardy – his semifinal was won by Cheech Marin. Congrats to Neil for making it so far and winning $100,000 for Food On Foot.

Neil talks to Entertainment Tonight while recording a voiceover for a new educational short from Listerine.

As for “This is Your Mouth,” Neil says he decided to lend his voice to the eight-minute film for a number of reasons: “I have a niece and nephew, and so I like being able to do darker, kind of ‘Harold & Kumar,’ Barney Stinson kind of roles that are a little edgier, but I also like to maintain a presence in the demographic within sort of a more educational slant.”

He adds, “I grew up going to EPCOT Center and things, so I enjoy the ‘narration’ voice.”

First things first – if you haven’t seen Neil’s opening number, you can see it on the Oscars website.

In an interview conducted at the Governors’ Ball, he talks to E! about the performance, and his appearance on Glee, which starts filming today.

We’ll be continuing to add to our gallery throughout the day, with both pictures from the ceremony and the Governors’ Ball.

In a new Los Angeles Times article, Neil discusses HIMYM, suits and his own personal style.

“I’m a jeans and T-shirt kind of guy,” he said in a recent interview. “I was intimidated by high-end fashion growing up, and I never really bought into all the expensive things they were hawking in the fashion magazines.

“I didn’t know what to make of it. . . . I’d go into Fred Segal and panic at all the $6,000 shirts. I’d just as soon go to H&M and buy a similar shirt for $70.”

Even so, as a result of playing the show’s well-clad cad, Harris has had the luxury of engaging in some sartorial soul-searching. “Because the wardrobe department adds four or five new suits to Barney’s wardrobe each season, I’ve had the chance to try on just about every brand of suit on the market,” he said.

“That’s how I found that certain brands just fit my body type well. Dolce & Gabbana uses thinner fabrics and that makes them more comfortable for me — that’s another thing I’ve learned from” the show.

Harris, who doesn’t rely on a personal stylist to dress him for talk show appearances and red carpets, has even borrowed from the show’s wardrobe on occasion. “That’s one of the great things about being a guy,” he said. “You can just throw on a suit.”

And when pressed, he’ll admit he can see the wisdom of spending good money on denim (he favors Levi’s and Hudson) and underwear — “the stuff you wear all the time,” he said. He shops for clothes at Barneys CO-OP (“the one at the Grove is pretty good, but I’m usually in New York”). He’s partial to shades of blue and gray, shuns bold patterns and confesses a peculiar addiction to V-neck T-shirts.

“Slate gray is my favorite color,” he said. “I probably have 15 gray short-sleeve V-neck T-shirts in my house. Every time I go to buy clothes, I seem to end up with two more. I’ve got dark gray, darker gray, light gray, lighter gray, [and] darker blue-gray.”

You can read the rest of the interview at the LA Times website, and we’ve added the photoshoot pictures to the gallery, along with some pictures of Neil on the phones at the Hope for Haiti Now telethon on Friday night. The two-hour telethon raised $57m. You can continue to donate by phone, text, or via the Hope for Haiti website for the next six months.

Neil also attended the new Pee Wee Herman show at LA’s Club Nokia last week, and talked to TheStar.com about the show, and the chances of Dr Horrible 2.

The night I attended, I happened to spot How I Met Your Mother‘s Neil Patrick Harris in the audience, and was able to ask him what he thought of the show during an HIMYM set visit the next day.

He essentially agreed with me, having been both mildly entertained and somewhat disappointed with how much of it was recycled. It needs, we concur, more new gags and characters, along the lines of the featured floating puppet “Sham-Wow,” later accidentally deep-fried and resurrected as a ghost.

Harris, a song-and-dance stage star himself, hinted at an upcoming guest appearance on Glee, likely to be directed by Joss Whedon, for whom he also starred in the musical web hit Dr. Horrible’s Sing-a-long Blog.

Harris is as much in the dark as anyone about the likelihood of a Horrible sequel. “I keep sort of asking (Whedon) if it’s gonna happen, if there’s gonna be any kind of Dr. Horrible-ness,” he says. “They’re anxious to do it, but scheduling becomes the tricky issue.”

Neil directs the January 18th episode of HIMYM, which guest stars Amanda Peet.

Really, what can’t you do in the entertainment industry?
Give me something to try to do and I’ll see what I can make of it. It’s a great business. I’m a huge fan of the process of it

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Neil has done another pre-Sketchfest interview, this time with San Jose Mercury News. It was most likely conducted a couple of weeks ago as he mentions being in the running for Gay Man of the Decade, rather than winning it. You can check the whole interview out here!

How did you learn about San Francisco Sketchfest and how did you become involved?
Janet Varney is a very close friend of mine. She’s one of the three founders (with Cole Stratton and David Owen) and I’m a wild fan of hers. So I do whatever she tells me to do. I think it’s an amazing feat that these three people take on so much.

How do you know Janet?
Dave (Burtka), my better half, was in “On the Lot,” which was a competition reality show to find the next great director — a thing that Steven Spielberg produced. Janet and David were both actors on the show. They got to hang out and get to know each other, and we obviously all started hanging out. She and (boyfriend) Chris Hardwick — they’re hilarious together. I just like watching them perform around a dinner table.

Are there any performers at Sketchfest you’re especially excited about?
A John Hodgman. I just worked on a movie with him. And I got him to be the voice-over announcer on the Emmys.

When they announce the winner, you have a voice-over person say, “This is Michael’s third nomination.” I thought it would be fun to have John Hodgman do made-up ones like, “This is Khan’s second win; he was raised by packs of wolves.” I kind of wanted it to be one of those TiVo moments, with John in a booth making stuff up.

Joss Whedon, who directed you in “Dr. Horrible,” called you “the Sinatra of TV.” Time magazine called you the “icon of cool masculinity.” You really seem to be having fun with the kind of buzz you’ve generated from how your career has most recently unfolded.
I don’t take any of it to heart. Apparently, I’m in the running for gay man of the decade. Everyone’s looking for something to say about people and I’m flattered that what they say about me is generally positive. It’s been a lovely year. You try to represent yourself as best you can and execute as well as you can.

MagicNewsWire.com has posted a brand new audio interview with Neil, conducted on Monday. The interview, with MNW’s Dodd Vickers, last for half an hour. You can listen to it streaming on the site, or if you’d prefer there are various options for adding it to iTunes, downloading the MP3, etc.

As we approach Magic Week at the Magic Castle in Hollywood, California, Neil Patrick Harris joins me for a second interview on the Magic Newswire podcast to discuss the 100th Anniversary of the mansion and “It’s Magic 2009.” Neil also talks about Max Maven’s resignation as the Castle’s Entertainment Director, why magic is an important part of his life and what the future has in store from his magic and for the Magic Castle.