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I didn’t catch the awards because I was at a Modest Mouse show (tough choice, really?), but essentially Mad Men and 30 Rock won, Neil Patrick Harris rocked as the host, Michael Emerson won a much-deserved Emmy for his work as Benjamin Linus on Lost, John Hodgeman brought it as a sort-of color commentator and Ricky Gervais livened things up.

Anything go down that’s notable or not to be missed?  What about the high points of last night’s ceremony? Seems as if everyone is talking about the Dr. Horrible sketch.

Here’s the full list of Emmy winners, including the categories handed out at the earlier ceremony.

If NPH tells you to stay in school you better damn well listen.  On an sort of related note: I think NPH could take Chuck Norris or at least make him cry.  Throwing that out there.  Please discuss.  [via]

Woah, this was on almost two weeks ago.  Don’t know how I missed you obligatory Kristen Bell post, but here she stops by Late Night with Craig Ferguson to chat about arm hair and other sundry topics and then as part of magic week, she gets chopped in half.

Good times.

Great interview, she looks great.  Very lovely.  Take the jump to watch her get chopped up.  MORE »

Last night on How I Met Your Mother Barney (Neil Patrick Harris, what up!) mentioned a video resume.  It is real and you can watch it in either Awesome quality or Not Awesome quality.

If I were you, I’d go with awesome.

We’re turning into the unofficial Doogie Howser fan blog here at The Sly. But it’s all good. I think people could afford to have more Doogie in their lives. So now that Dr. Horrible has ended and the numbers are being crunched as to the business side of things, which Joss himself seems to concur, what’s doing with The Doog?

Well, glad you asked. Or rather we asked. A while back we mentioned that Feist would be adding some hipster indie cred to Sesame Street on the 39th season premiere. And guess who’s going to be there with her? That’s right. It’s the Doogster*.

He’ll be playing a shoe fairy. “Not the shoe fairy – the fairy shoe person. It’s quite a different connotation. I was asked by Sesame Street to be a part of a song and I just leapt at the opportunity. Jim Henson was the only person I ever wrote a fan letter to as a kid and I’m a wild fan of puppets and the Henson Company in general,” he told After Elton. “They wrote a song, wanted me to sing it. There are all these different mythical characters this season. Sandra Oh plays another type of fairy that Abby Cadabra creates and so we got to do this big musical number with puppets and dancing. It was a great, great afternoon. It’s one demographic that I have yet to win over.”

Well consider them won over.

*Joss has the best line about people calling NPH “Doogie.” When he said that Doogie has a name and it’s “Barney.” That just kills me. Always quick with a joke that Joss Whedon character. [via]

Well maybe you should just stick with your deodorant of choice.  And yes, we’re turning into the NPH superduperfanclub around here.  But c’mon!  I don’t think we’re alone.

Anyway, NPH shot an Old Spice commercial goofing on his turn as Doogie Howser.  Hilarity ensures.  Well a mild case of hilarity.  So a chuckle?

For those few readers that stick it out around here day to day, you probably have an inkling about my anticipation for anything and everything Joss Whedon. And when you throw in Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion into the mix for a superhero musical, well, my anticipation gasket just about blew.

We finally have a trailer for Joss’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog. If you remember, “It’s the story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to,” Whedon says.

The goggles on NPR are perfect and as someone who has been to one of those Buffy “Once More With Feeling” sing-along musical episodes held at a theater (yes, dear internet you’ve taken my last shred of dignity), I can attest that Joss knows his musicals.

Look for this to hit the internet sometime this summer, broken up into three ten-minute chapters.

Uber geek Joss Whedon has given us another reason to want to bear hug him, as if giving us Buffy, Angel, and Firefly weren’t enough.

Seems that during an interview with AICN, Neil Patrick Harris (Is his resurgence one of the better things in life and proof God may actually exist?  It’s like he’s become the Roy Hobbs of Hollywood: a young promising start, fading away to obscurity and then getting one last chance in the big leagues.  We fully expect for him to figuratively shatter the field lights sometime soon.) revealed he was shooting a superhero musical titled Dr. Horrible’s Sing-A-Long Blog.

Joss then chimed in at his website Whedonesque:

“The bag is catless. During the strike I started writing a musical intended as a limited internet series, 3 episodes of approximately 10 minutes each.”

The interest spread and shooting began this week with NPH as Dr. Horrible, Nathan Fillion as Captain Hammer and Felicia Day as Penny. Day starred in Season 7 of Buffy as the young slayer Vi. So what’s it about yo?

“It’s the story of a low-rent super-villain, the hero who keeps beating him up, and the cute girl from the laundromat he’s too shy to talk to.”

Sounds perfectly geeky. Though it woulda been nice to get Alyson Hannigan, because the FCC says it’s okay for her to get naked, we’ll settle for Day. By the by, I miss being able to go to Coolidge Corner to watch the Buffy musical episode sing-a-long. They should get that going in Stumptown.  Also, if this is as good as it sounds, then yes, we’ll concede that NPH just hit one so freaking far that lightening struck as he rounds the bases and glass rains down from the light poles.

The real question friends, is What Would Neil Patrick Harris do?

We’re obsessed around these parts with the sitcom How I Met Your Mother on CBS, and believe me, it’s due entirely to Neil Patrick Harris’s character Barney. It’s interesting how NPH’s career has been resurrected, like a one-hit wonder band that somehow manages to craft a complex mind-shattering concept album.

After his short cameo in the first Harold & Kumor Go to White Castle, playing a drugged-up sex-crazed version of himself, he landed the sitcom role of Barney and there’s been no going back. Even his announcement of being gay (one wonders how this will play out in Harold & Kumar 2 since in the orignal he was craving women) can’t stop him.

And now finally, he’s integral to the marketing of the sequel. He was briefly featured in the teaser trailer and can now be seen riding a unicorn in this new one-sheet.