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Why is Neil Patrick Harris in his underwear?

Neil Patrick Harris has clearly been hitting the gym since ending his run as a gaunt transgender punk rock singer in Broadway’s Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

On Sunday night’s Academy Awards, this year’s host stripped down to his underwear and displayed an impressively muscular physique.

So what was he doing in his skivvies?

Harris re-enacted one of the more memorable scenes from Best Picture nominee Birdman in which Michael Keaton’s actor character gets locked out of a theater mid-play and must walk through New York’s Times Square in his underwear to re-enter.

Harris walked from his dressing room to the stage in white briefs and before returning to the stage encounters Whiplash star Miles Teller on the drums and scowled he was playing the wrong tempo.

He then took to the stage of the Dolby Theatre and, with what dignity remained, introduced presenters Teller and Margot Robbie.

When Harris re-emerged later in a tuxedo he cracked: ‘After my last entrance, I am now a changed man.’

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  1. Brilliant opening! Greg, you should also post the Spirt Awards’ opening sequence of Fred Armisen and Kristen Bell’s ingenious spoof of Birdman. Hilarious!

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