Neil Patrick Harris doesn’t plan to tells jokes at people’s expense while hosting 2015 Academy Awards

It sounds like he plans to be the anti-Ricky Gervais.

Unlike Gervais’ celebrity-roasting three year reign of terror hosting the Golden Globe Awards, Neil Patrick Harris said during a Twitter Q&A today that he is planning to have a more celebratory tone when he hosts the Academy Awards next year.

‘I really want to have my own take on it and I’m not quite sure what that means yet but I don’t want to just come out and do the typical tell jokes at other people’s expense.

‘Like talk about this movie and get tepid applause and make fun of the stars of it.’

So he won’t be emulating Bob Hope either.

‘I love movies and I love sincerely that people from different walks of life, ages and socioeconomic backgrounds, locations and head spaces can all go and see the same thing that’s been done and cared about for like a year and have a moving experience.

‘I think it’s great that the Oscars celebrate that.’