Neil Patrick Harris has been a complete joy this week co-hosting Live With Kelly with his pal Kelly Ripa.

It’s a pity NPH is still tied to the long-running sitcom How I Met Your Mother because I’d much rather see Neil every morning with Kelly than as Barney on HIMYM.

When a guy’s as talented as Neil, there are just tons of opportunities. In addition to his sitcom role, he had roles in the new Harold & Kumar flick, The Smurfs, The Muppets and Beastly and hosted this year’s Tony Awards.

This is something he talks about in a new interview with Details.

“Well, I’m having to say no to things, like a fun voiceover, that I would probably say yes to otherwise, because it involves an afternoon of driving to Santa Monica and recording. I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.”

The children are the twins he has with fiancee David Burtka. So will they be getting married anytime soon?

“It’s complicated,” he said. “David proposed to me five and a half years ago in New York on the same street corner where we met. The following year on Valentine’s Day in Santa Monica, one of my gifts was a ring and I proposed to him. Then, when the marriage-equality stuff was on the tipping point in New York, where we have residency because we have an apartment there, it seemed my responsibility to at least tweet about it—to say, “Please vote for marriage equality in New York, it would be nice to get married someday.” It passed, and then someone tweeted David asking if we were going to get married, to which David replied, “Yes, I proposed to Neil and he proposed to me.” Which I think sounded immediate and wasn’t. It’s exactly what we didn’t want to do, because we contemplated getting married in California, before the Prop 8 debacle, and I opted not to immediately because I didn’t want it to be a media event. I didn’t want to go marching down the street with camera crews. Oy. To get married? Really? It seems like you have an agenda when you do it that way. I wouldn’t want to get married to be an example. I’m hoping we’ll be able to get married in California soon, but there are no plans afoot.”

DETAILS: Is there anything you haven’t done yet that you’d like to explore?
Neil Patrick Harris: I’d like to direct more theater and direct a feature film. Or puppets. I want to do something with puppets.

DETAILS: Well, you are in the new Muppets movie.
Neil Patrick Harris: Yes. I deeply thank Jason Segel for that opportunity. The only fan letter I ever sent as a kid was to Jim Henson. I thought I was the biggest Muppets fan until I met Jason Segel.

DETAILS: There needs to be a Neil Patrick Harris variety show with Muppets and magic.
Neil Patrick Harris: I just got a boner.

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