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Neil Patrick Harris Dreams of Doing Dirty Things with Puppets in These New Videos

This is what NPH has been doing between directing a magic show in LA, prepping for his role in Roundabout’s Assassins benefit concert, and being a legen…wait for it…dary dad.

Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris

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Modern Renaissance Man Neil Patrick Harris’ new Nerdist Channel web series Neil’s Puppet Dreams is a co-production with the Jim Henson Company that blends dirty jokes, puppetry (obviously), and even guest appearances from the likes of Nathan Fillion (Castle, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog).

The premise is that NPH has a disease known as Neil’s Puppet Dreams, which combines narcolepsy and dreaming “almost exclusively in puppet.”

So far, it seems like the highlights of the show will be Neil’s frequently-featured bare chest, quite a bit of face-time for his hunky husband David Burtka (Gypsy), and a lot of puppets doing and saying some really filthy things.

A behind the scenes look:

The first episode: