Neil Patrick Harris one of EW's Entertainers of the Year...

Entertainment Weekly magazine put Robert Downey Jr. at the top of its 25 Entertainers of the Year list. It's a good list, certainly better than Barbara Walters completely ridiculous top 10 most intriguing people of the year special (Tom Cruise, again? WHY?). I'm glad to see the "Sex and the City" ladies represented (no. 8) the great Meryl Streep (no. 11), the dapper Jon Hamm (no. 19) and the talented Richard Jenkins (no. 22). But what really made me happiest was the name next to No. 25: Neil Patrick Harris.

Here's an excerpt of what the magazine wrote about NPH's magical year:

He made an old-school star turn as the titular mad scientist in Joss Whedon's wildly siccessful online musical "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog." He continued to mine the self-parody gold of "Neil Patrick Harris" in the "Harold and Kumar" franchise. He brought compelling new depth to his role as Barney on CBS' "How I Met Your Mother" without losing an ounch of womanizing ooze. And if you laughed at all during this year's black hole of an Emmy broadcast, it was probably due to his bone-dry aside about "Howie Mandel's prattling."

While Harris is humble about his current critical mass - "It timed itself out very well, and I had very little do with that" he insists - he'll simply have to accept some of the credit.

"I just hope I'm not going to open up the magazine next week and see the little arrow sticking through me three pages after the Bullseye saying 'NPH, enough already!'"

Not a chance.

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The photo of NPH and co-star Jason Segel has nothing to do with his entertainer of the year honor except that when looking for art to post with this, I came across this same-sex smooch scene. It was amusing and a tiny bit hot.