Neil Patrick Harris earns his "Rent" on SNL

I really liked Kristen Wiig's Kathy Lee Gifford, Wiig is hilarious. NPH really shows his versatility as a comedic actor. He was able to play all his roles just as well as any SNL cast member, if not better.

I thought Neil was great, and overall the show was good.  I liked the Fran & Freba sketch the best, plus everything Kristen Wiig did because she's always hilarious.  I hated the Rachel Maddow sketch.  If you're interested in what the lesbians are saying about it, there's much discussion about it here http://www.afterellen.com/blog/sarahwarn/snl-spoofs-rachel-maddow-show-09 ,btw.  Anyway, I hope they ask Neil back to host regularly.  He was definitely one of the best hosts they've had in recent years.  He's awesome. 

I cant believe I missed this. Thanks for posting these vids of it. :)

 I think this is one of the funnier SNLs, this whole year has been pretty good actually. Neil deffinatly needs to come back.

 My favorite part was the air traffic controller scene, and in the Today show scene when Wiig is punched.

 About the opening scene, it was kinda of stale and yeah they said a word that perhaps they shouldnt have. But it was used in a comic way I guess, idk, lets avoid the whole word usage debate.

Was anyone else really turned on by Neil's dance as the fitness guru in the last skit?

NPH is Made of The Awesome!

when an openly gay host is around, the ugly gay baiting, homophobic jokes take a break for one week. How convenient.

While I thought this Digital Short was funny, it probably would've been funnier if they hadn't just done an in-joke with Barney's blog -- set to the theme song from Doogie Howser -- just within the last two weeks on How I Met Your Mother.

But it still will be going on my iPod.  After meeting NPH this past summer, he went from likable to downright charming. 

...no one's mentioned the Save Broadway sketch in the comments yet. Not only was the content more gay-themed than the other sketches (besides the drag bit, which [bad pun alert] dragged for me), but the jokes were very insidery. I'm sure most people in the middle of the country wouldn't have gotten most of that, which really impressed me. And it was the funniest overall sketch for me. Neil was great in all of them, but this is the only one that had pretty good writing, too. Though I wonder why they didn't have Liza appear in that one.

...was wasted on a silly joke that wasn't even particularly funny. Also, fortunately, the skit they put her in ended when it did; that character she's supposedly friends with is so incredibly annoying (which was the goal, I'm sure) that it's best taken in really small doses.

Overall, I agree with everyone here who has been singing NPH's praises. He made this one of SNL's strongest episodes in years. That's what comes from great acting skill, exquisite comic timing and tons of charm and charisma. And I presume he had some writing input this week as well. Too bad he couldn't also have been the musical guest. I don't think I'm the only one who feels Taylor Swift is completely over-rated. She may dominate the (country) charts but like Miley ("Hannah Montana") Cyrus (or Britney, for that matter), she CANNOT sing live.

Favourite NPH moments: the opening monologue (I could have done without the "hecklers" though), the exercise guru on the TODAY show, the Save Broadway sketch (not sure if many folks know that NPH's first major stage musical role WAS as Mark in the L.A. production of RENT), and the Doogie Howser symphony.