Last night marked the series premiere of Best Time Ever with Neil Patrick Harris, a new variety series on NBC based on the UK's Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway. As fans of How I Met Your Mother and various awards shows know, NPH is a force to be reckoned with, but Best Time Ever had the potential to be really good or really bad. Thankfully, the first episode wasn't a complete travesty, but there were definitely awkward moments throughout -- which is to be expected on a show that's "so live, you guys, you don't even realize!"
Not unlike Saturday Night Takeaway, Best Time Ever features a special guest announcer each week. For the premiere episode, Reese Witherspoon lent her bubbly voice to the proceedings, which also included appearances from Gloria Gaynor, Carson Daly and Carrot Top -- plus, former Pussycat Doll and Harris's lovely assistant Nicole Scherzinger. Suffice to say, these cameos spiced things up a bit, but for the most part it was up to Harris to carry the show, and carry it he did, albeit with obviously scripted banter and one-liners.
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Not unlike Saturday Night Takeaway, Best Time Ever features a special guest announcer each week. For the premiere episode, Reese Witherspoon lent her bubbly voice to the proceedings, which also included appearances from Gloria Gaynor, Carson Daly and Carrot Top -- plus, former Pussycat Doll and Harris's lovely assistant Nicole Scherzinger. Suffice to say, these cameos spiced things up a bit, but for the most part it was up to Harris to carry the show, and carry it he did, albeit with obviously scripted banter and one-liners.
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