Neil talks to Bob Kushell about Whoopi Goldberg and the State bird of New Mexico, amongst other things, in this short interview.

Neil and David will both be attending this year’s Ojai Playwright’s Conference. They’re down to perform alongside Dick Van Dyke, Zachary Quinto, Noah Wyle and more on Saturday, January 31st at 5.30pm. For tickets and more info (tickets to the reading are $65) visit OjaiPlays.org.

And for any of you who pre-ordered Dr Horrible from Amazon.ca but had your order cancelled last week, it’s now back up on the site, with release expected for January 13th.

These have now been posted at the official Dr Horrible site.

If you missed it the first time around, the World Magic Awards, hosted by Neil, airs again tonight at 8pm.

Speaking at Spike TV’s Video Game Awards, Neil talks about his fear of “scary” video games. He’s second to be interviewed, about 13 seconds in to the clip.

Collider.com also spoke to Neil at the event. Neil discusses Harold and Kumar, his desire to be in Jason Segel’s Muppet movie and the continued success of HIMYM.

Finally, Neil has placed 4th in USA Today’s Pop Candy Top 100 People of 2008.

AfterElton reports that when Saturday Night Live returns for 2009, Neil will be the host for the night. You can catch the show on Saturday, January 10th, at 11.30/10.30c on NBC.

EW.com have got a great gallery of the Best of 2008 where the cast of HIMYM re-enact some of the best moments of this year, including the Olympics and the presidential election. And it’s your chance to see what Neil looks like as Indiana Jones and one of the Jonas Brothers! And if you don’t fancy visiting EW, we have the Neil pictures up in our gallery here.

Zap2it have included Barney & Robin in their biggest moments of 2008 countdown - go here to watch the clip and see Neil, Cobie and Aly talk about the pairing. Oh, and Neil’s being interviewed wearing “that” Santa outfit from the TV Guide shoot.

Pick up the new issue of TV Guide for a HIMYM interview, and to see Neil dressed as Santa with Cobie and Aly as his naughty elves. We’ll have our own scans in the gallery ASAP but for now, SpoilerTV has their own up that you can check out!

Many thanks to Mike from MahaloDaily.com for letting us know about this one - they interviewed a whole host of people on the red carpet, including Neil (his favourite game is Rockband, and his favourite song to play is Rock & Roll All Night by Kiss). Becky “Aktrez” Young of the Girls Entertainment Network also caught up with him, chatting about what game he would turn into a musical, and talking about his character and the plot for the new game Eat Lead. MaximoTV also spoke to him very briefly, here.

Thanks once again to the people at church_of_nph, we have some video clips to link you to! Firstly there’s a couple of short red carpet interview clips - in this one he talks about wishing he had more time to play video games (”I have a Wii, I bought the Wii Fitness on ebay, I won it - still in the box”) and in this one he’s asked about what kinds of games he likes (”I like the Wii, because I can act like I’m throwing a dart and it happens”). Also, Spike TV themselves have uploaded some highlights of the show, including Neil’s “bit” when he presents his award. Sadly it doesn’t include the actual presenting of the award but we’ll let you know if we find it!

Finally, if you saw last night’s HIMYM, check out Barney’s blog this week to read his Christmas list and letter to Santa.

Just a quick update for now - at the Spike TV VGAs last night, Neil was interviewed by fearnet.com about Dr Horrible, the DVD release (it’s going to be “awesome-town”, and he reveals that his solo on “Commentary!” is called “Neil’s Turn”).

We’re had a massive gallery update over the weekend, with lots of pics from Neil at various events over the years - the Opening Night Gypsy Robe Ceremony for Assassins, the American Theatre Wing Luncheon Honoring Isabelle Stevenson, and the Afterparty for the closing night performance of “Proof” just to name a few. And this morning we’ve added a whole bunch of photos from both the arrivals and onstage at last night’s Spike TV Video Games Awards, where Neil presented World of Goo game designer Ron Carmel with the award for Best Independent Game.

Also check out Primotech’s Awards in Pictures page, where they note that somebody forgot to tell Neil the winner of his category and he “looked around sheepishly for a cue”. I’m hoping to get a clip up if I can, but for now enjoy the pictures!

On a different note, the Dr Horrible crew posted on Twitter a few hours ago that the DVD should be available to order on Amazon.ca soon. No word on if other international variations of the site are to follow, but we’ll keep you posted!