From Doogie to Debonair

Emmy Awards host Neil Patrick Harris
New Line Cinema/ Everett

Trippy
The true beginning to Harris' comeback came in 2004, when he appeared as an outlandish, fictionalized version of himself in the stoner flick Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and its sequel Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantánamo Bay, above.

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