our next guest is the star of a very popular new comedy series on abc entitled doogie hauser md
ladies and gentlemen here he is the one the only dr houser himself neil patrick harris
is that the theme song to your show that's the kind of the sound of his show anyway the sound is
it it's not really the theme oh well it's just the sound we appreciate that nice to meet you how you
doing i'm great now how old a guy are you actually i'm 16. you are actually 16. now is this your
first acting job uh my first television series first television job so you've been a a veteran
performer than you are i guess no i've only been i've only been performing uh professionally for
about two years what was your first one uh i was in clara's heart and how do you go from being like
a 14 year old kid to going into a major motion pictures it was it was kind of wacky um i i uh
will be the judge of that i went to a drama camp in las cruces i live in new mexico new
mexico it's a beautiful state isn't it wonderful you know it's the land of enchantment that's right
it is enchanting beautiful too um i went to a drama camp and and through uh mark medoff was
in charge of it and he was writing claire's right he wrote children with lesser god oh i see so so
you're there as a uh learning and studying and the guy casts you right out of the no he he uh
he got me and yeah he got me to try out for this thing and then i got an agent and she got me was
this like unbelievable to you like a dream come true and your folks were they happy oh yeah it was
great that's insane uh do you have uh siblings i have an older brother brian he's 19. and how does
he take to your fame and accomplishments and so forth he loves it we're good we're good pals he's
going to college and uh uh we're great friends yeah so now you're you're off doing uh the doogie
hauser deal and tell me what this is you're 16 but you're also a surgeon 16. he's he's a genius
he's a child prodigy he's 16. he uh graduated uh from stanford medical school at uh 10. right
well you know in a certain way uh to the extreme this
almost parallels your accomplishments for a very young man well thank you dave no certainly
but but i don't it's it's not legal for a 16 year old to be operating on people no it is no
it is yeah there's no there's no it there's no law against there is a law now you can't
have teenagers doing surgery well they have to go through through medical school and no no no
no no doesn't make any difference in some places you can't even drive at 16. no you can't drive
oh you can't drive it too maybe that's what i was thinking of uh now do you do you learn about the
medical procedures on your show uh yeah there's a there's a technical advisor there and she shows
us what to do and do you find it fascinating or is this something that you would never think to
yourself geez maybe i could be a doctor i i've never had uh much like blood yeah or uh or shots
which are two biggies yeah but but but it is fun doing the stuff we do you actually give shots on
the show no you don't well the needle goes into the shot i don't exactly give them no no i mean
but because they could arrest you if they find out you're actually on the set given shots that's true
i gave open-heart surgery though yeah uh and and then people have really responded well to the show
yeah it's done pretty well yeah uh and do you live now in los angeles your family and everybody
we have an apartment here but we're living in new mexico during hiatus yeah and which of the
two do you prefer probably i'm going to guess here well you tell me new mexico yeah new mexico it's
a beautiful place do you have you adjusted well to living in los angeles um um it's okay it's kind of
busy and uh you know your way around all right can be a little confusing i know what you're getting
at dave um yes yeah i went to no i no no no i went to uh could you could you give me a shop tonight
do you want a shot right here at the base of the skull do you just load something up and inject me
right there so all right you're in los angeles now and you're having any trouble finding your
way around is that where we live that's it yeah uh i was on a date and i was gonna go
see david copperfield magician yeah where was he performing he was at the pantages theater right
hollywood boulevard that's right yeah but i didn't know that i was i thought that it was the wilshire
theater yeah so uh i drove to the wilshire theater and i didn't know where the pantages was right
so i drove to a gas station and they uh the phone was broken and then i drove to another gas station
it's maddening and the nunkhead wouldn't give me a quarter a nunkhead is that with a k or an n
okay and then uh then i went to another and i went they wouldn't give me a course i went to
another one and they finally had a quarter and they didn't have a phone book so i find i went
to like i call information what is your date doing during all of this just kind of yeah
so uh you had given her a shot hadn't you he's dozing full of sodium pentathol you're talking
to a nunkhead so uh so we finally got there and saw his last two tricks i ended up having
to call my parents and find out oh man that's a that's it can be a little humiliating yeah yeah
uh and this is a race there were two good tricks what were the tricks he made sandwiches right
uh hear about that no i don't think people know about that a couple of weeks ago he hit his head
and he blacked out and he went on stage and forgot his act and just made sandwiches for 45 minutes
he's okay now though now is this is this your regular girlfriend that you had the date with
that night do you have a regular girl no no that was just a date no well i i am seeing
people some yeah but see it's it's insane you're you're 16 and you're seeing people i mean
yeah well i'm dating i'm not no i know but i mean if you were 16 and in new mexico would this be an
issue in your life at this point well yeah the the people i'm seeing are in new mexico oh oh i see i
see i see uh and and do you find i guess you had to quit school right no i have a tutor you have a
tutor or not but does that work yeah yeah we i uh i go three hours a day and we have to go in
uh minimum sessions or 20 minutes and so i film and then do school and film and do school and
and at one point you will receive the equivalent of a high school diploma yes sir you will receive
my high school and then will you you want to go on to college i would guess yeah i want
to go here actually maybe nyu yeah and and continue your acting as well all right you
want to go out in the hallway in bowl sure are you a pretty good bowler i can bought a
bowl one what do they have set up out there it's a stack of matzah all right here we go
nice to see you there you go i may not be back this is uh this is mike albee right
here he was what year were you a pba bowler of the year uh 85 and 89. okay here you go do you
bowl much oh look how nicely they've stacked it down there all right anton
all right yeah anytime wow oh man
all right go ahead mike you you wanna all right oh this feels better all right
look out quick run okay here we go
all of these all right mike i'll tell you what can you pick it up or we got a ball no we have
time to do this that's all right well there we go did you get a chance to rent the shoes here we go
you