Neil Patrick Harris in his underwear was a ballsy Oscars move

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Neha Prakash
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It takes a lot of balls to be Neil Patrick Harris.

During Sunday's Academy Awards, host NPH basically lived your worst nightmare by appearing on stage, in front of Hollywood royalty, in his very revealing tighty-whities.

Harris was recreating the underwear scene from Birdman -- with a quick nod to Whiplash -- but the Internet was a little distracted to notice the parody part of the sketch.

It also seems Tina Fey and Amy Poehler finally got their wish from the 2013 Emmys.

But really, after Gone Girl, this is modest for NPH.

Yeah he just did that #oscars A photo posted by The Academy (@theacademy) on Feb 22, 2015 at 6:44pm PST

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