Actor extraordinaire Neil Patrick Harris could have been the next king of late night, but he declined the offer.

In a recent interview with Howard Stern, the "Hedwig and the Angry Inch " Broadway star broke down how he was offered the chance to be David Letterman's successor on the "Late Show."

Harris explained how CBS CEO Les Moonves called him to set up a meet in his office regarding the show, and when Harris arrived, he was offered sushi.

"We had sushi brought in," he said. "It was fantastic. It was delicious. I loved it."

So why exactly did Neil Patrick Harris decline the opportunity to be the newest face of late night?

Well, we all know that Neil is a jack-of-all-trades, multi-talented and loves to keep busy. Since his rise to stardom, he has had much success with CBS hit sitcom, "How I Met Your Mother," he's starred in multiple hit movies, including "The Smurfs" and "Harold & Kumar," he's hosted the Tony awards four times already and even has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

And that's just a mere glimpse of his success. Entertainment Weekly commented that one could call already describe the 40-year-old performer as "legendary."

So it's understandable why the multi-faceted Neil Patrick Harris turned down late night.

He'd rather increase his opportunities than putting all of his eggs in one basket, so to speak.

"I told him the things that concerned me: about the longevity of that kind of gig, that I think I would get bored of the repetition fast and the structure of it is so set," Harris said. "I don't have any interest in doing monologue, commercial, sketch, guest, guest, musical act, good night."

Fair enough.

Instead of doing a nightly show, Harris admitted that he would be interested in doing a weekly variety show on CBS.

"I think, if it's weekly and people really want to see it and you trust that there's a lot of really great s**t on there, then you're going to get the guests to want to come on to your thing," he said.

"[With] a weekly thing, you'd have more time to prep for stuff. You could do pretaped stuff that would be really exciting. You could flesh it out a little bit more, have more acts and not just do nightly."

David Letterman's official successor will be Stephen Colbert. Now that Harris has spilled the beans on his offer, which host would you have preferred on the "Late Show?" Neil or Stephen?

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