Neil Patrick Harris is not only about to host the 87th annual Academy Awards, but the actor and comedian also stars once again in ads for the traditional clothing label London Fog, the Daily Mail reported.

In the American company's spring ad campaign, a "debonair" Harris "did his best Gene Kelly impression," the British newspaper judged. In one shot, he poses in a monochromatic gray suit and tie while toying with a patterned umbrella; in another, a suit-wearing Harris sits on a leather chair with a herringbone jacket draped over his shoulders.

The photos mark the second time the 41-year-old has worked with London Fog, but this time he has gone solo: Last year, the Daily Mail recalled, the "How I Met Your Mother" star posed together with his husband, 39-year-old David Burtka. The couple, who married in 2014, has two children, fraternal twins Harper and Gideon, the paper added.

In September, the two men had joked about Harris's upcoming projects in a behind-the-scenes video they shot for the label.

"I am doing a little Oscar thing," Harris had noted. "The Oscars are at the end of February, so I will probably be in rehab in the Spring from exhaustion."

"You should probably go now," Burtka had interjected.

On Wednesday, Harris sat down with last year's Oscar host, Ellen DeGeneres, and admitted the talk show host's was a tough act to follow, Us Magazine revealed.

"We're right in the thick of it," Harris told DeGeneres of prepping for the Feb. 22 show. "They started loading in the theater, they're doing all this stuff now there, at the theater, and my team of writers are thinking about jokes. And it's a tricky process with the content as you well know. I should really ask you: What was it like for you a week, six, five days out?"

DeGeneres, who had a big Oscar moment last year when she took a star-studded selfie during the ceremony, answered with some advice for her successor, according to the magazine.

"You write as much as you possibly can," she noted. "And up until that day you're changing jokes and timing it in rehearsal. And really until that day, I mean I was changing things an hour before it started."

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