Ripa must be an aquired taste. She always seems to be filling in for the "real" host, never seems to know any specifics, and makes Kathy Lee seem like Barbara Walters. Watching Neil Patrick Harris fake those laughs in response to her strained attempt to promote a film her husband made (and no one saw) is especially painful.
By the way: One could sense a BROKEBACK styled joke coming ... the men thrown together in the pup tent/fox hole thing ... but with the gay Harris present, too many echoes of Clay Akin were hovering, and they jumped past that quickly.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling