Not quite live from beautiful downtown Culver City, watch as the ubiquitous NPH — who’ll be hosting the Emmys on Sunday night — shows us the craft of being a highly trained voice thespian. In this extremely serious promotional clip for “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” he explores the various meanings, shades, contexts, and subtexts of “Steve” and “poop.”

H/t Whedonesque.