Actor Neil Patrick Harris was fired up – literally – as he hosted the TV Land Awards in Los Angeles.

Things heated up for the How I Met Your Mother star after performing a hilarious spoof of famous shows including an impersonation of Baywatch beauty Pam Anderson, himself on Doogie Howser MD and a take-off of reality show Survivor.

Harris caught fire in rehearsals doing the Survivor skit when a smoke pack ignited his tuxedo, according to sources on the set.

Fortunately the star wasn’t seriously injured.

“He just had some welts on his back,” according to a mole.

“He didn’t have to be taken to a hospital or anything like that.”

The pre-taped show, which aired last night in the US, honoured TV shows and stars including Knots Landing, M*A*S*H, Married With Children, Home Improvement, Two And A Half Men, Magnum, PI, ER, Don Rickles and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.