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Kal "Kumar" Penn Leaving White House, Returning to Hollywood

040210kalpenn.jpg Actor Kal Penn, best known for his role as Kumar in the "Harold & Kumar" stoner movie franchise, is abandoning his post as Associate Director of Public Engagement of this great nation and heading back to the entertainment business. The reason? A very Harold & Kumar Christmas! Penn, a Jersey native, left showbiz in 2008 to campaign for Barack Obama, but is leaving the administration to begin filming the new Christmas-themed movie in June. According to EW, the film should be released in 2011, and the studio is contemplating shooting the film in 3-D. But shouldn't all those delicious burgers be in Smell-O-Vision?

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  • Spirit of 76

    Sorry, but while the first movie was very good, the second one was awful. I can't even remember a minute of it. Not looking forward to a third outing.

  • robingee

    Good to see Kal getting back to the Important Work.

    (I like him, I'm just bustin)

  • Polemicist

    Ah yes. We generously fight to create this nation and let in people like Kumar whose people still live in the stone age, in a large part because their intelligent elite is completely immoral and inclined to exploitation. Kumar then makes his life's work to campaign against us politically and produce films that degrade our culture and traditions.

    Does anyone really think this campaign against Western Civilization really can continue much longer? Propaganda has power, and in time - a great fury will come forth against those who have abused that power.

  • Amanda Harletsch

    "whose people still live in the stone age, in a large part because their intelligent elite is completely immoral and inclined to exploitation. "

    Are you talking about republicans?!

    Advocating for cultural regression and ignoring all ideological, economical and political system shifts since the XVIII century does not make you an evolved individual!

    Go and shoot something in the name of the divine status quo, you paleolithic teabagger.

  • Amanda Harletsch

    Neil, he's the man!

    He does keep the "us" traditions!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiRd4nq8RfY

  • Spirit of 76

    "Kumar then makes his life's work to campaign against us politically and produce films that degrade our culture and traditions."

    Sooo, you're saying you don't agree that White Castle is worth a late night munchies run? Not to mention hot South American babes. Why, you're un-American!

  • Dude69

    "Kumar then makes his life's work to campaign against us politically and produce films that degrade our culture and traditions."

    Please do some research before you begin typing. Kumar is the character's name in the movie, Kal Penn is an actor, and actors are usually not the also producers of the movies (unless they are A-listers). Producers are usually white and Western cultured rich folks. How exactly does Harold and Kumar degrade Western culture anyway, did you even see the movie before you comment?

    Your comment is an embarrassment.

  • robingee

    But what about Harold, Polemicist? What. About. HAROLD???

  • Spirit of 76

    Come on, don't you know that John Cho is actually a commie, pinko North Korean spy?

  • Guest

    hahahahahaha

  • haha, what? his name isn't even kumar. that's a character in a movie, a movie that is as american as American Pie.

  • Guest

    1) He was born in New Jersey. 2) Immorality and inclination to explotation is a part of all intelligent elites, no matter their nationality. 3) "Our" culture could not be less degraded than it is by the media each and every day. 4) We "generously fought" to create this nation by destroying those Columbus dubbed Indians, so you're whole argument is now null and void, since Kal Penn comes from true Indians.

  • hotstepper

    hey Joe the Plumber, what the hell are you blathering about? did you fight in the Revolutionary War?

  • Stevennnn

    What does the Associate Director of Public Engagement do anyway?

  • Papercutninja

    Engage the public. At an assistant director level.

  • hotstepper

    rides a cheetah and humps a massive bag of weed.

  • Guest

    and snorts cocaine off a hooker's ass

  • hotstepper

    no no no, that was Neil Patrick Harris...the mothafuckin MAN!

  • Guest

    Oh yeah! He is the man!

  • hotstepper

    weirdest white house appointment ever.

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