Working at the White House is such a drag right now, for all the hip young people, because everything is terrible and there is no Hope, Change, etc. That guy from the White Castle movies has decided (again) that he would rather be on CBS than get paid $41,000 a year to be depressed, because obviously.
Kal Penn is saying goodbye to the White House once again. This time, the actor will give up his gig in the Obama administration for a role on the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother.”
Will the White House door keep revolving for Penn? That’s not clear, but he’ll leave this month with his co-workers’ best wishes. White House spokesman Shin Inouye said Thursday, “We deeply appreciate his service and wish him the best in his future endeavors.”
[Politico]
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As Kumar already has escaped from Guantanamo, the White House cannot hold him.
That was the stupidest movie ever to have such a great title.
I see your Guantanamo movie and raise you Snakes on a Plane.
Sam Jackson. Simple idea. Great title. Totally fucked it up.
Don't Be a Menace to South Central Whilst Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, anyone?
Super-soakers & bunny-slippers FTW.
I smell a hallucination cameo ratings booster for House!
See, he never should've killed himself off from House MD.
Wrong. Soon after, House
humped the sharkfucked Cuddy.Disagree. Kutner was smart to kill himself. It's like he saw what the show was about to turn into.
He's quit more times than Sarah Palin.
Brown Libel!
Makes a lot of sense…u smoke weed, too?
Do you see it…growing on the horizon? It comes for democrats like Kortney just to my right.
Coming soon: Harold and Kumar Go To Wassilla?
Please – no suggestions of three-ways with any of the Palins.
Already been done, as portrayed in the documentary "Who's Nailin' Paylin."
I thought Letterman was nailin Palin.
I could handle a porn with Todd & Track
"Harold and Kumar Go To Wassilla?"
Whaaa?
They given up weed and are looking for some crystal meth?
The White House DOES look like a big white castle. He was simply escaping.
There are people at my house who would get a real lift from being paid $41,000/year to be depressed.
Yeah — millions of Americans are doing it for free.
wow, what's next? biden takes that greeter job at walmart he has been thinking about? then again, in wilmington, the greeters face inward, if you know what I mean.
nah,,, Biden will either open an Auto detailing shop or be an Amtrak tour guide
Aw, I can picture the Joester being real excited about being an Amtrak tour guide with his engineer's hat and all. And passengers hurtling through the windows, too. I like Joe.
Hell, I didn't know he was BACK in the White House.
Does anyone even watch that stupid-ass show?
What show is that?
Exactly.
Friends II
And what exactly did Kumar do for the White House as "an associate director in the Office of Public Engagement"? Provide stoner cachet? Was he hired because they needed a south asian and Sanjay Gupta laughed along with the rest of us at his being named Surgeon General? Maybe he was a debt ceiling negotiator?
Obama got his lulz by sending Kumar to negotiate with House Repukes. (No wonder he was depressed.)
I heard Kumar wanted a leave of absence to film "Wrath of Khan 2: Electric Boogaloo" and Obama was all like, "nah, man, that's too racist against the muslims," and Kumar was all like, "why you always up in my grill, man?" and then he left the room in a huff, saying "I'm taking it to the streets, yo." And that's what happened.
ah so good. wish i could give you more 'p's'
Thank you!
You make it sound like he was an understudy for Eric Cantor.
Or Obama, according to Eric Cantor.
kalpenn . . . shininouye . . .
WTF is this? A menu at some ethnic restaurant? Well, there better be anus burger in it, whatever it is . . .
At least now he has more time (and money) to go to White Castle.
There's probably a part available on "Two and a Half Men", if this one doesn't pan out.
It will take at least one Kutcher & one Penn* to win as much as Sheen.
*Jillette, sit you Libertard behind down. & don't even think of it, Badgeley!
Kal sera, sera;
whatever Inouye, will Inouye
“We deeply appreciate his service and wish him the best in his future endeavors.”
I've been in gubmint service for over 31 years now, and I'm pretty sure that that message translated into English is, "Fuck off and die, loser prick."
That was about what I got out of it, too.
i have to say, weird hollywood / DC mash up stories elict the best damn wonkette comments.
yea, cool, huh?!? What country is this again?
Unless they start with the ghosts or time travel cop-outs which, seriously, would not surprise me, he can't go back to House.
That makes sense…pothead, yes?
I tell you this, you can buy a shitload of Sliders for $41 thousand smackaroos. Speaking of Sliders, anyone remember the television series Sliders.
Yes, I'll tell anyone within earshot, this is how my mind works, this is how I roll. It's like a game of Atari Pong up in this cabeza.
Oh Sliders – what a fun show. For about two and a quarter seasons. And thank YOU David Peckinpah for being a complete hack and destroying the show.
Wow, you hung in there twice as long as I did. And the premise had infinite possibilities…!
I blamed Tracy Tormé for years. Unfairly, it seems.
Tracy Tormé? Wasn't he that singer, they one they called the Velvet Fog that had that show about a plane crash on some island, Lord of the Flies, I think, that just confused the hell out of a lot of viewers who stopped watching it and I've run out of stuff for this sentence?
Mel actually appeared on Sliders…
I think Tracy may have some brain damage from banging his head against the wall too much. Between network arbitrary dictates and producers who screwed up his creation, it must have become incredibly frustrating.
So sick of writing answers to letters telling Obama to grow a spine and tax the fuck out of the rich bastards destroying the country (job creators).
Top 1% pays 90% of taxes…those bastards.
Hopefully they'll throw him a bottomless goodbye party. Republicans, when they hear, will try to crash it.
Thank you, come again.
(Somebody had to say it)
Say what you will, but that no-talent hack has managed to keep working ever since he started on Nicklelodeon. It's not who you know, it's who you blow. Just ask Callista.
Flockhart?
Gross! Newt put his pee pee in that nice woman's MOUTH!
I've obviously been blowing the wrong people. Although your explanation does explain how Marcus Bachmann got that government pray-away-he-gay gig.
Kal who?
-El, Nic Cage's kid?
Nick Who?
Nick L. Odeon.
I deserved that.
He's leaving again? I didn't even know he was back.
You know who else left the White House twice?
Grover Cleveland?
Mallard Fillmore?
They all leaving after elections. Suggest de-grease.
And now it's off to Bolivia to foment a revolucíon. ¡Suerte, compañero!
find your bella!
Obama's Mom has some really … nude … pix on the web….destined for glory…so does my cat.
way to show up late for the trolling, troll.
What a moran…
Doesn't he have any friends he can hang out with? Never mind.
He's a) not funny, b) not smart, c) not interesting.
Men In Black 3 needs a Tony Shaloub-type character. It's just a rumor, though.
It's hard to conceive of a film that doesn't need a Tony Shaloub-type character.
Kal is just waiting for Bobby Jindal to do something noteworthy, so he can play him on the big screen. Or does Jack McBrayer have that already locked up?
Recurring on a popular sitcom pays a shitload more than $41K. I call affirmative action hire, plus socializms.
Lady GaGa and the cast of Glee are going to replace him. They appeal to the same ignorant base that voted for Obama.
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