Kal Penn

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard

Armchair Umbrella

Tv & Film, Music, Comedy

4.6 • 68.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2019

⏱️ 131 minutes

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Summary

Kal Penn (Harold and Kumar, The Namesake, House) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and former civil servant. Kal sits down with the Armchair Expert to discuss developing his stage name, not being able to please everyone and lying on his resume. Kal talks about his time working in the White House and Dax asks about balancing work and stereotypes. The two discover that they are the same person and they discuss the worth of a Big Mac. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome welcome to armchair expert. I am sitting across from a recently decorated
0:06.2	Monica Padman. Oh that could go so many ways like decorated with metals. Decorative metals.
0:11.6	Yeah. Yeah, but in fact it was decorative toenail polish.
0:15.0	That's right.
0:16.0	But I'm getting, I got a real premier view of them.
0:19.0	Oh yeah, that's right.
0:21.0	That's right.
0:22.0	They look fantastic. Now, I don't believe he had his nails done recently.
0:27.0	We don't know. We have Cal Penn today.
0:31.0	I got to tell you, Cal Penn, what an amazing story, Kalpin. You know, you probably know
0:36.0	him from Harold and Kumar, Van Wilder, House, designated survivor, but what's really
0:41.5	crazy and interesting about him is he left all that behind to go work in the White House in the office of public engagement during the Obama administration.
0:49.4	Yeah.
0:50.4	What a choice?
0:51.4	I know.
0:52.4	Gosh.
0:53.0	I'm so jealous of it.
0:54.0	He's a Renaissance man now.
0:56.0	Well, he really technically, he checks all the boxes for a Renaissance man.
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