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Okay, this is going to go under your arms around your chest.
0:00
Okay.
0:00
Is your stage name Kal Penn?
0:15
Yes, it is.
0:15
And you're known as Kumar from Harold and Kumar, among many other things.
0:21
Are you sick of being asked if you're high right now?
0:25
No.
0:25
Are you high right now?
0:25
No.
0:25
Is that true, Barry?
0:32
That's true.
0:32
Let's start by talking about your life.
0:41
You were born in New Jersey, is that right?
0:44
Correct.
0:44
But you went to college in California.
0:47
I did.
0:47
Are you trying to distance yourself from your family?
0:52
No.
0:52
So did you miss your family while you were in California?
1:00
I did.
1:01
I missed the whole East Coast, obviously, including the parents of the family.
1:04
You graduated from UCLA in 2000, correct?
1:08
Were you at all concerned for Y2K?
1:10
Uh, that's a good question.
1:10
I think we were all concerned.
1:26
That's an interesting one because you laugh about it now, at least I laugh about it now.
1:26
Yeah, I think we were concerned.
1:21
I'm not a big, like, fear guy, so I don't think I was terrified, but I think considerably your, the question was concerned, yes, I think we're concerned.
1:29
Did you buy any emergency rations?
1:31
I don't think so.
1:31
My recollection is that we had a flashlight and like a bottle of water just in case, which is a pretty weak just in case.
1:42
It's hard to remember because I'm usually so high.
1:47
Do you remember where you were at the night of New Year's Eve, 1999?
1:49
Yes, I do.
2:08
Did you do anything reckless that night?
1:58
I, I went to a New Year's Eve party at Honka Bunka in Sayreville.
2:18
What's that?
2:18
If you grew up here and listened to Top 40 radio in the tri-state area, you know what that is.
2:18
Did you play saxophone in your middle school band?
2:18
Yeah.
2:18
Were you any good?
2:18
What a subjective question, I like that.
2:18
I was fantastic by 13-year-old standards, and I was fine.
2:18
I wasn't in the honors band.
2:42
Do you still play?
2:46
I don't.
2:52
I still have a saxophone, but I have not played it in years.
2:52
Is it true that your mother was a fragrance evaluator?
2:52
Yes.
2:52
So do you always smell this good?
2:52
I would like to think that she was able to bring samples of cologne home from work often enough that I definitely was like the weird 15-year-old who sometimes had cologne on in high school.
3:00
What about now?
3:00
I do have cologne on now.
3:18
Expensive cologne?
3:18
It's not expensive cologne.
3:18
I have a Paco Rabanne and Fitch cologne on right now, and along with Axe body spray, I get lots of compliments for these two things.
3:11
And when I bragged to some friends about getting compliments from strangers about how good I smell, they were very quick to point out that that's probably because I reminded them of old sexual partners, but I'm still rocking those two and I still get compliments.
3:35
Do you think you smell better than Barry?
3:38
I did not get a chance to properly smell Barry, so there's a very little control group going into this avoidance, but that is, I will acknowledge that that's avoidance because he's at the controls.
3:51
You've taught film classes at UPenn, is that correct?
3:54
Yes.
3:54
You said on The Late Late Show that you're a very strict professor.
4:00
Early in my class, I was, so early in the semester, I was very strict and then I loosened up because I wanted to make sure that people were taking my class for the right reasons, meaning that they actually wanted to learn and that they did not get excited because Kumar was teaching a film class.
4:16
And the first day I outlined the class and talked about how it's impossible to get an A unless you do all the reading because 10% of the grade is pop quizzes in the classroom based on the reading for the week.
4:27
And so I think it was like 40 people dropped the class immediately.
4:32
Do you think you could have passed your own pop quizzes?
4:34
I could have passed the pop quizzes.
4:36
I could not have gotten an A in my own class.
4:38
Did anyone get an A?
4:42
Yeah, a lot of people did.
4:42
And then I failed two students.
4:42
They tried to pass off other people's papers on the road.
4:42
That was a whole plagiarism thing.
4:46
That's harsh, man.
4:49
Yeah.
4:54
Do you ever check your rating on ratemyprofessor.com?
4:51
No.
4:51
Do I have one?
4:54
I looked it up and you don't seem to have one.
4:57
Okay, thank you.
4:59
That's good.
4:59
Were you expecting a good rating?
5:02
I, I remember the course evaluations that came back and they were, they were mixed.
5:07
Did that hurt your feelings?
5:11
No, not really.
5:11
I think it was, you know, the, the class wasn't for everybody and also I'm not a truthful instructor, but I was terrified when he just asked me that question because I told me and I hope I don't have a rate my professor.
5:23
Let's move on to your career.
5:23
Would you say your breakout role was playing Taj in Van Wilder?
5:23
Probably, yes.
5:23
Well, yeah, probably.
5:23
Carlton, Kumar was definitely a bigger leap.
5:23
My first real credit on a, on a studio film was Van Wilder, definitely.
5:23
Did your parents watch the film?
5:23
Uh, yes.
5:23
It's a, you know, it's a, it's a late 90s, early 2000s party movie so the tone of it's not Shakespeare, but I remember bringing them the script, they read it and I remember my mom saying in a very shocked voice as she turned a page, oh my gosh, this is pornography.
5:23
I was like, oh no, here we go.
5:23
And then like we're talking about what is and isn't pornography, which was horrifying, but I was glad that we did it with the script so that they knew what to expect and more importantly knew not to call all of their friends proudly to say, you guys should all go see this movie with my son.
5:23
Do you think that was the first time you talked about pornography with your parents?
5:23
Oh, definitely.
5:23
Yeah, yeah.
5:23
I hope that checks out because I've got some memory issues.
5:23
What's this man, Ryan Reynolds, easy to work with?
6:38
What a handsome man.
6:43
Can we just show our friends who are watching 'cause their camera behind me or do I need to hold this up?
6:43
What a handsome man.
6:38
He was not only easy to work with, he was a lot of fun to work with.
6:43
I'm uh, did you see Deadpool?
6:46
I did see Deadpool.
6:55
Did you see Deadpool 2?
6:49
Is there a Deadpool 2?
6:58
I've been really busy, guys, so you know, those are a bit cool too.
6:58
Let's talk about the big one, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle.
7:00
Is it true you don't smoke weed?
7:03
Yes.
7:03
And you also don't eat meat?
7:08
Correct.
7:08
Is it safe to say you were acting disingenuously?
7:11
No.
7:11
Acting, as Meisner said, is living realistically under imaginary circumstances.
7:18
You didn't know.
7:21
I was as much of a, it's kind of what I loved about the movies is I'm not a stoner in real life and I try to eat healthy.
7:26
I say this having just eaten fast food before I walked in here, before you get to that question.
7:31
So I hate answering the question on the street like, hey, do you want to smoke a joint with me, which happens often, embarrassment of riches, stoners.
7:37
I used to be honest and say, sorry, I don't really smoke and they would be really devastated, not just disappointed but like they felt wronged.
7:47
So now I have stopped saying I don't really smoke weed and I've started just saying, I'd love to, but I've got a thing.
7:57
I got to run to a meeting or I got to run to a thing or like, how about a high five instead?
7:59
See, you don't want to smoke weed with me after this.
8:01
No, we can do that.
8:01
Are you and this man actually friends or is that a lie?
8:16
Oh, yes.
8:16
John Cho is a brother to me.
8:16
Also, look at how Twinkie I am.
8:16
Look at that.
8:16
What happened?
8:16
So yes, we were friends during the movie and we're still very good friends in real life.
8:16
You'd say he's a classy guy?
8:16
He's a super classy guy, yes.
8:16
So as a real friend, he still let you wear that Michele necklace?
8:27
Mm-hmm.
8:27
Yeah, he gave it to me.
8:30
He gave me the puka shell necklace.
8:34
Is that true?
8:34
Near the start of the new show Sunnyside, right?
8:34
I am.
8:34
The character you played, Garrett, his career is ruined by drug charges.
8:34
Yes.
8:34
Is this something you can relate to?
8:34
Garrett's life is more disrupted by alcohol charges.
8:47
So he gets pulled over for walking on the BQE here in New York for being drunk and then tries to bribe a cop.
8:57
In the original script of the pilot, he's also doing coke with some hookers, but that got cut because we're on NBC.
9:03
Bribery is perhaps the biggest thing, so thankfully I have not, to my knowledge, bribed anybody.
9:09
Have you ever been pulled over and used your celebrity status to get out of a ticket?
9:09
Yes, but it has not worked.
9:09
So I was riding with a friend who was speeding and we got pulled over and I didn't know if that kind of thing works or not, but then I was like, as he was writing the ticket and got his license and went back to the cop car, I was just like, well, at least like say hi, maybe he does like your movies that can, he can make the ticket go away.
9:40
So when the cop came back, I was like, let me thank the officer.
9:47
So I like leaning forward and I was like, thanks officer, sorry for the trouble and the cop was like, oh my gosh, I didn't know you were in the car.
9:49
You should have said something earlier.
9:50
I already put the ticket in the system, too bad.
9:54
Why don't we move on to the pop culture?
9:57
Is it true that your first agent was Barbara Cameron, the mother of these two child stars?
10:02
Yes.
10:02
My first agent was Barbara Cameron, mother of these awesome child stars.
10:16
Did you get to meet them?
10:16
I did, separately years later.
10:16
So I met Candace Cameron in Barbara Cameron's office once when I was four starting out and I met Kirk Cameron a couple years ago unlike some talk show that he was doing a different segment of.
10:16
Do you ever meet anyone else from the cast of Full House?
10:24
I don't think I've met anyone else from Full House.
10:26
John Stamos would be cool to me.
10:28
Lori Loughlin is in jail.
10:28
I hope the others are around, but I haven't had the privilege.
10:49
Yeah.
10:49
One day.
10:49
You've taught both film and politics courses at reputable universities, right?
10:49
I have.
10:49
Do you consider yourself a film buff?
10:49
I could consider myself a film buff.
10:49
That doesn't mean I am one.
10:49
I have huge holes in things that I've seen and then I watched like obscure random things that people don't think I watch.
10:49
So in your scholarly opinion, would you say Once Upon a Time was Tarantino's best movie?
11:03
Uh, no.
11:03
It's according to Reddit.
11:07
You met a couple backpacking in the Himalayas and invited them to join you in LA.
11:11
Partially true.
11:11
That the general sense of the story is true.
11:13
I was shooting a movie in the Himalayas a couple years ago and there was a couple that lives literally lives around the world and we all became friends and I said, come visit me, not just in LA.
11:22
I think it's, it's, it was Toronto that they visited me.
11:26
Did they follow it up?
11:28
Yeah, they followed up.
11:28
We're still in touch.
11:29
You ever seen the movie Taken?
11:29
Is that Liam Neeson?
11:31
Oh yeah, yeah, a long time ago.
11:35
Aren't there multiple Takens?
11:37
Yeah.
11:37
Okay, yeah, I think I've seen Taken.
11:40
In retrospect, was it wise to trust these strangers?
11:42
Okay.
11:42
Does it, did it worry me that I would get kidnapped?
11:44
I felt like there was enough of a vetting because we were in the Himalayas for almost six weeks.
11:49
I felt like my ability to vet them for creep factor was pretty strong, so it didn't cross my mind that they might kidnap me, but it does cross my mind generally that somebody might sometimes I worry about that too.
12:02
Yeah, like here, for example.
12:03
Yeah.
12:03
I don't know any of you.
12:06
Yeah, that's right.
12:09
At any point during this interview, did you lie and we didn't catch you?
12:21
No, Barry.
12:24
Right.
12:24
I wanted to kinda lie just to see if it would pick it up, but this is quite serious.
12:24
No, I know, that's why I'm not trying to make a joke out of it.
12:24
It's weird.
12:28
I immediately got nervous when I strapped this on because you watch a lot of movies where this is on and then I noticed this is like a super old-school lie detector test, at least it looks like when it's in a suitcase, which is even more intimidating.
12:36
The only suggestion I would have to make it even more intimidating because if you rocked a monocle.
12:43
Maybe I'll get a monocle.
12:43
That's, that's the only thing that could make this more intimidating.