Guess which famous Hollywood actor has just joined the Obama administration!
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Face smeared to prevent spoilage.

Find out after the jump! Um, spoilers and stuff, I guess, if you watch the show House. (I've never seen it. From what I gather, it is about a grumpy doctor! So it's kind of like Becker.) Anyway, if you do watch House, but you didn't watch it last night, I guess this is a pretty big spoiler.

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That's right, it's Kumar!

Kumar, whose real name is Kal Penn, has appeared in two Harold & Kumar movies and had a role on House. But in last night's episode, his character randomly committed suicide with little to no explanation! Now that's what I call writing off a character. Take that, Dumbledore.

Kumar Penn is joining the Obama administration as an "associate director at the Office of Public Liason." No word on whether his new duties include the elimination of bogarting, or picking up a 12-pack of sliders for late night grill-seshs*. Kumar Penn gave an interview with Entertainment Weekly, explaining more about the whole deal—read it here.
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In the meantime, if you're a House fan, you can go to the incredibly creepy website that Fox has set up to memorialize Penn's character. Seriously, it's really creepy.

Meanwhile, unsubstantiated rumors continue to circulate** that Harold will also be joining the Obama administration, as "Undersecretary of Partying Down!".

*I'm very sorry—these were the best stoner/White Castle jokes I could come up with.
**Not really, unless me saying it just now counts as unsubstantiated rumor.