Kal Penn is Not Dead!
April 7, 2009 by House MD Episodes
Filed under About House MD, Favorite Episodes, House Actors/Characters
OMG.. if you had a chance to watch House tonight, April 6, 2009, I think no one expected what happened.
***Spoiler Alert***
Kal Penn is NOT DEAD. Yes, Kutner is gone, but Kal Penn is alive and well. He had asked Fox to be let off the show of House MD in order to focus more on his movie career. As you probably know, Kal Penn has done a lot of recently popular movies - in fact, he's perhaps the busiest actor on House MD because of all the movie work he has been doing even while working on the show.
And you won't believe where Kal Penn is leaving to go!!!
Read all about it at Kal Penn to join the White House??
For all of you other House fans out there, I'm sure you can understand what I mean when I say that this is a tragic loss for House, but the way they were able to set up this episode was just too good. I swear, I cried... I know, TV, not real, I understand that! But I cried anyway...
Feel free to post your own little memorials to Dr. Lawrence Kutner. The show is really going to be different without his funny little antics...
I will miss the character, but his movies will make up for the loss
I know, I had the same thought. Kal Penn is the only one really doing something outside the show. I wonder if that’s made problems in shooting during the last two years?? Anyway, we’ll still get to see him elsewhere, and last night’s show was just crazy good…
Kal Penn left because he’s going to work at the White House.
Quote:
“Yes. I was incredibly honored a couple of months ago to get the opportunity to go work in the White House,” said Penn, still famous for his role in the “Harold and Kumar” films. “I got to know the President and some of the staff during the campaign and had expressed interest in working there, so I’m going to be the associate director in the White House office of public liaison.” [sic]
Specifically, Penn will reprise his role as an Obama spokesperson and coordinate the administration’s outreach efforts with the “Asian-American and arts communities,” the Chicago Sun-Times reported on Tuesday. He’ll serve directly under Valerie Jarrett, chief of the Office of Public Liaison.