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"Kal Penn has opened up about his job interview for the White House.  The A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas actor revealed that his role in the stoner comedy never came up when interviewing for a position in President Barack Obama&amp;#039;s administration, the New York Times reports.  &amp;quot;You have to list the jobs you&amp;#039;ve been fired from, and the two jobs I was fired from were sitcom pilots, because the executive producer didn&amp;#039;t believe I was funny enough,&amp;quot; Penn recalled.  He continued: &amp;quot;So I was looking at these forms like, &amp;#039;How do I word this in a diplomatic way, because I want to be honest?&amp;#039; And I wrote, &amp;#039;Fired for not being funny enough&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Penn recently insisted that Hollywood and Washington DC are very different, describing his time in DC as a &amp;quot;culture shock&amp;quot;. The actor has said he is happy to be making films again after working as a White House staffer for a year. A Very Harold &amp;amp; Kumar Christmas is currently on US release, and reaches the UK on December 9. Watch the trailer for A Very Harold &amp;amp; Kumar Christmas below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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