As The DP reported on Friday, terrible actor Kal Penn will go by the moniker “Kalpen Modi” during his stay here as a Professor of Asian American Studies. I guess that’s probably his real name. Maybe the dude’s trying to get back to his roots after brutally stereotyping them for feeble laughs in so many mediocre films. (I know, I know. The Namesake. Whatever. Can’t make up for Malibu’s Most Wanted.)
Anyway, the name change means that we won’t get to see any of these gems in future DP articles:
“Penn said he was excited to be working at Penn.”
“The Director of Asian American Studies will be overseeing all of Penn’s classes to ensure they meet Penn’s criteria for excellence.”
“Penn will benefit from Penn.”
“Penn is 100% Indian.”
Honestly, reading old DP pieces like this one must have been a total mindfuck for everybody involved — the writer, the editor, and all the readers. So thanks, Professor Modi. Your classes will probably suck, but at least now it will be easy for us to refer to you without implicating the entire University.
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January 29th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Hahah, I laughed at this and I even like Kal Penn.
January 29th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Glad to see profanity is still alive and kicking on the Spin….
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:45 pm
This is a pretty decent attempt at sarcasm, but u can do better. A normal person who reads this post wdn’t laugh at what’s written but at the writer, who cdnt be more stereotypical in his approach. You should consider watching movies like harold n kumar that break stereotypes not malibus that build them, will make your opinions more acceptable. Another suggestion, do not judge an actor by their roles onscreen, Kalpen Modi is a good example of someone who is totally diff. in real life from his reel life.
( I usually don’t give my suggestions to strangers…they are considered as extremely precious by a lota people, but I sensed that you need a li’l help…hence there you go)
February 27th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Kalpen Modi is his real name dude.