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Karina Longworth
By Karina Longworth posted 4 months ago
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Jeff Wells points to the above clip of Kal Penn talking about Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay on Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and it’s worth watching just for the spectacle of seeing an actor on a cable news program explaining the “dual purpose” of poop jokes.

But I must do a bit of fact checking: Olbermann introduces his guest by bragging that Guantanamo was “reviewed by one critic as a ’scatological remix of a Keith Olbermann tirade.’” That “one critic” was Joe Leydon at Variety. The actual sentence? “Not that the entire pic is a slapsticky, scatological remix of a Keith Olbermann tirade.” Olbermann/his producers justify centering their top story of the evening on a stoner comedy in its third week of release by loosely tying it to the recent release of a Sudanese journalist from the military prison, but it’s not enough to cover up the evidence that this is a Google Alert taken out of context.