“This is so f–king cool!” Kal Penn shouts from pit road at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. “I can yell whatever the f–k I want because nobody can f–king hear me! Woo!”
That’s 15 seconds into a NASCAR segment from Penn’s tenure guest-hosting Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, as the 45-year-old actor attended the spring 2023 race in Sin City for the program.
Penn is best known for his role in the Harold & Kumar film series, but also appeared in movies including Superman Returns, Deck the Halls, National Lampoon’s Van Wilder and, most recently, the 2022 horror film Smile.
He also appeared in television series such as House, American Horror Story, Designated Survivor and How I Met Your Mother. He also served on President Barack Obama’s administration as an associate director in the Office of Public Engagement.
“Really like [Ryan] Blaney, really like Bubba [Wallace],” Penn told Frontstretch‘s Michael Massie on pit road before the Vegas race. “We’re shooting a piece for Comedy Central. Both Bubba and Austin [Dillon] have been great as well. Good feel today. …”
“… I’ve been to a bunch [of races]. It’s been a while, since pre-COVID[-19], so it’s nice to be back.”
Penn said he had been to Las Vegas, Auto Club Speedway and Pocono Raceway, the latter owing to his residency on the East Coast.
“We’re doing a segment on trying to get more people to pay attention to NASCAR,” Penn said.
Penn actually connected with his fiancé, Josh, through the motorsport.
“The way that we met was over a bunch of Coors Lights and NASCAR,” Penn said on The Kelly Clarkson Show in late 2022. “It’s such an absurd story — my dad likes Coors Light, but I did not grow up with NASCAR.
“[…] This dude rolls over to my apartment with an 18-pack of Coors Light […] and he rolls in and changes [the TV] to a NASCAR race. And I just thought to myself, ‘Oh, well this guy’s obviously going to be leaving in 20 minutes with 16 of those beers, because I don’t know anything about NASCAR.’”
As it happened, things turned out differently.
“It turned out that as we started watching the race and talking about NASCAR, we also started talking about camping […] [his family’s] vacations were camping trips to…
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