#420: Jon Hurwitz & Hayden Schlossberg

It goes without saying that most Indians like Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle and that they'll probably line up to check out its upcoming sequel which hits multiplexes soon. They love Kal Penn and maybe even Jon Cho. They saw the movie with their Indian roommates and afterward joked about roadtripping to the nearest White Castle to buy a case of sliders and a brick of cheeba.

As if a stoner comedy that could appeal to the masses without reducing its Asian and South Asian American leads to stereotypes wasn't enough of a godsend to Indians, the team that brought us Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle are about to drop a sequel blatantly wrought with contemporary political relevence: Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay.

Holy Krishna, Indians are thinking to themselves at this point. A mainstream comedy about the racial profiling of South Asians by an American Homeland Security Department too dense to process the differences between potential Al Qeada operatives and a Punjabi grandfather who wears a turban for religious purposes? This is going to be both hilarious and vindicating! The people who write this stuff must be completely in tune with the mentality of South Asians to tackle such a complex topic with humor and grace!

Um, except not. The people who write Harold and Kumar seem to be the least Korean and Indian people on the face of this Earth. Their names are Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg. No disrespect to Mr. Hurwitz and Mr. Schlossberg's merits as screen writers, but it seems like in a world of 2 billion people on the continent of Asia probability would be in our favor that at least 1 or 2 Indian dudes would be able to write Kal bhai some jokes. What would NPH do?