The first documentary (that I’m aware of, at least) directly inspired by an unexpected YouTube hit (although I had hoped Thriller in Manilla was going to be about this instead of this), Ben Steinbauer’s Winnebago Man is a portrait of Jack Rebney, the Winnebago salesman whose profanity-filled outtakes for a commercial turned him into a reluctant YouTube star (and, apparently, a subject of controversy — his Wikipedia page has been deleted twice, once for abusive entries, once for incorporating “patent nonsense.”) Below the jump, the original Winnebago Man viral video. Plus, Steinbauer’s answers to The 5 Questions We Ask Everyone, in which he confesses to being Austin’s town slut, and also shares a memorable moment involving puke.
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