Documentary film tracks down YouTube’s favorite expletive-spewing Winnebago pitchman.
If you haven’t already, go to YouTube and search “Winnebago man” to join the million-plus others who’ve LOL’d watching outtakes of Jack Rebney—shilling for the 1989 Winnebago lineup—curse his way through missed lines, sweltering heat, swarming flies, and the ineptitude of his unpaid intern, Tony.
But who is this guy? Where did he get his way with words? And why is he so mad? Those are the questions that filmmaker Ben Steinbauer set out to answer after the YouTube video surfaced in 2005. His documentary film, Winnebago Man, is the result. It goes into limited release this spring, with video sales to follow.
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