Without Jon Stewart’s brand of in-depth investigation, I never would’ve known that the Pillsbury Doughboy engaged in some questionable behavior with a strudel or that the helping hand from Hamburger Helper had a Nazi past. On Stewart’s late-night Comedy Central series, The Daily Show, those and other secrets came out during a segment on the voice actor from Geico who lost his job recently after questioning the mental capacity of conservative FreedomWorks members. Stewart figured it was as good a time as any to look at spokescharacters (purportedly) going off the rails. There was that Tony the Tiger mauling incident, and the Michelin man’s sex trafficking charges. (Great mug shot!) Check out the clip, really, it’ll explain everything.
—Posted by T.L. Stanley