Youtube’s Winnebago Man viral celebrity is the premise of the recent Winnebago Man documentary search for the sales pitchman. Finding Jack Rebney is like looking for the wise man on top of a mountain for some kind of knowledge. The reclusive salesman is unaware of his fame left behind for a new media that gobbled him and made him a star on YouTube. He is quoted by the likes of Ben Affleck to Alec Baldwin and even SpongeBob SquarePants. Michael Moore hails Winnebago Man the funniest documentary ever made.
Jack Rebney is the most famous man you’ve never heard of — a Winnebago salesman whose hilarious, foul-mouthed outbursts circulated on VHS tapes in the 90s before turning into a full-blown Internet phenomenon in 2005. Filmmaker Ben Steinbauer goes in search of Rebney — and finds him living alone on a mountain top, unaware of his fame. WINNEBAGO MAN is a laugh-out-loud look at viral culture and an unexpectedly poignant tale of one man’s response to unintended celebrity.
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