RIP Jack Rebney (a.k.a. Winnebago Man)

If you’ve not seen the video on YouTube and subsequent documentary made about Rebney, you’re missing out. It’s been my go to when I’m having a shit day at work for a number of years.

 

I cannot stress this enough: NSFW

 

Just goes to show that to live to be 93 you need to be an acerbic, angry volcano all the time.

 

Half of us on this board will be invincible.

 

Jack Rebney, viral 'Winnebago Man' and documentary subject, dies at 93

 

It’s the type of video that can never be matched. People are too self-aware in front of a camera. Actors know their outtakes can end up as internet fodder. That sort of outburst would be staged now.

He was a real-life “I Think You Should Leave” sketch come to life.

 

If you haven't watched the documentary (I think it is free on Tubi), it's worth your time. The outtakes weren't just spliced together to be funny; the production staff had had enough of him and were hoping this would get him fired, which it did. Had he been like this but also kept those folks on his side we may never get this majestic work of poetry.