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‘The Daily Show’ Has Some Fun With Its Very Own Pedro Pascal
George Gountas won a year’s worth of free burritos in a Pedro Pascal lookalike competition, few figured he’d be on The Daily Show a day later.
After an emotional episode covering the latest political news and an unhinged interview with John Mulaney, Stewart featured Gountas on After The Cut, one of the Comedy Central show’s digital extensions. Gountas revealed that it was Daily Show stage manager Tyler Goldman who first suggested that he should enter and after a little help from a stylist who lives in his building, he “rolled up and they said ‘You’re going to win’.” After looking into camera three (“I know how this works”), Gountas added, “‘Hey Pedro, this is Pedro #5 from New York, it would be a great, great gift if you could meet my wife Jenny, it would mean the world to her, we need to make this happen’,” he said.
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