{"id":10842,"date":"2025-06-18T15:04:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=10842"},"modified":"2025-06-18T15:04:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T15:04:55","slug":"jon-stewart-shocked-by-daily-show-crew-member-winning-pedro-pascal-look-alike-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=10842","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart shocked by Daily Show crew member winning Pedro Pascal look-alike contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Jon Stewart was stunned to learn that one of his longtime colleagues bears a striking resemblance to The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A post shared by The Daily Show (@thedailyshow)<\/p>\n<p>George Gountas, a lighting designer for The Daily Show, recently won a Pedro Pascal look-alike contest in New York City, earning $50 and a year\u2019s worth of free burritos. Stewart, clearly caught off guard, invited Gountas for an on-air interview, admitting, \u201cI\u2019ve never noticed that he looks like Pedro Pascal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To prove it, Stewart showed a photo of Gountas at work \u2014 glasses off, curly hair, full beard \u2014 and finally conceded, \u201cYou\u2019re a sexier, younger Pedro Pascal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gountas explained how he entered the contest after a nudge from a coworker. \u201cTyler Goldman, our stage manager, texted me and said, \u2018You should go win a year of free burritos,\u2019\u201d he recalled. After getting encouragement from his wife, and wardrobe help from a stylist neighbor, Gountas decided to give it a shot \u2014 without even reserving a spot. \u201cI rolled up and I\u2019m like, \u2018Yo, I\u2019m here.\u2019 And they were like, \u2018You\u2019re going to win.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His wife, Jenny Gania, is enjoying the buzz but has one request: \u201cI&#8217;m cool with you getting all this attention, if I can meet Pedro Pascal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facing the camera, Gountas made a personal plea: \u201cHey Pedro, this is Pedro #5 from New York. It would mean the world to my wife if we could meet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Gountas says he\u2019s used to being around famous people, appearing on The Daily Show felt more nerve-wracking than expected. \u201cI knew I was gonna get roasted by my friends,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But in the end, he walked away with bragging rights, burritos\u2014and maybe even a shot at a meeting with the real Pedro Pascal.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Stewart was stunned to learn that one of his longtime colleagues bears a striking resemblance to The Last of Us star Pedro Pascal. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 View this post on Instagram \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 A post shared by The Daily Show (@thedailyshow) George Gountas, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}