Snickers Spots Joel McHale’s Tastebuds in Wacky Workout Spot 

The comedic actor swaps salivation for sweat to promote the brand’s Hi Protein Bar 

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As a comedian, actor and show host, Joel McHale’s mouth already gets quite the workout. 

But in the latest ad for Snickers’ Hi Protein bar, audiences get to witness the insane rigors he goes through to optimize his eating game. 

In the entertainingly silly “Tastebud Training,” McHale and his physically jacked and tatted “tastebud trainer,” Spencer Rich, take us through an epic workout of “face flexes and lip trills” designed to “strengthen, stretch and tone the tastebuds to maximize flavor receptor gains.”

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