'He was always making sure you had lunch, making sure you ate and that you drank water and had coffee. 'He was really a sweet guy,' Rodriguez says of Potenza. He became so popular that when he died in 2011, The New York Times honored him with a featured obituary with a photo alongside his nephew. Potenza became known as an affable personality who often gave people (including celebrities) cash right out of his pocket. As with Rodriguez, Kimmel made Potenza famous as he sent him to interview celebrities. Rodriguez started on the show as more of a correspondent and a co-sidekick to Kimmel's beloved Uncle Frank Potenza, a former New York City police officer known for his extreme generosity. 'I get to meet a lot of people, I get to eat different types of food and everybody is so nice to me,' Rodriguez says. It's all part of his weeklong trip on the 'Guillermobile,' a large orange tour bus that has a huge picture of Rodriguez's face emblazoned on both sides. Rodriguez came to the State Fair of Texas on Tuesday to be one of the first to try some of the new foods that are finalists in the Big Tex Choice Awards. The show frequently sends Rodriguez across the country for remote segments that usually involve drinking and eating the local cuisine. Kimmel has taken his show from his homebase in Los Angeles to his original hometown of Brooklyn for a week of shows at the Brooklyn Academy of Music for three of the last six years. Barrett told Kimmel about it and the host said, 'We got to put this guy in the show,' according to an interview with Rodriguez last year in People magazine. A few months into the late night show, former Mighty Mighty Bosstones singer and then-show announcer Dicky Barrett caught Rodriguez, who was then working as a parking lot attendant for the studio, sleeping in his car. Rodriguez has been on the show almost since its premiere in 2003. I'm blessed to have a job working for him.' 'The show, it's fun for me and it's great,' Rodriguez says. Still, I wouldn't be comfortable at this point buying any of the bakery items to bring home because I am afraid they will be burnt.The great Hank Kingsley from The Larry Sanders Show once called being a late night host's sidekick 'a dying art,' but Guillermo Rodriguez, the parking lot attendant turned sidekick for ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, is bringing it back from the dead. We did get a chocolate cream pie at the Ted's Bulletin restaurant next door for dessert one night and it was delicious and the crust wasn't even burnt. You will not find a golden croissant here - their's are the color of mud. I know the trend for the past several years has been to over-brown breads and pastries and it seems the Sidekick Bakery goes beyond even that egregious level of over-browning. We walk past here often and peek in to see if anything catches our eye but we are always put off by the dark brown croissants.

I wasn't a fan of the signature pop-tart either. The 2nd slice we purchased was burnt through both layers and inedible (they should have thrown this one out).

We decided to try it again since the first time we had it was during the soft opening and we hoped maybe they were just working out the kinks with a new oven. The first time it tasted heavily of flour and the very bottom was burnt. Unfortunately, we haven't really enjoyed the treats we bought here. We wanted to love them and were so excited to have another bakery in the neighborhood. Overall, I would say they're more of a 2.5 than a 3 star. Will probably be back but I definitely want to try the croissants. The cake was also very good and the filling was delicious. The filling wasn't overly sweet but very savory and flavorful. The bread portion of the Ted tart reminded me of shortbread cookies. but this place had them and they were delightful.

I never really thought of it as a baked good. I have been brainwashed to think that pop tarts can only be bought from the grocery store. That's right you read that correctly Ted is making mother effin pop tarts. The redeeming indulgence in my opinion were the Ted tarts. Nobody greeted me until my fiancé walked in a few minutes after me. The service was very robotic and not very welcoming. We got there towards the end of the day so there were a lot of empty spaces in the display case. The selection is varied and everything looks so good in the displays.

So this place is connected with Teds Bulletin, but they have their own door you can walk through.

Sidekick bakery