Rhett and Link
| Rhett & Link | |
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Rhett (left) and Link (right) in 2013
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| Born |
Rhett: October 11, 1977 Macon, Georgia, U.S. Link: June 1, 1978 Boone Trail, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Residence | Burbank, California, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | North Carolina State University |
| Occupation | |
| Years active | 2006–present (YouTube) |
| Height |
Rhett: 6 ft 7 in Link: 6 ft |
| Website | www |
Rhett and Link are an Internet comedy duo consisting of Rhett James McLaughlin (born October 11, 1977) and Charles Lincoln "Link" Neal III (born June 1, 1978).
Self-styled as "Internetainers" (a portmanteau of the words "Internet" and "entertainers"), they are known for their online viral videos, comedy songs, ten-episode TV series Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings for the Independent Film Channel, their daily morning talk-show, Good Mythical Morning, their YouTube Red series "", and more recently, their YouTube series "This Is Mythical". In their 2008 documentary, Looking for Ms. Locklear, they chronicled their search for the first grade teacher in whose class they met for the first time.
Rhett and Link met in 1984 at Buies Creek Elementary School in Buies Creek, North Carolina, where they attended first grade, a meeting about which they have subsequently written a song and made a movie (Looking For Ms. Locklear - 2008). They met through having to stay in at recess as they were both doodling on their desks. In an interview on The Tonight Show they state that they stayed in during recess because both of them had written swear words on their desks. They stayed in and colored in mythical creatures such as a unicorn (hence their YouTube channel name, GMM/Good Mythical Morning) In their freshman year of high school, both Rhett and Link signed a blood oath on a piece of paper which said, "We will do something together some day". Link kept it through his adulthood in a wallet. Unfortunately, the wallet was lost as was the original copy of the paper.
At age fourteen, they wrote a screenplay entitled "Gutless Wonders" and began shooting a film based on it. They shot only a couple of scenes and the film was never finished. This screenplay ultimately was read in multiple episodes of Good Mythical Morning. In high school they shot a 25-minute film-parody on the tragedy of Oedipus Rex. Rhett was Oedipus and Link was his father's servant. Rhett has also stated on their main YouTube channel, Good Mythical Morning, that he and Link were both members of a Punk Rock band as teenagers known as "The Wax Paper Dogz" and have played at an Independence Day festival.
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