IADAS and Webby Awards judges Rhett James McLaughlin & Charles Lincoln “Link” Neal III are Web personalities and “Intertainment” duo whose collected YouTube channels have over 12 million subscribers. Their effusive creativity has spawned popular music videos, commercials, and the Good Mythical Morning talk show which is currently in its 12th season. A multiple Webby Winner for their projects in editing, video, and comedy, Rhett & Link are experts in the craft of the viral video.
As their brand and skills as content creators grew, Rhett & Link expanded their offerings. Besides the Good Mythical Morning and its spinoffs, the two host the Ear Biscuits podcast, a candid conversation with the latest innovators in new media. To learn more, their eponymous wiki site has all the lyrics, history, and details of their work. But, for those die hard fans out there, Don’t Forget To Be Awesome carries all the Rhett & Link apparel you want need.
The Viral Video World of Rhett & Link
Intertainers, Web Personalities, Webby Winners, and IADAS Judges Rhett & Link are experts in the craft of the viral video. Here are 5 highlights from their digital video repertoire.
Following up on their popular productions of Star Trek and Superman, this cringe-comedy of children earnestly performing age-inappropriate theater material is at its most earnest in Breaking Bad: The Middle School Musical. Rhett & Link won the 2014 People’s Choice Online Film & Video Webby in Comedy: Individual Short or Episode for this smart adaptation of one television’s smartest shows.
Rhett & Link’s runaway 2011 mega hit for Ojai Valley Taxidermy has more than 17 million views and counting. This commercial spawned the man-meme himself: Chuck Testa? Yep!
Leave it to Rhett & Link to break down the differences between geeks and nerds. For the unschooled there’s this 2105 Webby Winning video in which the duo spit rhymes and drop knowledge on how nerds are super smart and geeks are also smart, but also kinda cool in an ironic way. It’s hip-hop, Rhett & Link style.
This video was analyzed to death upon its release in 2009, but its point remains the same: Red House Furniture doesn’t discriminate. It sells furniture for black people and white people. And Hispanic people. And all people.
In a feat of video editing mastery, “2 Guys 600 Pillows” was awarded not one, but 2 Webby Awards in 2011. Created for Carpenter Co. and SleepBetter.org (who supplied all the pillows), this video came about from a suggestion by YouTube user hotshot4525 as part of Rhett & Link’s Submit a Song Idea Series.
Rhett & Link Delivering their 5-Word speech for winning a Webby in Online Film & Video: Variety (Channel) for their "Good Mythical Morning" web show, "We Couldn't Agree On Anything."
