Rhett & Link

Rhett James McLaughlin (born October 11, 1977) and Charles Lincoln "Link" Neal III (born June 1, 1978) are an American comedy duo.

Self-styled as "Internetainers" (a portmanteau of "Internet" and "entertainers"), they are known for creating and hosting the YouTube series Good Mythical Morning.

Their other notable projects include comedic songs and sketches, their IFC series Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings, their YouTube Premium series Rhett & Link's Buddy System, their podcast Ear Biscuits and their novel The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek.

Rhett and Link met on September 4, 1984, the date they started first grade at Buies Creek Elementary School in Buies Creek, Harnett County, North Carolina.

They subsequently wrote a song and made a documentary about this meeting: Looking for Ms. Locklear. In an interview on The Tonight Show, they stated that they had to stay in during recess because both of them had written swear words on their desks.

They were given coloring books to fill out with mythical creatures (such as unicorns), hence their YouTube channel name, Good Mythical Morning.

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 and Link were both members of a Christian punk rock band as teenagers known as "The Wax Paper Dogz".

In 1996, they started college and were roommates at North Carolina State University, where Link studied industrial engineering and Rhett studied civil engineering.

Rhett graduated magna cum laude in December 2000, and Link graduated summa cum laude in May 2001.

They worked in their respective fields for a time, Link at IBM and Rhett at Black & Veatch.

They also made videos and performed comedy sketches for a religious organization, Cru.

During their time at Cru, they began developing their signature comedy style as a duo, subsequently deciding to become full-time entertainers.

Rhett & Link quit their jobs as engineers soon after graduating from college to shift their focus to their Christian evangelism with Cru.

They made comedic videos for meetings and conferences after being inspired by the host at the first weekly Cru meeting they attended as freshmen at North Carolina State University.

Later, they transitioned to making comedic YouTube videos full-time, without Christian ministry.

Under their production company Mythical Entertainment, the duo run a number of media properties, some starring themselves and some featuring other performers.

On January 3, 2011, the duo launched a morning talk show, "Good Morning Chia Lincoln" in their studio, located in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, with an Abraham Lincoln Chia Pet as a centerpiece, where they picked a topic, usually a personal experience or news story, and stated their opinions on it.

The series ended on February 28, 2011, as a result of half of the Chia Pet dying.

After the move to Los Angeles and the cancellation of their TV Show, Commercial Kings, the duo launched Good Mythical Morning on January 9, 2012.

The series took the same format as their previous show and added a "Wheel of Mythicality", containing suggestions from fans on how they would end the show, usually with a brief improvised scene.

Good Mythical Morning ran its first three seasons ending on April 5, 2013, as the duo took a break from the daily videos to start a new show with a weekly format, The Mythical Show.

The series won the Best Variety Series at the International Academy of Web Television Awards in January 2013.

The fourth season of GMM introduced the "Taste Test" series where the hosts guess the food in blindfolds, challenge themselves to eat something or compare a particular type of food across different brands.

Some of the most popular videos in GMM from this series are the "Bug War Challenge", the "Ghost Pepper Challenge", the "Carolina Reaper Challenge" and the "Sriracha Challenge".

Season 5 of GMM brought in "Will It" series, where the hosts try and invent different varieties of a famous type of food with unusual and often increasing levels of disgusting ingredients.

After the end of The Mythical Show on July 11, 2013, the duo continued with the Good Mythical Morning series, now with an addition to the main GMM episode-Good Mythical More ("the show after the show") uploaded simultaneously to a separate channel in addition to their GMM channel.

The 'Good Mythical More' episodes held on to their 'improvised on the spot' nature from earlier season of GMM while the main episodes became more and more structured.

The first episode was aired on May 5, 2014, on Cinco De Mayo titled "Will it Taco" where they tried pine needles, baby shampoo and pork blood tacos.

The series was also featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon with episodes of "Will it Tea", "Will It S'more", "Will it Hummus", and "Will It Hot Dog".

Season 6 of Good Mythical Morning premiered on July 14, 2014, with a new introduction sequence with animation by Digital Twigs and music by Pomplamoose.

Several notable personalities, including PewDiePie, Mayim Bialik, Shay Mitchell, Bill Hader, Amy Schumer, and Daniel Radcliffe have been guests on the show.

The 1000th episode of Good Mythical Morning was uploaded on the morning of October 13, 2016 (4 years, 9 months, and 4 days after the first episode aired on January 9, 2012).

The video was titled "1000th Episode Celebration Special" and has received 3.3 million views as of March 5, 2023.

On October 19, the first episode of the YouTube Red original show Rhett and Link's Buddy System aired on the Good Mythical Morning channel.

On July 23, 2021, the 2000th episode of Good Mythical Morning was uploaded, marking 9 years, 6 months and 14 days since the first episode aired on January 9, 2012, and 4 years, 9 months and 10 days since the premiere of the 1000th episode on October 13, 2016.