Meet Nick and Dan, The Hilarious Baton Rouge Friends Who Became Instagram Stars | The FADER
The “We live, baby!” besties explain how they linked up to spread laughs.
Baton Rouge’s Dan Rue and Nick Joseph are inseparable — and hilarious. So funny, in fact, that their antics launched them into viral stardom. You may recognize the duo from a widely circulated video featuring T-Pain, which racked up up 1.8 million views in a week on one meme account alone. The comedians first garnered attention from a video of them goofing off in the Louisiana State University student union building: Dan’s knees started gyrating, while Nick acted as his hype man, freestyling a tune inspired by bounce artist P Town Moe and New Orleans MC Big Choo. Sprinkling in catchphrases like “We live, baby!” and “Danielson, that’s the one!” they coined their signature skit.
“P Town Moe made a song called ‘Peter Piper,’” Joseph told The FADER. “I took some stuff out of the song and made it creatively positive for kids and grown ups to have fun to. If I let you hear the song you’d be like, ‘Wow this is actually good. It’s vulgar as heck, but I like it.’”
Nick and Dan met in college, when Joseph was a student at Southern University and Rue studied at LSU. “We would always see each other at clubs,” Joseph recalled. “Dan was around Odell Beckham before he went to the league. Once Odell went to the league, we were all we had left, so we just started hanging out more.” They began collaborating on skits from there, and ended up becoming roommates. “It wasn’t even about doing skits anymore,” he said. “We just always hung out.”
In February, the comedians were approached at a New Orleans All-Star weekend event by T-Pain’s manager. “We went to [T-Pain’s] room, and T-Pain walked in and was like, ‘What’s up, you guys are funny. I want to do a video with you guys,’” Joseph remembered. Rue came up with the concept for the resulting skit, which shows the best friends barging into the hotel room, dancing with T-Pain, and Rue running off with his chain.
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