Peter Alexis Shukoff (born August 15, 1979), also known as Nice Peter
or Bluesocks, is an American comedian, musician and Internet
personality. A self-described "Comic/Guitar Hero", he is best known
for the comedy on his YouTube channel, NicePeter, especially the
comedic series Epic Rap Battles of History. As of June 8, 2016,
NicePeter has over 2.6 million YouTube subscribers. The day after
hitting one million subscribers, the video game channel G4 crowned
Nice Peter the King of Dot Comedy on Attack of the Show. His two
channels, Nice Peter and Epic Rap Battles (ERB), have a total of over
17 million subscribers, and 4 billion views as of February 2019. He
also has a third channel that he uses for vlogs and "Monday Shows", a
show that he uploads on either Mondays or Tuesdays consisting of
different segments including "Viewer Mail", "Twitter Question Time",
and "Ask a Giraffe". They have been featured on the Huffington Post,
Billboard.com, and the January 2012 issue of Wired. An interview with
Forbes details Peter and his partner Lloyd Ahlquist's rise to
fame.Shukoff was born in Rochester, New York to a Russian father and
an American mother. He has 2 sisters. As a child, Shukoff would often
Irish dance for his class. He attended Fredonia State University. He
later became a birthday party magician.Shukoff learned to play guitar
before he had finished school, but spent a time pursuing a comedic
career. Once settled in Chicago, he began playing live in bars in
Chicago, the midwestern USA, and the UK. Shukoff states in Monday
Shows that he has previously known how to Irish dance, a talent he
says has deteriorated since his childhood days. He also adopted a
rescue dog from an animal shelter named Charlie. Nice Peter tweeted on
March 1, 2018 that he had gotten married.Epic Rap Battles of History
went on hiatus after Shukoff announced he had become a father. The
hiatus lasted a little under a year until the series returned on
December 7, 2018, and a new episode was released for the first time in
nearly two years.Epic Rap Battles of History is an internet series
created by Peter Shukoff and Lloyd Ahlquist. The series features
historical and popular fictional and real-life figures, battling each
other through the medium of rap. Battles have included "Darth Vader
vs. Adolf Hitler","Abraham Lincoln vs. Chuck Norris" and "Miley Cyrus
vs. Joan of Arc". Some episodes use characters that are fictional,
whether it be television or movie characters, as seen in "Rick Grimes
vs. Walter White". Others use comic book characters, as seen in "Goku
vs. Superman". Episodes typically consist of Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD
rapping against each other in character, but sometimes feature guest
stars in addition or replacing Shukoff and Ahlquist. Occasionally, the
pair appear in non-speaking background roles, as in the episodes
"Cleopatra vs. Marilyn Monroe", "Gandhi vs. Martin Luther King Jr",
"Miley Cyrus vs. Joan of Arc", and "Michael Jordan vs. Muhammad Ali".
Shukoff and Ahlquist also contributed a rap battle to the film The
SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water and performed it with Matt Berry.
He also made a cameo appearance as a surfer dude in the film.
or Bluesocks, is an American comedian, musician and Internet
personality. A self-described "Comic/Guitar Hero", he is best known
for the comedy on his YouTube channel, NicePeter, especially the
comedic series Epic Rap Battles of History. As of June 8, 2016,
NicePeter has over 2.6 million YouTube subscribers. The day after
hitting one million subscribers, the video game channel G4 crowned
Nice Peter the King of Dot Comedy on Attack of the Show. His two
channels, Nice Peter and Epic Rap Battles (ERB), have a total of over
17 million subscribers, and 4 billion views as of February 2019. He
also has a third channel that he uses for vlogs and "Monday Shows", a
show that he uploads on either Mondays or Tuesdays consisting of
different segments including "Viewer Mail", "Twitter Question Time",
and "Ask a Giraffe". They have been featured on the Huffington Post,
Billboard.com, and the January 2012 issue of Wired. An interview with
Forbes details Peter and his partner Lloyd Ahlquist's rise to
fame.Shukoff was born in Rochester, New York to a Russian father and
an American mother. He has 2 sisters. As a child, Shukoff would often
Irish dance for his class. He attended Fredonia State University. He
later became a birthday party magician.Shukoff learned to play guitar
before he had finished school, but spent a time pursuing a comedic
career. Once settled in Chicago, he began playing live in bars in
Chicago, the midwestern USA, and the UK. Shukoff states in Monday
Shows that he has previously known how to Irish dance, a talent he
says has deteriorated since his childhood days. He also adopted a
rescue dog from an animal shelter named Charlie. Nice Peter tweeted on
March 1, 2018 that he had gotten married.Epic Rap Battles of History
went on hiatus after Shukoff announced he had become a father. The
hiatus lasted a little under a year until the series returned on
December 7, 2018, and a new episode was released for the first time in
nearly two years.Epic Rap Battles of History is an internet series
created by Peter Shukoff and Lloyd Ahlquist. The series features
historical and popular fictional and real-life figures, battling each
other through the medium of rap. Battles have included "Darth Vader
vs. Adolf Hitler","Abraham Lincoln vs. Chuck Norris" and "Miley Cyrus
vs. Joan of Arc". Some episodes use characters that are fictional,
whether it be television or movie characters, as seen in "Rick Grimes
vs. Walter White". Others use comic book characters, as seen in "Goku
vs. Superman". Episodes typically consist of Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD
rapping against each other in character, but sometimes feature guest
stars in addition or replacing Shukoff and Ahlquist. Occasionally, the
pair appear in non-speaking background roles, as in the episodes
"Cleopatra vs. Marilyn Monroe", "Gandhi vs. Martin Luther King Jr",
"Miley Cyrus vs. Joan of Arc", and "Michael Jordan vs. Muhammad Ali".
Shukoff and Ahlquist also contributed a rap battle to the film The
SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water and performed it with Matt Berry.
He also made a cameo appearance as a surfer dude in the film.
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