Peter Alexis Shukoff (born August 15, 1979), best known as his stage name Nice Peter or Bluesocks, is an American musician and Internet personality. A self-described "Comic/Guitar Hero", he is best known for the comedy on his

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YouTube (2006-07-11). Retrieved on 2012-10-26. and especially for the comedic series ''

Epic Rap Battles of History ''Epic Rap Battles of History'' (ERB) is a YouTube web series and music project created by Peter "Nice Peter" Shukoff and Lloyd "EpicLLOYD" Ahlquist. The series pits historical and pop culture figures against one another in a rap battle format. ...

'' which he co-created with

Lloyd Ahlquist Lloyd Leonard Ahlquist (born January 18, 1977), better known by his online alias EpicLLOYD, is an American internet personality best known for the YouTube video series '' Epic Rap Battles of History'', along with Peter Shukoff ("Nice Peter"). Ah ...

("EpicLLOYD") . 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 ''

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''. 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,

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, ''

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'' and the January 2012 issue of ''

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''.

Life and career

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. Shukoff graduated from the School of the Arts in 1997 and attended

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, where he majored in education and history. He originally planned on becoming a history teacher, but the plan did not work out. 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 and comedy clubs in the area, where he met

, his future partner. Shukoff has explained that although he was initially more active on social media, his social media usage decreased as he felt it was artificial. He explains that his baldness helped him realize this.

Career

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vs. Superman". Episodes typically consist of Nice Peter and EpicLLOYD rapping against each other in character, but sometimes feature guest stars in addition to or replacing Shukoff and Ahlquist. Occasionally, the pair appear in non-speaking background roles, as in the episodes " Cleopatra vs.

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", "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

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. Shukoff also made a cameo appearance as a surfer dude in the film. He also did additional voices for film ''The Mitchells vs. The Machines''.

Personal life

Shukoff announced that he had married in 2018. He has 2 children, a daughter born in 2018 and a son born in 2020. They live in Culver City, California.

Awards and nominations

Discography

B-Sides for Kate

# All I Got (the Christmas Song) # I'm Just a Man # High With Pauly # My Favorite Bar # Chuck Norris # Spanglish (unreleased full band recording) # Sarah Palin

Live in Preston

# Intro # Smoke That Weed # Daniel the Boyfriend # Knickers # The Redwings # 50 Cent is a Pussy # F$%k London # Spanglish # Cover Bands # Tru Gangster # Chavs # If You Really Love Me # White Trash Woman # My Right Hand # The Bush Song # Mystery of the Clitoris # I Quit, You Fat Mother F$%cker

Songs about people

# I Fell Asleep on her Boobs # Bald Guy # Cell Phones # Put Your Coat On # Cover Bands # Jennifer # Porn Star # Friends # Hard To Stay # Radical Muslim Penpal # Sugar Momma # The Masterpiece Part II (bonus) # Superman Socks

Songs For Moms

# The Bush Song # Spanglish # Tru Gangster # I Quit, You Fat Mother F$%cker # My Right Hand # If You Really Love Me # Old and Fat Together # Popsi # Make Up Sex # Smoke That Weed

Suburban Highschool

# White Trash Woman # Suburban Highschool # F**k Guitar Center # Snufulupugus # 50 Cent is a Pussy # You Shouldn't Have Pissed Me Off # STD Test # It's Time to be Gay # The Masterpiece # Mystery of the C**t # Dude, I'm So High

Filmography

References

External links

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