LOL WITH IT: A Rutgers prof and his moustache take on Nicki Minaj

Matt Ferguson (aka Mattstache) has been making silly videos with his high school buddy for a decade. A month or two ago, he uploaded one that hit half-a-million views in two days.

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LOL WITH IT: A Rutgers prof and his moustache take on Nicki Minaj

POSTED: Friday, April 13, 2012, 12:00 PM

Filed Under: Comedy LOL With It

Every Friday, Ryan Carey covers the people and events that are giving Philly the giggles.

Matt Ferguson (aka Mattstache) has been making silly videos with his high school buddy for a decade. A month or two ago, he uploaded one that hit half-a-million views in two days. The particularly hairy Rutgers professor had quite a full beard, and thought it'd be fun to incorporate the incremental removal of said beard into one of his silly lip-syncs. The result was a video so ridiculously goofy that Huffpost, CBS Newsblog and a number of heavy tweeters took notice. Singing along to David Guetta's "Turn Me On" (feat. Nicki Minaj), Ferguson recorded six different "heads" of his in choreographed lip-synch, each head with a slightly different facial-hair situation and a different persona.

"For the next video, we're thinking about doing some side content with the individual personas, because the specific personalities seem to be what people really like about the video."

Ferguson isn't your typical YouTube fame-seeker. A professor of American studies, he is also the assistant director of student life at Rutgers New Brunswick. A generally silly guy, Ferg's partner in crime is fellow Cherokee High School grad Brian Bennet, who now has a video production company in Hollywood called Dynasty Films. You may be familiar with the chilling time-lapse segments in Breaking Bad? Those are Dynasty Films' handy work. Mattstache's video isn’t quite as dramatic as that, but what it lack in heaviness it makes up for in facial hair! Check it out below:

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