Dane Boedigheimer

Who is Dane Boedigheimer?

Dane Boedigheimer, better known by his cybernym Daneboe, is an American filmmaker, singer, and actor of The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange. He is known for his web series The Annoying Orange.

Born in Minnesota and raised in Harwood, North Dakota, Boedigheimer began making videos with his 8mm camcorder as a teenager. Boedigheimer is a speech communications major at Minnesota State University Moorhead, and became a production assistant for MTV's Pimp My Ride three years after earning his degree. He later founded the company Gagfilms in 2005.

The talking food videos Boedigheimer had previously done for JibJab inspired and prepared him to create the first original Annoying Orange video. Due to the success of the video, he later became an online YouTube franchise. The success of the Annoying Orange series is also the subject of a TV series, a video game, a range of toys, a t-shirt line, and costumes.