Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 52/@comment-25209034-20150412122854/@comment-4490782-20150412174033

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a play on the Six Degrees of Seperation theory that everyone in the world is connected to everyone else by a chain of maximum six.

E.g. I have a friend > My friend is friends with a guy in Sweden > The Swedish guy knows some Swedish popstar.

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a joke that arose from Kevin Bacon once bragging that he'd worked with everyone in Hollywood. This led to people trying to find the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon where you link people who have appeared in films. E.g. Leonardo DiCaprio was in Wolf of Wall Street with Jon Bernthal > Jon Bernthal was in The Air I Breathe with Kevin Bacon. This means that Leo DiCaprio has a Bacon Number of 2 and Jon Bernthal has a Bacon Number of 1. You can find people's Bacon Numbers by searching the person's name and bacon number on Google where Google looks at the casting for different movies and finds the smallest chain possible to Kevin Bacon.

By the way, Joseph Kony's Bacon Number is 3