Big mustache.

Big mustache.

Tom grew a mustache.

He grows a mustache.

I was big mustache.

Selecting an appropriate mustache.

He shaved his mustache off.

Tom is growing a mustache.

Essentially, I'm a mustache farmer. (Laughter)

this is me, with a mustache

Brown hair. Regular features. Pencil mustache.

Brown hair. Regular features. Pencil mustache.

A mustache grows on the upper lip.

He said his mustache was gonna eat my beard!

And I said, Hang on, that is an amazing mustache.

And he said, I grew the worst mustache ever. (Laughter)

You can see the individual hairs on Ron Swanson's mustache.

Handlebar mustache. Kind of a Village People sort of a character.

And they are start the month clean shaven, rock a mustache not a beard, not a goatee, a mustache for the 30 days of November, and then we agreed that we would come together at the end of the month, have a mustache themed party, and award a prize for the best, and of course, the worst mustache.

Then one more beer and it was, whatever happened to the mustache?

So from that day forward, my life has become about a mustache.

Every day this morning, I wake up and go, my life is about a mustache.

Because he was standing there in like a cheap suit, thin mustache, staring at me.

Don't tell me what I can do or I'll have my mustache eat your beard.

Now trust me, when you're growing a mustache back in 2003, and there were 30 of us back then, and this was before the ironic hipster mustache movement (Laughter) it created a lot of controversy.

Why is that? Why can't we combine growing a mustache and doing something for men's health?

I saw my geometry teacher in high school, Mr. Rucell's wry smile under his handlebar mustache.

And then Saddam Hussein's serious mustache is a problem, but you think of him as a mom.

And from that moment I realized that Movember is so much more than a mustache, having a joke.

And I looked at him, and I was like, I'm pretty sure you can't grow a mustache. (Laughter)

So then there was a lot more beers, and then the day ended with a challenge to bring the mustache back.

We didn't set out to do it and we didn't twist our mustache in some Machiavellian way, but we've done it.

large number of times where you had that exact same set of circumstances where you a guy with the big mustache in the

But there was nothing for this cause, so we married growing a mustache with prostate cancer, and then we created our tagline, which is,

So in Australia, mo is slang for mustache, so we renamed the month of November Movember and created some pretty basic rules, which still stand today.

And he goes, Last year, my mom passed away from breast cancer in Sri Lanka, because we couldn't afford proper treatment for her, and he said, This mustache is my tribute to my mom.

A famous early example is the 1913 Keystone Cops short Barney Oldfield's Race for a Life' which features the now iconic scene of a woman being tied to the railway tracks by an evil mustache twirling villain.

And I said, We're going to come together at the end, we're going to have a mustache themed party, we're going to have DJs, we're going to celebrate life, and we're going to change the face of men's health.

He wears three piece suits and he has a very, very small, important mustache and he is domineering and narcissistic and driven and has an extraordinary ego and he works 16 hour days and he has very strong feelings about alternating current and he feels like a suntan is a sign of moral weakness and he drinks lots of coffee and he does his best work sitting in his mother's kitchen in Zurich for hours in complete silence with nothing but a slide rule.