We Caught Up With Kazoo Kid to Find Out What He's Up to Now | Know Your Meme Interviews

We recently caught up with Brett Ambler, known by many as Kazoo Kid, to learn all about the backstory of his famous meme, how he feels about becoming a living meme, and if he's still rocking the kazoo today. It's FUN FUN FUN FUN FUN!

A bit of backstory:
In 2011 the internet was introduced to Kazoo Kid when YouTuber Jim VanBlaricum uploaded a segment of the episode "You On Kazoo" from the 1989 children's show "Special Friends" to his channel. However, the video wasn't widely spread online until 2014 when the Dead VCR YouTube channel uploaded an edited version of the episode. From there, numerous memes and remixes of "You On Kazoo" and Kazoo Kid were spread all over the internet.

Find Brett online:

#KazooKid #YouOnKazoo #BrettAmbler

[Shadow__X]

I didn't expect him to be this old today

[GabrielGABFonseca]

What a delightfully chill meme-stardom! Sometimes these can become rather depressing or sad, with the person either overshadowed or tarnished by the meme, but Brett seems to be having a good time with it!

[tanjimpurno]

Me when I saw a middle aged man with gray hair instead of a blond teen:
WAIT A MINUTE

[itstunny]

oh hey I made the meme at 3:12 ! it was back in 2016 when i was in 10th grade, and it ended up getting over 80k notes on tumblr. a friend sent this video to me asking if i made the meme and i flashed back lmaoooo. glad to hear brett is chill about all this !

[yamatanoorochi]

The kazoo video made me remembering how fun it was being a child
I miss that feeling

[archangelmichael]

What a nice wholesome video. Thumbs up!

[rishavagarwal]

When I saw the adult version of this kazoo kid : Wait a minute who are you ??!!!
I just couldn't stop laughing

[AriHatesMakingUsernames]

Dude my whole school used to be obsessed with this meme and we ended up buying kazoos just to recreate it

[Ashley__Rose]

It’s INSANE the VHS of this on eBay is selling for over seven HUNDRED dollars 😳

[hiddindragon]

Favorite part is that YOU KNOW this man took time to setup so all his instruments are perfectly situated so you can see them in the background haha

[havokmusicinc]

Mike Diva's remix of the kazoo kid video is a classic

[verdatum]

y'know, there used to be a trumpet mute that was literally just a cup-mute only with 3 kazoos jammed on the front to give it some more buzz. It hasn't been made in decades. I've been meaning to make my own just to hear it, but, I'm pretty lazy. Just felt like sharing.

[Rizqy_Rogers]

The meme legend has said hello in this interview

[lilytyler]

The video may have been poor quality, but Brett did a great job. Surprised he didn’t audition for Disney or Nickelodeon. He gave zero fucks about looking silly and understood the assignment.

[mongstyt]

I finally get to see the kid (the guy), who made my favourite meme😢😭😄

[YJerms]

Yall should've released this a couple of weeks ago on national kazoo day lol

[lightstream]

In a way, kazoo kid is like mister clean in that he saves the day 99.9 percent of the time

[amypetersen]

This was a story on wait wait don’t tell me just a couple weeks ago. I’d never heard of it but knew Melissa and Doug so I had to find this and then after seeing the viral clip came here and saw this interview. Very cool that this is his claim to fame!

[RighteousInquisition]

Got this from the Kazoo Kid - Trap Remix.

[OR]

2:50 Do you know that video?
Well of course I know him, he's me.