Brett Ambler

Brett Ambler was born on December 8, 1984 in Redding, Connecticut, USA, is an actor as well as a musician, perhaps still best known for being the Kazoo Kid, appearing as a child actor in a commercial featuring the Kazoo in 1989. The video later resurfaced in 2016 as a meme, and it pushed him back to popularity. Brett grew up in Redding, but very little information is known about his family. It is also not known if he intended to pursue an acting career in the beginning. However, during one occasion in elementary school, his teacher informed the class about auditions for a toy company's first ever toy product to which he went, and the producers were impressed by how comfortable he was in front of the camera. The toy in question would be the kazoo, a musical instrument which modifies the player's voice through a vibrating membrane, giving a buzzing timbral quality to someone's voice. He did 30 minutes of filming for the commercial, in which he is seen with some friends starting to play the kazoo. According to him, the way the audio of the commercial was recorded was weird, as all male voices were dubbed while female voices were dubbed by just one person. This opportunity would open up more doors for him. In 2011, the Kazoo Kid started appearing online, as a segment of the commercial was uploaded on YouTube by Jim VanBlarium. Three years later, a better refurbished version of the commercial was uploaded to the channel of Dead VCR, which found a bit of popularity, attracting over half a million views. In 2015, a Redditor Mikesicle posted the video, and it gained a lot of upvotes, which led to numerous techno remixes posted on SoundCloud. Video versions of the audio remix were posted on YouTube too, and the following year, the video reached over two million views thanks to the Facebook page of Hood Vines.