# You On Kazoo You On Kazoo, also known as Kazoo Kid, is a viral video clip of child actor Brett Ambler cheerfully playing a kazoo on the 1989 educational show Special Friends. An edited YouTube upload from 2014 pulled the forgotten footage back into circulation, where it became a favorite target for YouTube Poops and techno remixes. ## Origin The source material is a segment from the 1989 children's program Special Friends titled "You On Kazoo," in which Brett Ambler plays a kazoo alongside other kids[3]. YouTuber Jim VanBlarium uploaded the raw segment on March 24th, 2011[6], but the clip did not pick up traction until a condensed, more memeable edit arrived three years later. On August 25th, 2014, the Dead VCR YouTube channel posted an edited version of the episode that became the reference cut for the meme[3]. Within roughly two years the Dead VCR upload gathered more than 500,000 views and over 2,200 comments[3]. - **Platform:** VHS / Special Friends (1989), YouTube (viral spread 2014) - **Creator:** Dead VCR (2014 edit); original footage from Special Friends - **Date:** 2014 ## Overview You On Kazoo, also called Kazoo Kid or Wait A Minute, Who Are You, centers on a short scene where a young Brett Ambler grins into the camera, grabs a kazoo and leads a group of kids through a buzzing little jam[3]. The clip comes from a 1989 episode of the children's series Special Friends, and the appeal is almost entirely in Ambler's wide-eyed delivery and the hypnotic kazoo loop[3]. Most of the edits built around the footage lean into that loop. The 2014 Dead VCR cut tightened the pacing and became the version everyone remixed, and from there the clip got pushed through YouTube Poop treatment, techno beat drops and acid-trip gag edits[1][5]. The line "Wait a minute, who are you?" became the signature audio tag, with uploaders chopping and pitching it over electronic backing tracks[2]. ## How to Use Edits typically isolate Ambler's "Wait a minute, who are you?" or the buzzing kazoo riff and loop it under techno, dubstep or acid-house backing. A common convention is to pair the clip's bright 80s video grading with a sudden hard beat drop, often adding YouTube Poop-style sentence mixing to make Ambler appear to say something absurd. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is You On Kazoo? You On Kazoo, also known as Kazoo Kid, is a viral video of child actor Brett Ambler playing a kazoo with other kids on the 1989 series Special Friends, widely remixed after a 2014 YouTube edit[3]. ### Where did You On Kazoo come from? The clip comes from a 1989 Special Friends segment titled "You On Kazoo," first uploaded to YouTube by Jim VanBlarium in 2011 and then re-edited by the Dead VCR channel in August 2014[3][6]. ### What does You On Kazoo mean? It refers to the specific kazoo-playing scene and Ambler's "Wait a minute, who are you?" line, used as an absurd nostalgic clip for remixes and YouTube Poops[3][2]. ### How do you use You On Kazoo? People typically loop the kazoo riff or Ambler's dialogue over techno or dubstep, or run the footage through YouTube Poop sentence mixing, as in edits by Grant NOT The Flash Gustin and Gumble Dog[2][4]. ### Is You On Kazoo still popular? It is a classic 2010s YouTube curio rather than an active format; its biggest surge came through the Hood Vines Facebook repost in January 2016, which drew around 2 million views in 24 hours[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRpdIrq7Rbo]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF9al7Aioa4]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-on-kazoo]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwshz2b2xvM]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mx0Wo2la0I]() 6. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=387SYnefk3o]() 7. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWt-rqZp8_U]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/you-on-kazoo Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library