Miel Bredouw
Miel Bredouw, is a comedian, podcaster and musician. Initially gaining fame on video site Vine in 2014, Bredow began co-hosting the HeadGum podcast Punch Up the Jam alongside Demi Adejuyigbe in 2017, becoming the sole host in 2019. In July 2020, Bredouw will release her debut album as a musical artist, entitled Tourist Season.
Biography
Bredouw was born in Los Angeles, however spent her childhood on Orcas Island in Washington State. When she was 19, Bredouw moved to Los Angeles to pursue a music career, and became involved with the improv/sketch comedy group Upright Citizens Brigade.Bredouw began posting videos to video site Vine in 2014 under the name Mielmonster, while she was working as a sous-chef for a restaurant in Echo Park. Over the next two years Bredouw became one of the most popular creators on the platform, and was featured in Camp Unplug, a series produced by the platform. By the time the platform closed, Bredow's videos had been looped more than 328 million times by 2016, and her account had over 370,000 followers. Following the platform's closure, Bredouw began posting video content to YouTube.
In 2019, a YouTube clip Bredouw had created singing the tune of "Carol of the Bells" with the lyrics to Three 6 Mafia's “Slob on My Knob” in 2016 was posted by pop culture blog Barstool Sports without crediting her. After lodging a DMCA claim on Twitter, Barstool Sports offered her a $50 gift card to retract her claim. After Bredouw did not respond to further offers, hundreds of messages from Barstool Sports-related accounts or a $2,000 offer, the company filed a counter-notice to Twitter, forcing Bredouw to take legal action if she wanted the company to stop using her videos. As a result, Barstool Sports deleted over 60,000 posts from its Twitter account and 1,000 posts from its Instagram account.
In 2017, Bredouw began hosting the HeadGum podcast Punch Up the Jam alongside Demi Adejuyigbe, a writer and comedian who similarly gained fame on Vine. The podcast involves discussing a popular song with a celebrity guest, and creating a parody of the song, typically a comedic take that addresses the song's weaker points. In 2018, the podcast was named one of the best podcasts of the year by The A.V. Club. Bredouw continued the podcast as its stand-alone host, reformatting the show slightly to allow for discussed songs to be "unpunchable" and including contributions from yMusic's Rob Moose. During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in New York City, comedian Chris Fleming joined the podcast as a temporary co-host. In addition to working on Punch Up the Jam, Bredouw has produced comedy for Funny or Die, Super Deluxe, HBO, and BuzzFeed, and makes regular appearances on Ian Karmel's All Fantasy Everything podcast.
Bredouw debuted as a musician in 2020, releasing her singles "Must Be Fine" and “I’ll Be Holding” in July. These were followed by her debut album Tourist Season, which was produced by her brother Henri Bardot. The album was created over a month and a half in mid-2019, in her parents' barn. The seven tracks on the album each represent a different emotion associated with the break-up of a relationship.
Personal life
Her father Jim Bredouw is a studio musician who co-founded LA Studios / Margarita Mix while living in Hollywood, and worked on a piece of music used in three Nike campaigns. Bredouw has two siblings, musician Henri Bardot and California College of the Arts design lecturer Minnie Bredouw. Bredouw announced that she was dating Anthony Padilla of YouTube channel Smosh in September 2017.Bredouw is vegan, and ran a vegan wedding cake business called Bramble Bakeshop when she lived in Los Angeles.
Discography
Studio albums
| Title | Album details |
| Tourist Season |
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Singles
Guest appearances
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2015 | EastSiders | Waitress | 2 episodes |
| 2015 | Camp Unplug | Mielmonster | Main cast |