Ze Frank

Ze Frank is an online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Frank was born to German-American parents and raised in a suburb of Albany, New York. He graduated from Brown University in 1995 with a degree in neuroscience. Information given in the show indicates that he has a sister and that he was educated at a Montessori school. Beginning at Brown, Frank played guitar and sang lead vocals for a funk/jam band called Dowdy Smack until its dissolution in 1998.

In 2001, Frank created an online birthday invitation and sent it to seventeen of his closest friends. Forwarded wildly, the invitation soon generated millions of hits and over 100 gigabytes of daily web traffic to Frank's personal Web site. The site grew to include interactive group projects, short films, animations, and video games, many Flash-based, including children's educational videos featuring handy tips such as "Don't vacuum your face".
Frank won a 2002 Webby Award for Best Personal Website and was featured in Time Magazine's "50 Coolest Websites" in 2005. Frank debuted onstage at the Gel conference in 2003, and later spoke at the TED Conference in 2004 and 2005. Below is a video of one of the presentations he did.

In March of 2006, Frank launched a daily video blog known simply as the show with zefrank. Each tightly-edited, three-to-five minute episode combined Daily Show-style commentary on world events with songs, observations, and occasional games or challenges for his viewers to participate in. the show quickly became the most popular portion of his site and helped to increase Frank's visibility in the blogosphere.