Last week, the funniest man on the web resigned from his throne and stopped broadcasting his daily mix of adrenalin-fuelled instructions for mankind, at least for now. After one year of daily ramblings about all things current and some things personal, Ze Frank is ready to move on to calmer, less structured things.
Ze single-handedly pushed the floundering video blog genre into the realm of self-styled Tonight Show monologue heights for the 2.0 generation. A terrific performer who addressed his viewers as ‘sports racers’, Ze delivered his posts as if his life depended on them: Extremely precise and tightly written, even if they came off as (and might have been) mostly improvised.
The way he cut his dialogue track contributed greatly to each episode’s impact: Overlapping audio between choppy cuts increased the intensity of his punchy delivery. Over the course of the last 12 months, Ze Frank tuned himself into a master. It’s not hard to imagine where he’ll end up next.
Michael Agger wrote the perfect obituary about The Show in Slate:
Laptop Celebrity: How Ze Frank became a Web Video Star.
Here’s a classic from last August, including Cleo-song and all…
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