Ze Frank’s Open Source Comedy
Beloved web comic, literate zeitgeist-channeler and star of both PopTech 2004 and 2005 Ze Frank was profiled in the Styles section of Sunday’s New York Times for his recent “open sourcing” of The Show, his must-watch daily video podcast.
The burdens of daily creative production led Ze to invite some of his fans (and critics) to write one of The Show’s script’s for him, called Fabuloso Friday, which he then exactingly performed. The results are… charming, and might just define the limits of bottom-up, wiki-fied collaboration: sure, 500 monkeys banging on typewriters might one day get you Shakespeare, but its unclear if even 50,000 monkeys will ever be as funny as Ze. (I think that’s a compliment.)
Check out The Show, the Comedy Wiki the fans used to produce the ‘open source’ episode and reminisce with this .mp3 archive of Ze’s 2005 PopTech appearance.
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