Ze Frank is a real gem. Every weekday on “the show” he produces a short video which is uploaded to his site at around 6 pm BST. Yes it’s a videoblog. Whilst it originally focused on news and particularly politics with the growing following of “Sports Racers” that it has collected the content of the shows is becoming ever more diverse, and of course more entertaining. There is still the backdrop of the days events in news but there is also much more wacky activity up front. And he continues to come up with new clever and funny things. He launched an Earth Sandwich contest asking for viewers to lay a piece of bread on the ground (which many did) and to try to organise someone else to lay a piece of bread on the ground simultaneously at the opposite side of the world. Two very devoted fans actually did this with the second piece being laid down in Spain. Ze has asked for the viewers to write an episode using a Wiki which became Fabuloso Friday and is now set to become a regular feature every few weeks or so.

It is so popular that the comments are absolutely wild. Towards the top is just a series of messages saying “Am I first?”. It has been noted by some comment authors that these posts are written before the time required to allow the video to run has elapsed. Ze is continually amusing and almost always has a couple of really funny bits every day. I happen to think that the episode of the 16th June was one of his best ever.