ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ze Frank - Humorist, web artist
Ze Frank rose to fame on a viral video -- in 2001! He has been making online comedy, web toys and massively shared experiences (like the addictive Young Me Now Me) ever since.

Why you should listen

Ever since his "How to Dance Properly" viral video -- born as a party invite for 17 friends -- hit the Web in 2001, Ze Frank has been making people giggle, guffaw and gasp out loud whilst procrastinating at work. He defines, in many ways, the genre of online comedy, and continues to innovate madly on the form. 

In 2006 he launched a year-long daily video blog called The Show with Ze Frank, which Slate.com called "the best sustained comedy run in the history of the Web." His rapid-fire delivery and absurd explorations in audience participation (like Earth Sandwich) has influenced a generation of digital native YouTubers. Perhap his most brilliant move: calling on fans to write the show for him. Using collaborative tools, online viewers collectively put words in his mouth (and props in his lap); he faithfully performed this wiki-comedy each week for his "Fabuloso Friday" show.

In 2008, along with Erik Kastner, Frank launched Colowars, the first massively multiplayer game on Twitter, which featured two months of sponsored online events and competitions. Recently he has worked with his audience to create a series of projects based on shared emotions such as pain, fear and the pang of nostalgia. Frank works as a consultant to range of industries on audience engagement and is a public speaker on the subject of the virtual life.

In 2012 he returned to the internet airwaves with "A Show." About which a MetaFilter commenter wrote:

If this were a cult, I would join.

If this were a religion, I would attend services.

If this were a band, I would not torrent the albums, but buy them, full price, from a local independent record store.

If this were a telethon, I would buy multiple tote bags.

Welcome back, Ze.

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TED2014

Ze Frank: Are you human?

Ze Frank: Vocês são humanos?

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Já alguma vez se interrogaram: "Eu sou um ser humano?" Ze Frank sugere uma série de simples perguntas que vão determinar isso. Por favor, descontraiam-se e sigam as perguntas. Vamos começar...
- Humorist, web artist
Ze Frank rose to fame on a viral video -- in 2001! He has been making online comedy, web toys and massively shared experiences (like the addictive Young Me Now Me) ever since. Full bio

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(MusicMúsica) This is the humanhumano testteste,
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Isto é o teste humano,
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a testteste to see if you are a humanhumano.
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um teste para ver se somos um ser humano.
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Please raiselevantar your handmão if something appliesaplica to you.
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Por favor, levantem o braço,
se isto se aplicar a vocês.
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Are we agreedacordado? Yes?
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Estamos de acordo?
Sim?
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Then let's begininício.
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Então, vamos começar.
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Have you ever eatencomido a boogermeleca
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Alguma vez comeram um macaco do nariz.
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long pastpassado your childhoodinfância?
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muito depois da infância?
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(LaughterRiso)
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(Risos)
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It's okay, it's safeseguro here.
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Vá lá. Aqui não há perigo.
(Risos)
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Have you ever madefeito a smallpequeno, weirdesquisito soundsom
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Já alguma vez produziram
um pequeno som esquisito,
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when you rememberedlembrei something embarrassingembaraçoso?
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quando se lembraram
de uma coisa embaraçosa?
Hmmm...
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Have you ever purposelypropositadamente lowercasedminúscula
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Já alguma vez reduziram o tamanho
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the first lettercarta of a texttexto
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da primeira letra de um texto
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in orderordem to come acrossatravés as sadtriste or disappointeddesapontado?
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para se sentirem tristes ou desiludidos?
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(LaughterRiso)
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(Risos)
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Okay.
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Ok.
01:02
Have you ever endedterminou a texttexto with a periodperíodo
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Já alguma vez terminaram
um texto com um ponto final
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as a signplaca of aggressionagressão? Okay. PeriodPeríodo.
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em sinal de agressão?
(Risos)
Ok.
Ponto final.
01:11
Have you ever laughedriu or smiledsorriu
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Já alguma vez se riram ou sorriram
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when someonealguém said something shittymerda to you
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quando alguém vos disse uma coisa maldosa
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and then spentgasto the restdescansar of the day
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e depois passaram o resto do dia
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wonderingperguntando why you reactedreagi that way?
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a pensar porque é que reagiram assim?
(Risos)
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Yes.
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Sim.
01:24
Have you ever seemedparecia to loseperder your airplaneavião ticketbilhete
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Já alguma vez sentiram
que tinham perdido o bilhete do avião
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a thousandmil timesvezes as you walkedcaminhou
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mil vezes, enquanto se dirigiam
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from the check-inSeleção-in to the gateportão?
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do "check-in" para a porta do embarque?
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Yes.
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Sim.
01:34
Have you ever put on a pairpar of pantscalças
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Já alguma vez vestiram umas calças
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and then much latermais tarde realizedpercebi that there was
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e, muito depois, perceberam
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a loosesolto sockmeia smushedesmagadas up againstcontra your thighcoxa?
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que havia uma meia perdida
entalada junto da coxa?
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(LaughterRiso)
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(Risos)
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Good.
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Bom.
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Have you ever triedtentou to guessacho
someonealguém else'soutros passwordsenha
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Já alguma vez tentaram
descobrir a palavra-passe duma pessoa
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so manymuitos timesvezes that it lockedtrancado theirdeles accountconta?
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tantas vezes que bloquearam a conta dela?
(Risos)
01:53
MmmMmm.
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Hmmm...
01:54
Have you ever had a naggingchatear feelingsentindo-me that one day
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Já alguma vez tiveram
a sensação persistente de que um dia
01:58
you will be discovereddescobriu as a fraudfraude?
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seriam desmascarados como uma fraude?
02:02
Yes, it's safeseguro here.
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Vá lá, aqui não há perigo.
(Risos)
02:05
Have you ever hopedesperava that there was some abilityhabilidade
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Já alguma vez tiveram a esperança
de que houvesse alguma aptidão
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you hadn'tnão tinha discovereddescobriu yetainda
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que ainda não tivessem descoberto
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that you were just naturallynaturalmente great at?
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e em que fossem naturalmente os maiores?
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02:13
MmmMmm.
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Hmm...
02:15
Have you ever brokenpartido something in realreal life,
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Já alguma vez partiram
qualquer coisa na vida real
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and then foundencontrado yourselfvocê mesmo looking
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e depois se aperceberam
de que andavam à procura
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for an "undodesfazer" buttonbotão in realreal life?
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de um botão "voltar atrás" na vida real?
(Risos)
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Have you ever misplacedfora do lugar your TEDTED badgecrachá
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Já alguma vez perderam
o vosso crachá TED
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and then immediatelyimediatamente startedcomeçado imaginingimaginando
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e começaram logo a imaginar
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what a three-daytrês dias VancouverVancouver
vacationférias mightpoderia look like?
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como seriam umas férias
de três dias em Vancouver?
(Risos)
02:35
Have you ever marveledse maravilhou
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Já alguma vez se maravilharam
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at how someonealguém you thought was so ordinarycomum
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em como uma pessoa
que julgavam ser tão vulgar
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could suddenlyDe repente becometornar-se so beautifulbonita?
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podia de repente tornar-se tão bela?
02:45
Have you ever staredolhou fixamente at your phonetelefone
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Já alguma vez ficaram
a olhar para o telemóvel,
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smilingsorridente like an idiotidiota while textingmensagens de texto with someonealguém?
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a sorrir como idiotas,
enquanto enviavam
uma mensagem para alguém?
(Risos)
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Have you ever subsequentlysubseqüentemente textedmandou uma mensagem that personpessoa
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Já alguma vez enviaram uma mensagem
para essa pessoa, com a frase:
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the phrasefrase "I'm staringencarando at the phonetelefone
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"Estou a olhar para o telemóvel
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smilingsorridente like an idiotidiota"?
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"a sorrir como um idiota"?
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Have you ever been temptedtentado to,
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Já alguma vez foram tentados,
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and then gavedeu in to the temptationtentação,
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e depois cederam à tentação,
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of looking throughatravés someonealguém else'soutros phonetelefone?
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de espreitar o telemóvel de outra pessoa?
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Have you ever had a conversationconversação with yourselfvocê mesmo
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Já alguma vez conversaram
com vocês mesmos
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and then suddenlyDe repente realizedpercebi
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e de repente perceberam
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you're a realreal assholeIdiota to yourselfvocê mesmo?
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que estavam a ser
uns idiotas para vocês mesmos?
(Risos)
03:16
(LaughterRiso)
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Has your phonetelefone ever runcorre out of batterybateria
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Já alguma vez o vosso telemóvel
ficou sem bateria
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in the middlemeio of an argumentargumento,
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a meio duma discussão,
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and it sortordenar of feltsentiu like the phonetelefone
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e tiveram a sensação de que o telemóvel
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was breakingquebra up with bothambos of you?
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se tinha zangado com vocês os dois?
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Have you ever thought
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Já alguma vez pensaram
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that workingtrabalhando on an issuequestão betweenentre you was futilefútil
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que tratar uma questão
entre vocês era fútil,
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because it should just be easierMais fácil than this,
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porque devia ser mais fácil do que isto,
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or this is supposedsuposto to happenacontecer just naturallynaturalmente?
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ou que supostamente devia
acontecer com naturalidade?
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Have you ever realizedpercebi that very little, in the long runcorre,
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Já alguma vez sentiram que
muito poucas coisas, a longo prazo,
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just happensacontece naturallynaturalmente?
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acontecem com naturalidade?
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Have you ever wokenacordado up blissfullyalegremente
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Já alguma vez acordaram felicíssimos
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and suddenlyDe repente been floodedinundou
by the awfulhorrível remembrancelembrança
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e de repente foram invadidos
pela terrível lembrança
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that someonealguém had left you?
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de que alguém vos tinha deixado?
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Have you ever lostperdido the abilityhabilidade to imagineImagine a futurefuturo
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a capacidade de imaginar um futuro
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withoutsem a personpessoa
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sem uma pessoa
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that no longermais longo was in your life?
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que já não fazia parte da vossa vida?
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Have you ever lookedolhou back on that eventevento
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with the sadtriste smilesorrir of autumnOutono
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com o triste sorriso de outono
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and the realizationrealização that futuresFutures will happenacontecer
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e a certeza de que os futuros vão acontecer
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regardlessindependentemente?
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apesar de tudo?
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CongratulationsParabéns.
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Parabéns.
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You have now completedcompletado the testteste.
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Já terminaram o teste.
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You are all humanhumano.
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Todos vocês são humanos.
(Aplausos)
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(ApplauseAplausos)
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Translated by Margarida Ferreira
Reviewed by Quintino Tavares

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ze Frank - Humorist, web artist
Ze Frank rose to fame on a viral video -- in 2001! He has been making online comedy, web toys and massively shared experiences (like the addictive Young Me Now Me) ever since.

Why you should listen

Ever since his "How to Dance Properly" viral video -- born as a party invite for 17 friends -- hit the Web in 2001, Ze Frank has been making people giggle, guffaw and gasp out loud whilst procrastinating at work. He defines, in many ways, the genre of online comedy, and continues to innovate madly on the form. 

In 2006 he launched a year-long daily video blog called The Show with Ze Frank, which Slate.com called "the best sustained comedy run in the history of the Web." His rapid-fire delivery and absurd explorations in audience participation (like Earth Sandwich) has influenced a generation of digital native YouTubers. Perhap his most brilliant move: calling on fans to write the show for him. Using collaborative tools, online viewers collectively put words in his mouth (and props in his lap); he faithfully performed this wiki-comedy each week for his "Fabuloso Friday" show.

In 2008, along with Erik Kastner, Frank launched Colowars, the first massively multiplayer game on Twitter, which featured two months of sponsored online events and competitions. Recently he has worked with his audience to create a series of projects based on shared emotions such as pain, fear and the pang of nostalgia. Frank works as a consultant to range of industries on audience engagement and is a public speaker on the subject of the virtual life.

In 2012 he returned to the internet airwaves with "A Show." About which a MetaFilter commenter wrote:

If this were a cult, I would join.

If this were a religion, I would attend services.

If this were a band, I would not torrent the albums, but buy them, full price, from a local independent record store.

If this were a telethon, I would buy multiple tote bags.

Welcome back, Ze.

More profile about the speaker
Ze Frank | Speaker | TED.com