Hosea Jan "Ze" Frank (/ˈzeɪ/; born March 31, 1972) is an American online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker based in Los Angeles.

[2] At the university, he played guitar and sang lead vocals for a funk/jam band called Dowdy Smack, along with Blues Traveler bassist Tad Kinchla, until its dissolution in 1998.

[citation needed] At the end of 2008, Frank and his wife Jody moved from Brooklyn Heights, in New York City, to Westwood, in Los Angeles.

Forwarded wildly, the invitation soon generated millions of hits and over 100 gigabytes of daily web traffic to Frank's personal website.

[15] As of December 4, 2024, Frank is a member of the Advisory Board of the Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance, a Frankfurt-based project with a mission to revolutionize the description and naming of marine invertebrates.

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.

[20] Eight months later, with the release of the "Body Karaoke" episode on November 30, 2012, "a show" and its related collaborative efforts, including "projects" and "missions" went on unannounced hiatus.

On January 12 and 13, 2013, Frank hosted a public participatory showcase event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History in Santa Cruz, California, entitled "Ze Frank Weekend", featuring hands-on workshops and activities, exhibits related to "a show", and the results of collaborative "projects" and "missions" developed between April and November of the previous year.