新SAT必读演讲：Ze Frank: Are you human?

　　新SAT考试范围较广，一些名人演讲常常出现在SAT试题中。新东方在线SAT频道为大家带来新SAT必读演讲：Ze Frank: Are you human?，希望对大家SAT备考有所帮助。

　　新SAT今日名人

　　Richard St. John

　　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 MetaFiltercommenter 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.

　　新SAT必读演讲：Ze Frank: Are you human?英语字幕

　　00:11

　　(Music) This is the human test, a test to see if you are a human. Please raise your hand if something applies to you. Are we agreed? Yes? Then let's begin.

　　00:28

　　Have you ever eaten a booger long past your childhood? (Laughter) It's okay, it's safe here.

　　00:39

　　Have you ever made a small, weird sound when you remembered something embarrassing?

　　00:48

　　Have you ever purposely lowercased the first letter of a text in order to come across as sad or disappointed? (Laughter) Okay.

　　01:01

　　Have you ever ended a text with a period as a sign of aggression? Okay. Period.

　　01:10

　　Have you ever laughed or smiled when someone said something shitty to you and then spent the rest of the day wondering why you reacted that way? Yes.

　　01:23

　　Have you ever seemed to lose your airplane ticket a thousand times as you walked from the check-in to the gate? Yes.

　　01:33

　　Have you ever put on a pair of pants and then much later realized that there was a loose sock smushed up against your thigh? (Laughter) Good.

　　01:44

　　Have you ever tried to guess someone else's password so many times that it locked their account?Mmm.

　　01:53

　　Have you ever had a nagging feeling that one day you will be discovered as a fraud? Yes, it's safe here.

　　02:04

　　Have you ever hoped that there was some ability you hadn't discovered yet that you were just naturally great at? Mmm.

　　02:14

　　Have you ever broken something in real life, and then found yourself looking for an "undo" button in real life?

　　02:24

　　Have you ever misplaced your TED badge and then immediately started imagining what a three-day Vancouver vacation might look like?

　　02:34

　　Have you ever marveled at how someone you thought was so ordinary could suddenly become so beautiful?

　　02:43

　　Have you ever stared at your phone smiling like an idiot while texting with someone? Have you ever subsequently texted that person the phrase "I'm staring at the phone smiling like an idiot"?

　　03:00

　　Have you ever been tempted to, and then gave in to the temptation, of looking through someone else's phone?

　　03:08

　　Have you ever had a conversation with yourself and then suddenly realized you're a real asshole to yourself?

　　03:15

　　(Laughter)

　　03:17

　　Has your phone ever run out of battery in the middle of an argument, and it sort of felt like the phonewas breaking up with both of you?

　　03:28

　　Have you ever thought that working on an issue between you was futile because it should just be easier than this, or this is supposed to happen just naturally? Have you ever realized that very little, in the long run, just happens naturally?

　　03:46

　　Have you ever woken up blissfully and suddenly been flooded by the awful remembrance that someone had left you?

　　03:56

　　Have you ever lost the ability to imagine a future without a person that no longer was in your life? Have you ever looked back on that event with the sad smile of autumn and the realization that futures will happen regardless?

　　04:15

　　Congratulations. You have now completed the test. You are all human.

　　04:23

　　(Applause)

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