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Zach Anner Thanks the Internet

submitted by Kevlar

1 decade 4 years 5 months 1 week ago

Description via the NY Mag Vulture blog and companion/followup to Sarzy's excellent post:

Over the weekend, the world was introduced to Zach Anner, a young man with cerebral palsy — "the sexiest of the palsies" — via his hilarious video entry to Oprah's Search for the Next TV Star contest. The entry, a pitch for a show "designed to inspire people who never thought they could travel," quickly gained traction on Digg, Reddit, and various Internet aggretators, and has by now earned a likely unbeatable 2.6 million votes (the current No. 2 has 1.3 million). Which is great, because he is awesome.

But wait — it gets better! While word spread of his awesomeness, Anner was actually out of town and had no idea any of it was happening. But his brother did, so when Anner returned home, his brother and a friend casually mentioned that Anner had gotten a few more votes on his Oprah entry, and that he should go check it out. And they filmed his reaction. (It comes in the middle of this "thank you, Internet!" post Anner put up yesterday.)

11 Comments

videosiftbannedme

What the BALLS is this?!

*promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, June 15th, 2010 4:12am PDT - promote requested by videosiftbannedme.

Happy for the guy. I hope Oprah keeps her word and gives him a show.

I love this guy so much.

I want to be more like this guy. What an awesome attitude and genuinely hilarious too.

I want to see a three minute video of this man every week.

therealblankman

I really, honestly, sincerely would watch a show hosted by this dude. Good luck, brother.

This guy is hilarious. Just love his sense of humor!

I absolutely LOVE that this guy is just flat out funny... not popular because he is disabled, and 'gee, isn't he doing well with his problems', but he is just flat out a funny guy. I would so watch a show made by him as he demonstrates a really great demeanor and mind for creating wonderfully watchable content.

Pity us here in Australia will probably never see the show... hello Bittorrent and your wonderful use for letting people in other countries see things we otherwise would never.

Unsung_Hero says...

Zach is freaking hilarious!

His audition video is posted here , have a look and vote!

Unsung_Hero says...

He's up to 8 Marathons now! lol

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