Frank Matano is one of the new comedy show contestants available on Prime Video from April 2021, LOL: who laughs is out, hosted by Fedez and Mara Maionchi, along with other comedians such as Lillo, Caterina Guzzanti, Angelo Pintus, Ciro Priello. Let’s see below who Frank Matano is.
Who is Frank Matano: life and career
Born in 1989, Frank Matano, born Francesco Matano, was born in Santa Maria Capua Vetere in the province of Caserta on 14 September from a father originally from Carinola (also in the province of Caserta) and an American mother but of Italian parents. He attended his studies in the United States and in fact graduated from the Cranston High School East in Rhode Island. In 2007 he returned to Italy e opens the YouTube channel “Lamentecontorta” with which it immediately enjoyed great success.
His videos are mainly based on telephone jokes.
But his first real television experience came in 2009 with Hyenas, for which he worked for several years: the first time from 2009 to 2013, then in 2016 and then in 2018. After this sensational debut, his success does not stop and in 2010 he leads a program of telephone pranks on Sky entitled Sky Kidding?.
His television career continues to flourish, continuing to present or be part of comedy and entertaining programs. Since 2015 he has been a judge of the talent show Italia’s got talent and in the same year he presents Planet’s Got Talent on Sky Uno. Then in 2018 he is a competitor of the Guess my age Special edition program and in 2021 of the comedy show LOL: Who laughs is out.
From television to cinema
In addition to his television career and his success on the web with his YouTube channels (he opens another in 2013 dedicated to video games), Frank Matano makes his debut in the cinema. We find it in 2013 and 2014 respectively in the movies Brain drain and Tutto molto bello by Paolo Ruffini. And again, in 2018 in the film Tuna beached by Matteo Martinez and in 2019 in the film Beware of the gorilla directed by Luca Miniero.
But that’s not all: for the web world, he also works on web series with titles: Lost in Google of 2012, Life between roommates from 2013 to 2015 and then from 2017 to 2018, Mago Matano of 2016.