Francesco Matano (born 14 September 1989) is an Italian actor, presenter and voice actor. He gained notoriety in 2008 by publishing videos of telephone jokes on YouTube. He later participated in the television shows Le Iene, as an envoy and presenter, and Italia's Got Talent, as a judge.
Frank Matano was born in Santa Maria Capua Vetere from an Italian father and an American mother of Italian parents, but he grew up and lives in Carinola. During his teens he studied languages in the United States, graduating from Cranston High School East, Rhode Island. Back in Italy, starting from 2007, at the age of 18, he reaches the success on the web thanks to his YouTube channel consisting mainly of videos of telephone jokes and social experiments. Together with Willwoosh and ClioMakeUp, Matano is considered among the first and most famous Italian youtuber.
In 2009 comes the first television experience, for the program Le Iene and the following year leads a program on Sky, dedicated to telephone jokes, called Sky Scherzando ?. In 2011 he participated in the program I leave a song by Antonella Clerici, conducting short interviews with the cast boys. In 2012 he participated in the Lost in Google webseries with the JackaL and in September of the same year participated in the 2012 program before dying on La3, together with Jacopo Morini, and then appeared in the video of the song Inadequate Guy by Max Pezzali .