Vittorio Angelone

because everyone's seen an opportunity to make you make a few videos and you get a bigger following

i saw a guy on tick tock i think i showed you the video it's just some little dweeby looking fella he was holding like he was at vito's show like last year and he got merchandise like his cap and he was like I was at a Vittorio Angelone show last year and I bought this hat.

And now I feel like such a mug.

He's like on the verge of tears.

So I'm kind of nervous pronouncing his name.

Vittorio Angelone.

And he is, he's been around for a while.

He's popular.

feeling of my 20s was making myself into a person that I could like.

That's Vittorio Angelone.

He's a well-known comedian, and he also presents a successful podcast.

Vittorio actually turned 30 while we were making this episode, so he's perfectly positioned to look back over the whole tumultuous sweep of his 20s.

I think when you're in your 20s, you don't know who you are, or you don't know who you're going to be.

A young man today is asked to choose between endless possible models of masculinity, each one conflicting with another, each one carrying different sorts of social pressures.

So, how is he supposed to know who to be? How is he supposed to become a man he actually likes? For BBC Radio 4 from Understand, this is Seven Ages of Man, Episode 7, Vittorio Angelone.

When I was in my early 20s, I felt very directionless.