{"id":452355,"date":"2026-05-16T19:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452355\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T19:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T19:01:18","slug":"belfast-comedian-vittorio-angelone-on-viral-penny-mordaunt-tv-spat-i-had-the-joy-of-blindsiding-her-in-a-way-she-maybe-wasnt-expecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/452355\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast comedian Vittorio Angelone on viral Penny Mordaunt TV spat: &#8216;I had the joy of blindsiding her in a way she maybe wasn\u2019t expecting&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The Irish-Italian stand-up, who recently made headlines for his takedown of the British Conservative MP on live TV, talks cancel culture, therapy and why he\u2019s in favour of a United Ireland\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Comedian Vittorio Angelone at the Gaiety Theatre. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/589f516d-4907-4fd6-a9bb-c70514ceea7a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Comedian Vittorio Angelone at the Gaiety Theatre. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cIt\u2019s a grift,\u201d comedian Vittorio Angelone says. \u201cIt\u2019s a complete grift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Angelone, who is 29, is discussing some comedians\u2019 tendency to bemoan cancel culture or claim \u2018you can\u2019t say anything any more\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Irish-Italian stand-up, who recently made headlines for his takedown of the British Conservative MP on live TV,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,9715],"class_list":["post-452355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kirsty-blake-knox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}