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On Friday, Sept. 19, Gianmarco Soresi launched his first stand-up particular…again.
The prolific stand-up comic — who claims to be “the first male comedian to do standup on ‘The Tonight Show’ wearing shorts” — technically put out a quantity of specials before dropping the wonderful, 67-minute “Thief of Joy.”
There’s his well timed 2020 “Shelf Life” filmed during the depths of COVID. One might also make an argument that his November 2022 spot on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” matches the invoice as a debut particular. That same case works for his 15-minute set “A Little Something Special.” Or his “Don’t Tell” set.
Clearly, there are loads of choices for the fearless performer who’s keen to go after both sides of the political aisle with a smile.
Yet, if you’re trying for the best illustration of Soresi’s abilities, you need not look additional than his aforementioned, career-spanning “Thief of Joy,” which distills the 37-year-old’s abilities into a neat bundle nimbly crisscrossing from punchline-heavy personal tales about his ailing father with a a lot youthful girlfriend to a controversial tattoo his girlfriend disapproves of to a showstopping “Law and Order” act-out that effortlessly combines gallows humor with mundane observations.
“This was a real amalgamation of chunks from my first year, bigger stories that have been fine-tuned over the years and bits from the last six months,” Soresi told The Post in an exclusive interview.
“Some people are more familiar with my crowd work, and I think they’ll be pleasantly surprised that this is more of a joke special. Basically, the idea was, ‘if you didn’t know me, this is your intro to my taste, who I am, how I feel, and a good preview of what you’re going to get if you ever see me live.’”
And, if you do need to see him live, he’s in some way already back pounding the pavement with headlining reveals all over the nation from September through December this yr, including 5 gigs at Buffalo’s Helium Comedy Club from Sept. 25-27 adopted by six at Philadelphia’s Punch Line from Oct. Sep 11.
“I’m going to put on a full show,” he told us. “I’m able to fuse being someone who moves with obsessive joke writing to deliver an elevated standup experience.”
Curious what the second particular particular (or fifth? Who’s counting?) seems life?
You’re in the best place, Gianmarco-maniacs.
We have every little thing you need to know and more about Soresi’s upcoming tour as effectively as an interview that consists of a really wild story about a set that virtually ended his stand-up profession less than a yr into slinging jokes on the stage.
Gianmarco Soresi tour schedule
An entire calendar including all tour dates, venues and hyperlinks to the most cost effective tickets obtainable could be discovered below.
Gianmarco Soresi tour datesSept. 25 at the Helium Comedy Club in Buffalo, NY
8 p.m. showSept. 26 at the Helium Comedy Club in Buffalo, NY
7:30 p.m. showSept. 26 at the Helium Comedy Club in Buffalo, NY
9:15 p.m. showSept. 27 at the Helium Comedy Club in Buffalo, NY
7 p.m. showSept. 27 at the Helium Comedy Club in Buffalo, NY
9:30 p.m. showOct. 9 at the Punch Line in Philadelphia, PA
7:30 p.m. showOct. 9 at the Punch Line in Philadelphia, PA
9:45 p.m. showOct. 10 at the Punch Line in Philadelphia, PA
7:30 p.m. showOct. 10 at the Punch Line in Philadelphia, PA
9:45 p.m. showOct. 11 at the Punch Line in Philadelphia, PA
7 p.m. showOct. 11 at the Punch Line in Philadelphia, PA
9:15 p.m. showOct. 14 at the Improv Comedy Club in Ontario, CA
8 p.m. showOct. 30 at the Bourbon Theatre in Lincoln, NE
7 p.m. showOct. 31 at the Funny Bone in West Des Moines, IA
7 p.m. showNov. 1 at the Funny Bone in West Des Moines, IA
6:30 p.m. showNov. 1 at the Funny Bone in West Des Moines, IA
9 p.m. showNov. 7 at the Funny Bone in Richmond, VA
7 p.m. showNov. 7 at the Funny Bone in Richmond, VA
9:45 p.m. showNov. 8 at the Funny Bone in Richmond, VA
6:30 p.m. showNov. 8 at the Funny Bone in Richmond, VA
9:15 p.m. showNov. 13 at Comedy Works in Denver, CO
7:30 p.m. showNov. 14 at Comedy Works in Denver, CO
9:15 p.m. showNov. 15 at Comedy Works in Denver, CO
9:15 p.m. showNov. 21 at the Funny Bone in Kansas City, MO
7 p.m. showNov. 21 at the Funny Bone in Kansas City, MO
9:45 p.m. showNov. 22 at the Funny Bone in Kansas City, MO
6:30 p.m. showNov. 22 at the Funny Bone in Kansas City, MO
9:15 p.m. showNov. 23 at the Ozark Music Hall in Fayetteville, AR
7 p.m. showDec. 4 at the Fort Lauderdale Improv in Dania Beach, FL
7:30 p.m. showDec. 5 at the Fort Lauderdale Improv in Dania Beach, FL
7:30 p.m. showDec. 5 at the Fort Lauderdale Improv in Dania Beach, FL
10 p.m. showDec. 6 at the Fort Lauderdale Improv in Dania Beach, FL
7 p.m. showDec. 6 at the Fort Lauderdale Improv in Dania Beach, FL
9:30 p.m. showDec. 7 at The Wooly in Gainesville, FL
TBDDec. 14 at the Knitting Factory Concert House in Boise, ID
8 p.m. showDec. 18 at the Improv Comedy Club in Pittsburgh, PA
7 p.m. showDec. 19 at the Improv Comedy Club in Pittsburgh, PA
7 p.m. showDec. 19 at the Improv Comedy Club in Pittsburgh, PA
9:30 p.m. showDec. 20 at the Improv Comedy Club in Pittsburgh, PA
6:30 p.m. showDec. 20 at the Improv Comedy Club in Pittsburgh, PA
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Gianmarco Soresi interview
Per week forward of the release of “Thief of Joy,” we chatted with Soresi for a good half hour. Here’s what the freewheeling comedian had to say.
Do you may have a favourite second or bit from the particular that obtained left on the cutting room ground?
Yeah. It was initially 80 minutes. We cut a lot. We cut a joke that I’ve been doing since my first yr that I fearful I’d put out an excessive amount of.
It’s about my father. He’s Italian and we kiss each other goodbye. One day, my roommate requested “do you kiss each other in public?” And I said “yeah, it’d be weird if I only kissed him in private.”
My girlfriend, who is also my supervisor, is my guiding mild in phrases of telling me “I think that’s been done” in a means that it might really feel like an viewers member may assume “I’ve already heard that part.” So, I left it out.
But, some of these jokes I’ve had since I began standup and I might level to every bit of it where I hadn’t yet discovered how to ship the strains to their fullest potential.
What are you bringing to the stage when you’re on the street these days?
I’m retiring all the fabric from this particular [“Thief of Joy”]. So, proper now, I’m speaking about artificial intelligence and the methods it appears like A.I. and robotics have moved past serving to human beings.
I attempt to paint my dad in a more optimistic mild because I discovered he’s been on Ashley Madison and a quantity of other relationship apps. A girl reached out to me and said she determined to not to date my father partially because of my jokes. So I had to attempt and readjust that so I can get a new stepmom.
In this past particular, I talked about egg freezing, now I’m speaking more about the philosophy of bringing another human life into this world. What variety of dad or mum would I be? Do I would like to get married? What are the implications of getting married, not married?
And I discuss about how COVID shifted our tradition to the purpose that it informed what our authorities is now. I’m attempting to seize those reflections with a little bit of distance.
You’ve turn into considerably recognized for crowd work. Is that still a large half of your show when people see you on the street?
It’s dependent on the format of the space.
If you’re in a theater, the people in the back can’t hear. Still, I always attempt to incorporate it to a sure degree. It makes it thrilling for me. I hate doing the same factor over and over. I can’t guarantee how a lot crowd work can be there. I can guarantee you may be getting at least 80% of materials.
I often discover that you possibly can do crowd work for two minutes, and if it’s great, the viewers can have gotten their repair. They obtained to really feel that they have been half of one thing that only occurred on this show, that was dangerous.
Why ought to people come see you live?
I’m going to put on a full show.
Once there was a New York comedy membership booker who didn’t cross me because they said I used to be too “one-man show.” I told my mates at the time “I can mumble. I can f—ing stand still.” And I actually don’t assume I can.
I’m ready to ship a lot. Even if I am going to Europe and the viewers members don’t absolutely perceive all the jokes, they admire how animated I’m.
Now that I’ve the stage and time, I’m ready to fuse being a one-man show with somebody who strikes with somebody who makes use of the space with obsessive joke writing to ship an elevated standup expertise.
Is there any new joke you’re significantly excited about?
They’re all so darkish out of context.
Rather a lot of my past work was about my dad and mom being divorced and growing up with divorced dad and mom. And now I’ve a bit about how I’d be so good at getting divorced and theorizing the teachings I realized of how I’d manipulate my youngster to love me over the other dad or mum.
From the degree of how to navigate custody to which days of the week you need to how to emotionally gerrymander your youngster’s life.
What’s your writing course of these days?
I’m fairly obsessive. I report every single set and then put it into a transcription app that permits me to look at the textual content and decide up at any level. I’ve three different Word paperwork going.
One is completed materials that I look through, but often that’s all burnt. I keep it more as a library of my ideas.
The second is every little thing I’m working on proper now, which I’m attempting to consolidate.
Then, I’ve another one that’s 180 pages of stray ideas that aren’t going wherever. It’s finally this gargantuan mess that will never be sorted out until I’m compelled to do the next hour.
If somebody wished to start listening to your podcast today, what episode would you say they need to start with?
Yamaneika Saunders was unimaginable, but it’s the Yamaneika show. She’s wonderful but that’s not essentially going to offer you a style of what we do. One we just put out with Jinkx Monsoon is a good combine of riffing but is also severe and political.
Who is the average Gianmarco fan?
Neurodivergent, early twenties with a cane that you’re not sure if they really need it or it’s a stylistic selection. I wouldn’t have it any other means.
Is there one half you have been up for that you would like you had gotten?
I auditioned for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” 12 f—ing instances and never obtained it.
Another show I auditioned for but never obtained was “Orange is the New Black.” The function I auditioned for was the lead singer of an all-white Roots cowl band. Just two strains.
I did a lot of research and the audition went rather well. On the way in which out, my supervisor at the time called and said, “bad news. They canceled the audition. They found an actual all-white Roots cover band so they don’t need the role anymore.”
Do you may have a favourite story from the street?
In my first yr, I obtained employed to do a 30-minute roast of a 50-year-old man who was having his second bachelor celebration. There have been 12 people at a non-public steak home in Long Island. There was no stage. I used to be sporting a swimsuit from H&M. They have been all sporting shorts and t-shirts, very informal.
There was nowhere for me to sit. They requested if I wished a drink and I said “I’ll take a wine.” One of the fellows responded “you want a straw with that, you p—-?” They all laughed.
Then, I made enjoyable of this heavy man and after two minutes, he was like “enough with the fat jokes.”
That’s all I had. So, I made enjoyable of his fiancee, and he said, “her son’s right there.” Then, they began eating. I used to be just staring at the clock and at 26 minutes I used to be like “that’s good enough.”
They would have been within their proper to not pay me. What they wished was for his fiancee to say “you can go to a strip club.” Instead that they had to deal with me. I might have stop standup after that. It was so humiliating.
Do you may have any thought if they’re still together?
I hope not. Just in the hopes that I get employed for another gig.
What’s next for you other than standup?
This is every comic’s conundrum now. I might movie another hour proper now.
But also I ask myself “am I going to finish the treatment of the movie with my co-host and friend Russell? Am I going to write some TV show pitches?”
That’s where it’s at. I’m getting more auditions now. How a lot time do I put into that? I’d love to play the lead singer of an all-white Roots cowl band on a different TV show.
This interview has been calmly edited for size and readability.
Huge comedians on tour in 2025
We requested Gianmarco to suggest a few of his favourite comics. Here’s who he said got here to thoughts.
When people describe me as theatrical, I feel about Chris Fleming and really feel like Steven Wright. He takes you on a journey into a world.
Geoffrey Asmus, I love a lot.
Jeselnik for sure.
Maria Bamford, of course.
Yamaneika is always great to watch.
Daniel Simonsen is superb.
Who else is out and about? Take a look at our record of all the largest comedians on tour in 2025 to discover the show for you.
This article was written by Matt Levy, New York Post live occasions reporter. Levy stays up-to-date on all the latest tour bulletins from your favourite musical artists and comedians, as effectively as Broadway openings, sporting occasions and more live reveals – and finds great ticket costs online. Since he began his tenure at the Post in 2022, Levy has reviewed a Bruce Springsteen live performance and interviewed Melissa Villaseñor of SNL fame, to title a few. Please notice that offers can expire, and all costs are subject to change
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