Comedian Gianmarco Soresi talks localizing punchlines, touring, and treating audience members like scene partners.
Gianmarco Soresi only sold one yarmulke during the European leg of “The Lean In Tour.” After performing in Barcelona and Edinburgh, he finished up in Dublin, where I saw him perform at Liberty Hall Theatre on May 27. Despite being rife with Jewish history—Soresi joked that Nazi punchlines hit harder in Europe because some in the audience go, “He’s talking about grandpa!”—his European shows are lacking in Jews themselves.
Crowd work is a gamble: a comedian banks on someone in the audience saying or doing something funny and hopes they can mine it for humor. While it can make for entertaining interactions, it can just as easily halt the show’s momentum. Accents can make things even trickier. One conversation with an audience member spawned a handful of German jokes before they corrected Soresi: they were from Turkey.
“I don’t want to get praise for a morally correct opinion because it’s too easy and because that’s not what people came for. I’d rather them feel my morality underneath my art than have my morality be the art itself,” he says. For Soresi, comedy shouldn’t be mere kvetching, but a joke that comments on life through absurdity and satire.
“My life feels very chaotic. My relationship feels like a long-distance relationship. just gone and suddenly don’t have a home,” Soresi shares.
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