Gianmarco Soresi
Gianmarco Vincent Soresi is an American stand-up comedian, actor, podcaster, and internet personality. He is known for his observational comedy and includes themes of everyday life, pop culture, and current events in his stand-up performances.
Early life
Soresi was born on August 20, 1988, in Maryland to an Italian father and a Jewish mother. His parents divorced shortly after his birth. He attended Georgetown Day School and later earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theater from the University of Miami in 2011.He also participated in Birthright Israel, a free ten-day trip to Israel for young Jewish adults between the ages of 18 and 26.
Career
Stand-up comedy
After completing college, Soresi moved to New York to pursue comedy and acting full-time. He began performing stand-up comedy in 2016. In 2020, he released his first half-hour of material, Shelf Life. Soresi performed as a part of the "New Faces" showcase at the 2022 Just for Laughs festival in Montreal, hosted by Pete Holmes; Holmes called him "one of the funniest comedians in the world."Soresi made his late-night debut on The Late Late Show with James Corden on November23, 2022. He appeared on Netflix's Verified Stand-Up, which the New York Times covered, calling Soresi "a Jewish comic who alternates between silkily feline physicality and frenetic gesticulation." He also performed sets for Don’t Tell Comedy and on Comedy Central, winning Season 8 of Amazon’s Comics Watching Comics . Soresi appeared in a season seven episode of the comedy panel game show Game Changer alongside comedians Jeff Arcuri and Josh Johnson. The episode was spun-off into an original comedy game-show called Crowd Control. Soresi returned for the show's first season.
He released his first full-length comedy special "Thief of Joy" which the New York Times called "superb" on YouTube on September 19, 2025, the same week that he performed a stand-up set on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Soresi’s sold-out Edinburgh Fringe 2025 run included a last-minute addition of a show at McEwan Hall, a venue with an occupancy of over 1,000. He was called “a Fringe force to watch” by Edinburgh Festival Magazine and The National, which gave his show five stars, stated he “charmed the crowd within seconds”.
His accomplishments in 2025 landed him on Deadline's "Comics Who Won 2025" which names impressive feats done in the year including performing 119 sold-out shows, doubling his social media following, and selling out all of his shows on his Asian tour so fast that the promoters remarked to his team “Gianmarco Soresi’s show is one of the fastest selling shows we’ve had in almost a quarter of a century in the business.”
Other ventures
Soresi hosts The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi, an interview-based comedy podcast produced by Headgum co-hosted with actor and comedian Russell Daniels. He is a member of the sketch comedy group Uncle Function. He has made appearances in films such as Hustlers, and in episodes of The Last O.G. and Blue Bloods.Personal life
Soresi previously lived in New York City on the Lower East Side, near the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, before temporarily moving to Los Angeles in January 2025, just as the wildfires broke out. He currently resides in the Dumbo area of Brooklyn with his longtime girlfriend, Tovah Silbermann, a talent manager whom he has been dating since 2020. He describes himself as a cultural Jew.Accolades
- 2022 – New Faces of Comedy, Just For Laughs
- 2024 – Comedians You Should and Will Know, Vulture
- 2024 – The Future Of Funny: 15 Comedians Ready To Break Out In 2025, Deadline
- 2025 – 10 Comics to Watch for 2025, Variety
- 2025 – Comics Who Won 2025, ''Deadline''