Best of Amsterdam Crowd Work | Gianmarco Soresi | Stand Up Comedy Crowd Work

[@GianmarcoSoresi]

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[@doctorsteevo]

OMG! When are you back to Europe?

[@jamiemiller5616]

Wait... Girlfriend, Boyfriend & Wife !!!???

[@immortalsun]

I don’t think the barista guy understood the bookcase joke 😭

[@mochiboy7750]

right he asked for the joke to be explained... live 😂😂😂

[@gus_viei]

what i gathered is that he thought the reaction of the crowd interrupted the joke, that's why he said "they were done", so that Gianmarco could finish.

[@micahrobbins8353]

Fellas I'm gonna be honest I don't get it either. Surely it's like a Hitler joke right?

[@pieluva37]

That’s so funny the thought that he basically was like “yea, I don’t think there OTHER people got it, ha ha. Maybe you should explain it… for THEM 😅” lmaooo

[@aatheeswarank7025]

wait i dont get it either 😭please explain

[@eserdeniz1501]

I was at the 22:00 show and i was laughing my ass off. You were the first stand up comedian i saw live, so thank you for taking my stand up show virginity!

[@aurelien5747]

Mannn I hope he takes mine too

[@susibakha]

Please guys, don't use the term virginity out of context 😂. It's kinda cringe 😅

[@LuckyLatharn]

​@@susibakha This comment wasn't made for your personal approval :)

[@CarMedicine]

​@@susibakha "out of context"? i think 32 words before "virginity" is fine enough context. i mean, what do you want them to do, write an essay? XD

[@ClaudioMartella]

which club was this?

[@RandomGlow444]

That was actually quiet masterful given the crowd. 👏🏼 👏🏼

[@LukeStation]

For everyone who thinks this may be a tough crowd, this is just what Dutch people are like universally. They don't wanna interrupt the set with their own noise so they stop laughing as soon as they hear a new thing You should see Dutch TV/Late Night shows, the crowd is nothing like in America, they only laugh in bursts when prompted it's kinda crazy

[@Seraphim262]

So, worse than German?

[@aydinbiber7616]

​@@Seraphim262Good enough to win WW2

[@Matty002]

​@richard.3340not all nerds are introverts!

[@DizzyBusy]

@@Seraphim262 Yes. What makes it worse is that the Dutch think they're so much better than the Germans

[@sleepingcity85]

As a german: The happy ending joke was cringe.

[@Drcats69]

2:10 " you want to interrupt the show. You are now part of the show!" Energy right here

[@kryptonsa36]

"UX" is PEAK millennial, and not knowing what that is is the most alienating thing I've ever heard you say 😂

[@AlenAbdula]

If he added UI to UX heads would have exploded!

[@Nightraven26]

Don’t know if I classify as millenial as I was born in 1995, but I’ve never heard of UX

[@AlenAbdula]

@@Nightraven26 the term has been popularized during web2.0 era starting around 2000's in web/app design and development community. It tried to create specialized field out of something every designer and developer already does, usually working with research and development department. Branded as "User Experience" it focused on creating user interfaces and overall experience by assigning conversion metrics, usually driven by marketing department. I was born in 84.

[@wmhfv992]

@@Nightraven26 You are a young millennial like me, I was also born in 1995. UX is really not peak millennial, it's just industry/corporate speak. Like how outside of plumbing/trades, people don't know what PEX is. And outside of medicine, most laypeople don't know what AMA means.

[@MusicsObsession]

Hi Gianmarco, I was there in that specific show in Amsterdam! :) So happy to see it now :)

[@immortalsun]

But you already saw it!

[@TheSpaceMomma]

“That’s enough” was the best response to that 😂😂😂

[@God_Is_An_Atheist]

You were in Amsterdam and I missed it, damn. That was probably the best chance I had to see you live. Well, I hope you come back to Europe one day (maybe Germany next time 😉).

[@Reismiilch]

he was in Berlin and it was a sold out show :)

[@God_Is_An_Atheist]

@@Reismiilch Well, Amsterdam is actually closer to where I live than Berlin 😄. I'm just hoping that I don't miss him next time he's here.

[@sebastian-benedictflore]

Same, as a Londoner. I had no clue he was coming

[@TheKillahKyla]

He was in Berlin the day after this show

[@ACWhoCares2]

Haha a year later here and I feel you all...but to be fair I think 2024 was the first year that made me go "Mhm actually maybe I should (have been) go(ing) to at least 1 live-comedy show before the world completley im-&-eplodes!" 😂 😂 I am a bit bumped I didn't have all of this on my "nonexisting" "bucket-list".

[@zwolfsmub5008]

This was honestly pretty funny not sure what the comments are referring to. The sex work bit can be uncomfortable, but i think that's part of what makes it funny really.

[@chimichanga3405]

I love your comedy sooo much if you're ever back in Europe please come to Dublin!!

[@Iflie]

I thought the sex work story was fun but I just expected something to conclude it in the silence and I think the rest of the dutch crowd did too, it was the "and now we listen carefully " silence not a "this is terrible" one. It's not as if the crowd is uncomfortable about the topic.

[@Uathe]

So like, developable 😂

[@Iflie]

@@Uathe It may work just fine inthe U.S, the dutch including myself (especially students) have the tendency to go into quiet lecture mode when we try to really pay attention to the story. Live listening to english can still be a bit more tricky than OL. I can just rewind it on here but I'd be trying to pay attention in that room. That's why some stand ups think it's not working but in actuality the dutch are trying to pay attention. One australian comic even remarked on them laughing when they didn't get it, which is another of the polite things they do. Though most of the time they do understand some may not get a less common word.

[@StAmander]

@@Iflie I’m American but know some Dutch folks, and I felt that.

[@Iflie]

@@StAmander I've spend a lot of time in school and this is exactly what happens when you're laughing and then you feel you have to pay attention now.

[@StAmander]

@@Iflie oh definitely, while English is my first language, I’m HOH so I felt the Dutch on that. I also know they are far less prudish than Americans, so it didn’t really seem like they would stop laughing because of the sw joke.

[@tsurin3646]

I think there is a lot of things in the mix which make some people think this is an 'awkward' moment: 1. Dutch people don't really easily laugh out loud even though they think a joke is funny. 2. We do have the laugh short and shut up listen because we don't wanna miss anything or be the loudest in the room. (we don't wanna stand out negatively because people in the Netherlands WILL call you out for it in a harsh and honest way) 3. With the sex and pot tourism it is a very double negative feeling we experience. Because we are not proud at those two things and they overshadow what else we have or could be known for. 4. Since we are a small country which just has usually less to offer for material we kinda have a 'sigh response' to these kind of jokes being introduced by people who are not related in any way to the Dutch culture. See it as an over-exposed response and not that a joke didn't land or we don't like such jokes, more of a 'I've heard this one yesterday, the day before that and last week' so it just has less of an impact. I do really love Gainmarco Soresi! But as a Dutch peron it is kinda sit through the sex and pot jokes to get to the good parts of the show! Again not saying it is bad material just overly exposed to those kind of jokes!

[@dtrbst]

I'm not surprised at the lukewarm reception of the happy ending segment. Amsterdam residents (at least the type that goes to a show like this) kind of look down on sex tourists, especially the ones that seek out clandestine sex work. Wasn't at the show, so this video is all I have to go on, but it honestly felt like you mistook the city's international reputation for its local culture in this case. No love lost, though!

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

Especially because he just admitted on stage that he let himself be ripped off just like a rookie sex tourist indeed. 100€ on top of the 75€ for a hand Job? No way in hell.

[@TonyDootjes]

Hope you are enjoying my country Gianmarco, have a wonderfull time!

[@6lu5ky86]

I love you Gianmarco!!!! 🧡

[@saraoctenjak389]

This had me lauging out loud the entire timeeeeeee

[@Froobyone]

Wish I'd have seen you in London, but I'm in the north of England and it's miles away. If you ever do visit the heathen north, I'll try to pop along.

[@pebblefattree6404]

the plot twist in the end almost made me fall out of my chair of laughter holy shit

[@probablyaddictedtoyoutube]

Dutchy here and the crowd was enjoying but its rude to interupt, even with lots of laughter lol so it was well recieved

[@mrbusinesss1]

Thanks for posting this one! Wanted to go to this show so bad but I couldn't make it 😭

[@kevonvideo]

Appreciated the English subtitles 🙏. It looks like a decent premium economy, a little more premium than Lufthansa’s offer due to the separation from the economy cabin and Sky Priority. Looking forward to try it out myself.

[@Jonh1138]

I was in your first show that night! was fantastic! I was REALLY hoping youll get around to question me XD next time I guess

[@saal0]

Everyone talking about a tough crowd but bro got applause even at the end. I think we're just not as "loud" if that makes sense?

[@James-wn9qc]

BABE NEW GIANMARCO COMEDY VIDEO JUST DROPPED!!!

[@jakeehrlich8113]

The 1k euro joke at the end was hysterical. I think the crowd was just tough and they didn’t get it.

[@ellem8990]

Wait was there anything more to it other than being expensive and how there are often hidden fees? Like does the number actually have some other point to it?

[@kylejohnson6775]

Was there a bounty paid for betraying Anne Frank? I also didn't get it and now I'm curious

[@joespkr8715]

Answer please

[@salma-vl2qf]

I didnt get it either lmao

[@perhapsyes2493]

I guess I'll just state my thoughts on it? This goes too far into awkward territory because he's speaking about himself in the first person? I'm not even sure if he's telling the truth or just a story. Like, I'm looking at you on a stage, I don't need to visualize that kind of stuff right now ...

[@bettycrockerbake]

you came to the Netherlands AND Germany and I missed it? FINE I'll SIGN THAT TEXT LIST ps. can I apply for two locations?

[@ammcello]

Wow that was damn good.

[@LastPersephone]

Can’t believed I missed this!! 😭😭 I have been sending videos of you to my friends for the past 6 months. Let’s get you more famous than Matt Riffle…❤

[@ignorasmus]

Frankfurt / Munich please! Also, not being on any social media other than KZbin comments (If one could call it that), I had no idea you are coming to Europe 😕

[@TheKillahKyla]

I found out about his Berlin show from the pinned comment he leaves on all of his videos about his upcoming shows. Luckily I got tickets! Great show!

[@ignorasmus]

@@TheKillahKyla Thanks for the tip! I never paid attention 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂ I see it now.

[@saal0]

Bro was HERE 😭 AND I MISSED IT

[@cyanalien1238]

Hope you can come back sometime 😊

[@maxwellsage7422]

I won't tolorate this Maine slander! (4:00) Although I speak a bit of german and would love to go to Germany, the Netherlands, and Norway lol

[@oakblaze433]

Lol Maine is beautiful but I think he just doesn't like rural areas, which I get.

[@lisshartley]

⁠@@oakblaze433but it’s not all rural! Dude needs to play a show there if he hasn’t.

[@letheas6175]

The USian in the crowd was so right!

[@truenestpie]

I can't believe I missed you

[@bjarkisteinnpetursson9736]

Brennan Lee Mulligan would love this

[@JJ-fr2ki]

1:52 I hear the hotdogs are good but not kosher.

[@ivy_angels]

Love your work in the States but you gotta do better than being a stereotypical tourist in Amsterdam to get a laugh from them. Most people are tired of tourists only talking about weed and sex work here so I get why you didn't get many laughs on those topics. Next time try to get a feel for your surroundings and talk about a couple weird buildings or interactions you've had with natives while you were there. I promise you you'll have a way easier time at it then whatever this was.

[@dylanbuchman8128]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TheSpaceMomma]

YESSS a longer form video from Giannmarco please we need more of these

[@suncore_]

2:22

[@Fredreegz]

Not surprised the sex tourism story didn’t go down well. They’re probably not amazed by that. I think it would’ve been better to carry on making fun of cultural things like the Dutch brutal honesty. From watching Dutch comedians, that’s something they seem to enjoy laughing at themselves about.

[@lucicahuette]

I think there is something shameful about paying someone for having sex with you, knowing they don't have any desire for it. I would feel so bad if I was having sex with someone who doesn't want to. I don't care if it's their job, I think it's a very sad job and I don't want to participate in that. There is something terrifying about this amount of capitalism. In my country and my moral, sex is not something you should be able to pay or sell, just like organs, blood, gametes, love or friendship. It's something about humanism and the limits we shall put on money.

[@nj.7325]

If sex workers have more rights, they can get on to more jobs, but some people (very few) have actually said that it can be a fulfilling job if they are respected and have a lot of choice. I think in an ideal world it should be up to the person, and it's the society's duty to make SURE their dignity and safety is not jeopardized because they engage in sex work. Also, it is unfortunately some people's last resort to get out of some really bad positions. Ultimately it's the workers who need the support the most.

[@Firode9856]

He’s a comedian. It was a joke..

[@FirstNameBunchANumbers]

Lots of people enthusiastically choose to go into sex work and enjoy it because it can be fulfilling on top of keeping them financially stable. Survival sex work just to make ends meet is something else entirely. I think it should still be protected especially if community resources were available in a non judgemental way for the sworkers themselves

[@elizabethhatesyoutube]

​​@@FirstNameBunchANumbers "lots of people do it enthusiastically" does not really fundamentally change the moral issue. if it's wrong to sell and buy sex, it's still wrong if everyone involved is happy about it. a person's body and intimacy are not or rather should not be products, ful stop imo. doesn't change that sex workers need certain protections or that for instance in the united states it should be decriminalized but these are material, practical policy issues that are in my opinion separate from the moral dilemma that is the sex work itself.

[@HemantKumar-id3jg]

Sex is not always about love or an intense emotion. Sometimes it's just a need. Sure, many sex workers mostly do this job because of some kind of trauma or desperation but it's a job. Don't see anything morally wrong with buying or selling sex. It's just like a service.

[@katherinedobias7499]

Some European people don't laugh even when they find something funny. I know it's strange, but I think in some cultures, especially ex-soviet places they were taught not to show too many emotions. This is in someone else's words who's from an ex-soviet country. Anyway, I lived in Europe for a bit, and when I would tell a joke or when I laugh, i'd ask why no one else was, and they'd say oh we didn't? It's funny. I really enjoyed that, I didn't realize that I didn't laugh. They can mask themselves really well without even knowing it. I'm sure the crowd enjoyed your show, whether they laughed or not. They're definitely laughing on the inside.

[@mynamejeff3545]

Famous humorless ex-soviet countries, Germany and the Netherlands

[@ellem8990]

I'm from a non ex soviet country and I would say that that's a thing here as well, so probably has nothing to do with being ex soviet. Also like the other commentor pointed out, netherlands and germany aren't ex soviet countries either. There is some other reason why many europeans don't laugh, perhaps because in some cases it can be considered inconsiderate so that kind of gets stuck even when it's ok to laugh. Meaning that laughter is often loud, people can get paranoid about who you're laughing at and a lot of people can see displays of emotion as inconsiderate to people around them (including PDA). This is at least my experience in my country.

[@katherinedobias7499]

@@ellem8990 there was still a communist presence in those countries. Most people I've spoken to in Europe, whenever referring to some problem of a country that's existed for some time gets blamed on communism and world wars.

[@lauralvw8445]

​@@katherinedobias7499is I think Americans are just obsessed with blaming everything on communism. And they are loud and have a different sense of humor. I don't think the crowd was though in comparison to how funny he was

[@katherinedobias7499]

@@lauralvw8445 I didn't know Americans did that. I mainly heard people from Europe when I was there for 3 years tell me about the damage communism has caused to locals who still carry out some of the communistic culture today. I've been to Germany, Czech Republic, France, Italy, and I've chatted with people from Austria, Slovakia, Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. Lots of people are pretty frozen there and don't have a great sense of humor. When they saw how cheerful and smiling someone is they think they're drunk or stupid. It's a cultural thing. You just don't smile in public or they'll think you're weird. Not everyone is like that. I'm a teacher and I was teaching Czech students something from a British English File textbook and they had a page on there describing the same thing I'm talking about. There was an audio file of a couple, one from England and one from Russia and they talked about how you just don't go around on the streets in Moscow smiling or saying good morning or hi. It's frowned upon by some people.

[@shhgobacktosleep8166]

this is the first video of yours i watched where you said "i'm just kidding" after being mean to someone in the audience

[@lexdiluca1221]

Now when the Germans asked "why" did they say "warum" or "wieso" or...

[@noone-bt2dm]

Even the American had the Ajax flag for Amsterdam 💪

[@omkarchavan5940]

This was the best? 😬 Mybe not the best crowd.

[@Juice4Y0U]

Dutch ppl can be a bit stiff and shy at shows sometimes (in my own Dutch opinion)😅

[@dtrbst]

@@Juice4Y0U Or maybe Soresi went for the low-hanging fruit, which lead to jokes that have been told countless of times, just in a slightly different fashion. I could see the €1000,- towel joke coming from a mile away and "what if Anne Frank was on social media" has been done in an attempt to tell her story to younger generations since Hyves existed.. I love his work, but this is easily some of his worst material, imho.

[@Juice4Y0U]

​​@@dtrbstI have to agree on that, for me the specific Dutch jokes didn't do it for me. I normally love all his jokes. Maybe the audience was too quiet to play back and forth like he normally does really well. Or I'll have to go see him in another country 😂

[@momojojokoko]

"A growth" would be funnier than "a bump" for that "that's your penis" joke. But you can do better than a joke like that, surely.

[@AylaMarianna]

gekoloniseerd

[@Gaspardicles]

people being obnoxious about the sex tourism story need to take a chill pill this man is constantly taking shots at himself for our enjoyment, calm down y’all geez that shit was funny

[@KerryLuckett]

American comedy, unfortunately, is not for everyone. In the 90s, I trained a team of Germans who could not understand why everyone here loved The Simpsons, so…

[@MusicsObsession]

We love Simpsons in Germany. The 90s were long ago :D

[@nina-mariethomas7500]

Genius comedy totally wasted on them!

[@HollieTash]

The crowd's enthusiasm dying when the happy ending massage bit starts..yeah, same. Sex work is work but also imagine being that gleeful and not ashamed telling the story, there wasn't even a joke in there just another dude talking about his penis and the underpaid overseas workers they seek out.

[@AlenAbdula]

​@joelleweetjewel9948the story could have been made up or embellished. Comedy is theater, its exaggeration.

[@lucicahuette]

​@joelleweetjewel9948 I think there is something shameful about paying someone for having sex with you, knowing they don't have any desire for it. I would feel so bad if I was having sex with someone who doesn't want to. I don't care if it's their job, I think it's a very sad job and I don't want to participate in that. There is something terrifying about this amount of capitalism. In my country and my moral, sex is not something you should be able to pay or sell, just like organs, blood, gametes, love or friendship. It's something about humanism and the limits we should put on money.

[@Uathe]

Too many unnecessary specifics need more silly

[@TheKillahKyla]

I doubt it actually happened at all. I bet he declined the happy ending 😅

[@saal0]

175 euros doesnt sound too underpaid to me 😂 chill, sex workers have rights here.