Performance Anxiety with Isabel Hagen | The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi

Isabel Hagen (standup comedian and violist) joins us to share the downsides of playing the viola, dealing with performance anxiety, going to Juilliard, growing up in a family of musicians, what it’s like to make your own movie about musicians, and playing in Broadway pits. Gianmarco learns that Russell can play the saxophone, and shares his skepticism about orchestra conductors.
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Gianmarco Soresi is a stand-up comedian, actor, and a little too much for some people. He’s told jokes on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Comedy Central, Netflix’s Bonding, Don’t Tell, The Real Housewives of New York for some reason, and he was a JFL New Face in 2022. He’s acted in Billy Crystal’s Here Today, Hustlers, The Last OG, and in his theater days shared the stage with some people who’ve gone on to become huge real estate agents. You can see him post the kind of crowdwork clips that are arguably destroying the artform of stand-up comedy everywhere @gianmarcosoresi and he obviously has a podcast called The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi.🎤
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[@twallace6262]

Just wanted to spread love, kindness and appreciation for your realness and levity amidst the challenges🤗

[@irmakaneli]

That email was... something, real condescending. Love this podcast, the complaining and stories. Makes me laugh out loud many times, a blast to listen 😄

[@zero11010]

You spoke about actors either pretending or actually being able to do musical things … I keep waiting for someone to talk about Whiplash from 10 years ago. It was amazing. It won a ton of awards. Miles Teller is also a drummer. JK Simmons actually has a degree in music with minors in conducting and composing.

[@blue-mc2yn]

The couch is fucking crazy lmaoooooo

[@bumpty9830]

Thank you for having the courage to speak up for justice when lives are on the line, even when "talking politics" can cost you money. Maybe leaning into spreading important messages could help you through your creative low point. The world needs people who can remind us, with a laugh, of the large-scale social problems we're usually too scared to think about, let alone discuss. Not a big deal, but I followed you. And my parents would be played by Jack Black and Katey Sagal.

[@user-im6ms1me4y]

Hi I really really enjoy seeing him happy and excited and plays are his freakin thing! if you don’t like it that’s ok but you’re in the wrong place. STOP TALKIN ABOUT YOUR PASSIONS! YOU STOP THAT!🤣👏🏾👋🏾

[@nateperdue8031]

Good to see the podcast finally coming together on episode 177

[@BrakeForLoop]

I like your theatre talk.

[@sazji]

Wow, as an okay musician with professional musician parents, and who grew up surrounded by such people with top standards, this show was almost like therapy. :-) Becausr I was always surrounded by people who were passionate and enthusiastic. Great, but it’s also wonderful to hear from someone who worked hard and moved on past the pro musician dream and is okay with it. It timely as I explore my attitudes toward music and my motives, my place in it, bla bla bla. I’ll stop now or I’ll max out my comment limit, and no good comes of that. 🙃

[@Lerkero]

4:55 - Great intro to the podcast. That went deep. As an aside, that couch is too small for 2 people to sit together for over an hour. Looks too intimate

[@zero11010]

The great thing about Crashing (I’m a big Pete Holmes fan … and still found it hard to watch) was that they took established successful bits and actually went out of their way to make them less polished to show his growth as a comedian. It was great! They took WONDERFUL bits and made minor adjustments to them and showed how big of a deal timing and delivery can be. How big of a deal a small verbiage change can be. I get your point about how it would be more realistic to do the same bit over and over. But, that’s less watchable. They didn’t even do that in Sienfeld’s Comedian movie. You don’t show the same joke over and over. Too few in the audience will appreciate that level of detail in showing a joke that’s stopped being funny for the viewer but it’s becoming a better and better bit after the 4th or 10th time it was told.

[@dliap98]

a violist! what a day

[@alyndavis]

I love the love seat 😂 and thanks for bringing some joy to this week. That email is crazy to send a Jewish person. Like are you serious? Crazy. Hope you’re well everyone who reads this!

[@stephben8042]

I love hearing Gianmarcos real feelings about things that he feels he isn’t supposed to say

[@yramismynamenowdealwithit]

Hey Gianmarco, I like your backpack 💖

[@Rebecca_Zhang]

Wow what an intro!!

[@kittyzilla3]

I saw something about the spice girls, I don’t remember where… Apparently it was a lovestory between two of them- at least for one it was love… So that’s why when it was over - it was over….

[@planningpersonlaidbackdeep1273]

A question.. how does she find jobs? Is there a violist/violinist union site where members are listed or?

[@wynoglia]

Gianmarco's backpack is super cute Edit: banger opener email :)

[@peakdelvalle197]

I'm a classically trained singer and I disagree to an extent with the assertion that you "can't just learn to sing". It won't be done in an hour, but almost anyone can be taught the right technique and sound pretty good, it isn't something you have to have unreal talent to do. I think its sad that capitalism and the marketing of stars has convinced us all we can't sing, when people used to just sing together to enjoy life and pass the time

[@vessel5965]

I miss the brown couch for you guys , grey is great for rhe guest 🧿✨ color be damned or .... Dye it ?

[@haticeakgul5950]

Dont worry, im biggest fan of you, you didn’t lose anyone

[@Zomonitan]

I love how that emailer really thought that Gianmarco would be upset to lose a pro Palestinian genocide listener 🤪

[@Ineffable_gremlin]

1:33 are you guys high, what the hell is this conversation

[@Lerkero]

46:15 - gianmarco should know how inappropriate it is to deadname X like this

[@Orhan-um1mu]

I thought all the time: "She reminds me of someone!" At 01:16:03 I realized: It's Greta Gerwig! She reminds me of Greta Gerwig!

[@elreydelmundo1343]

I had no idea Beanie Babies had names.

[@TASHITE]

That's his backpack?...

[@linaria17]

I don’t know why people are such haters (I see some in this comment section, go somewhere else if you’re so unhappy about other people being happy about their passions), but I love it when you talk theater! One of my close friends is a mathematician who loves to talk theater, and I think it’s really beautiful hearing people talk about what they love, even if I can’t necessarily resonate with it or don’t have the expertise. Do what floats *your* boat. Part of finding an audience is also defining your niche, not having them define yours. People who put others down for talking about what they love are just insecure.

[@zero11010]

You guys are too close on that couch. You seem cramped in the frame. One of you may as well be on the other’s lap … which I think would really work for a lot of your fans.

[@karemadaniele]

Like why don’t they just switch couches 😭

[@krasmazov009]

I will not take Ms Maisel slander. Unlike your opinions on Israel, this is appaulling. Unsubscribed.

[@StargazingDragon]

Lol I WAS your biggest fan is such a stupid last ditch effort to strike out at somebody you don't even know. Hope he finds peace

[@zero11010]

23:54 definitely never heard of a dude with beenie babies.

[@zero11010]

Definitely never heard a grown man speak fondly about getting a purple stuffed bear with flowers on its chest as a child.

[@zero11010]

As a normal person. I’ve only seen one theater performance other than when I was a child in school and forced to go to school performances. You talk more about theater stuff than anyone I’ve ever heard of. And, I’ve known people who act professionally. It’s a lot. Like a kid who is obsessed with Minecraft. I’m glad you have a thing you like. Really! I’m just hoping you broaden your approach to entertainment at some point and have another thing you’re into in addition to still enjoying theater events. You talk WAY more about theater than comedy, and I’m assuming you’re passionate about comedy … but I’ve practically never heard you speak about inside comedy and stand up stuff … nothing like you do about theater. You’re not talking about going to comedy performances. You’re not bonding with crowds over your own craft … you do it over some play neither of you had anything to do with.

[@linaria17]

Get a life instead of being bitter about somebody else talking about what they love. Normal people don’t have to say they’re normal.

[@zero11010]

@@linaria17 you’re trolling comments and you’re telling me to get a life because I’ve provided constructive criticism for a channel I follow? That’s weird, man.

[@linaria17]

@@zero11010 So many people disguise their hurtful comments as “constructive”. He already said in the video that he’s self-conscious about it and clearly thinking about it, so what’s the point in adding to that chorus of those voices? Plus a large part of Gianmarco’s fanbase love theater. You said he doesn’t talk about comedy, but every comic talks about their life and theater is clearly a big part of his. You saying that you’re a “normal person” implies that somehow Gianmarco isn’t, or that the people who enjoy him talking about theater aren’t normal people too? It’s offensive.

[@linaria17]

@@zero11010 oh yeah, and I guess calling me a troll counts as constructive criticism too by your definition?

[@zero11010]

​@@linaria17 You seem eager to find victims in places where there are none. The word normal seems to be highly triggering for you. Why is that? Do you have history with problems around normalcy? Calling you a troll is constructive criticism? I said you were trolling. That's a very accurate verb for your actions. Why would you think it was constructive criticism for you? I commented on the channel ... for the channel. I gave the channel constructive criticism. You ... you I don't care about at all. Why would I afford you the same courtesy when you've gone out of your way to initiate interaction by coming at me? These questions are rhetorical. Please understand that I'm not concerned with your opinions or thoughts. I don't wish you any ill. But, you're rude, and you seem eager to find victims which I find insufferable. I'm not looking to further our interactions.