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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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@GianmarcoSoresi 8 месяцев назад

Upcoming shows 1/18 • Miami, FL 1/19-1/20 • Boca Raton, FL 1/21 • Naples, FL 1/26-1/27 • Tacoma, WA 1/28 • Spokane, WA 1/31 • Irvine, CA 2/1 • Ontario, CA 2/2-2/3 • Seattle, WA Get Tickets: beacons.ai/gianmarcosoresi

@deimoslyric 8 месяцев назад

I will sell my firstborn child for you to come to Saskatoon SK. in Canada

@nadamuchu 8 месяцев назад

Gianmarco, I've been a deaf fan of your comedy for a few years now and want to thank you for almost always captioning your videos as well as including interpreters at your shows. My only feedback I'd give is to remember that the interpreters are only able to be there because of the deaf people who came to see your show. There's a lot to be said about interpreters in the entertainment world and the blurring of the lines between being an interpreter and being a performer, and no one expects you to know all the nuances about that, but next time, just talk to the deaf people, not the interpreters. Next time I dare you to ask the deaf people what's the weirdest or most embarrassing interpreter story they've had or heard of. You'll be in for a ride! Looking forward to catching one of your shows someday in socal! 🤟🏼

@запрещнка 8 месяцев назад

interpreters: do their job translating the performance gianmarco: You Are Now Part Of The Performance

@IsYitzach 8 месяцев назад

That will sometimes happen at music concerts. When rappers get going, so do the ASL interpreters. Then the rapper notices what the interpreter is doing and watches them while rapping. If they weren't performing at that moment, their jaws would be on the ground.

@edendumas 8 месяцев назад

He has to make it messy lol

@elliotw.888 7 месяцев назад

I'm confused tho, why is there a third person involved in the system?

@запрещнка 7 месяцев назад

@@elliotw.888 I'm not sure which person you're talking about, but here's what I understood it to be: 1) there's obviously the performer, gianmarco, 2) two interpreters that take shifts, and 3) the deaf/hoh person for whom they interpret (and their party). I think it wasn't the venue's idea to have asl interpreters

@VivekYadav-ds8oz 6 месяцев назад

@@запрещнкаI read that as "deaf/hot person for which they interpret" and i was like i understand pretty people are treated nicer but this is just unnecessary

@pffffggg 6 месяцев назад

I stil think "Women be shopping" it's one of your best jokes xD

@alphabetaomega265 8 месяцев назад

He’s breaking the fifth wall by talking to his interpreters 😂😂

@Senriam 8 месяцев назад

Fifth wall is talking to critics, this has to be the sixth wall

@NiKiMa023 8 месяцев назад

@@Senriamso many walls!

@otter011 7 месяцев назад

That’s like… 16 walls.

@Kingdom_Of_Dreams 5 месяцев назад

Now there's a 5th wall in performing arts??

@sheepketchup9059 2 месяца назад

@@Kingdom_Of_Dreams interpreters?

@ZT1ST 8 месяцев назад

I'm surprised the interpreters didn't respond to "What's the weirdest gig you've ever done?" with "This one."

@yuki97kira 8 месяцев назад

Just showed this isnt the weirdest thing to happen

@KelsomaticPDX 7 месяцев назад

I’m sure that’ll be the “shirt through the zipper” woman’s answer from now on though 😅

@MrsLawrence47 3 месяца назад

My thoughts exactly

@MysterySteve 8 месяцев назад

I've seen the short version of this more than 5 times and only just noticed she's also interpreting some of the audience reactions because of course deaf people aren't going to know how the crowd is reacting behind them. Never occurred to me they'd interpret anything more than just the performer, fascinating stuff

@ZT1ST 8 месяцев назад

The interpreter version of when the closed captioning says "Curious music playing in the background", but much more clearer.

@black-nails 8 месяцев назад

Oh wow, never knew this. I can't even imagine how much skill keeping up with everything takes

@atlander4204 8 месяцев назад

Facial expression and the intensity/vibe of the movements are also crucial to sign language. They’re like tone of voice, and she’s playing his snark perfectly.

@mlp-violet-star 8 месяцев назад

When I graduated from high school we had a sign language interpreter and sometimes when we would cheer for someone she'd translate it.

@raymax_1071 8 месяцев назад

I can not begin to understand how insanely difficult it must be to pay attention to Gianmarco, understand everything he says, translate in real time, translate the reactions and gestures and still keep up with him. That's ridiculous, that woman is amazing.

@TheSabadine 8 месяцев назад

But does she deserve to vote??? (This is a joke please don't hate me)

@grimpixelations6017 8 месяцев назад

@@TheSabadine I don't knoooooooww!!

@GSTooshi 8 месяцев назад

Women* plural. And interpreters in general, it's truly astonishing, their focus, my ADHD self can not imagine

@xislomega242 8 месяцев назад

And deaf people have to understand her ASL, too!

@daveroll6463 8 месяцев назад

she is also exaggerating the mouth movements with the words he is saying for the deaf people to lip-read!

@tauraisaha9557 8 месяцев назад

Acknowledging the interpreters in the set itself might have led to adorable chaos but it was truly beautiful to see Gianmarco highlight that not only are they assisting him on stage, he is sharing the stage with them. The spotlight he put on their work and their experiences does that very important job. Adored the running gag of "women being allowed to vote" and the hilarious faces the interpreter pulled as she translated it, as well as the shock and indignation of the other interpreter when he sneaks in "it's the interpreter's fault" in the middle of his affirmations. An amazing trio. Gianmarco is probably the only comedian I would actually want to save up and travel to see. That being said, him coming to India, bleak as the chance may be, would obviously be fantastic.

@TheFiddleFaddle 8 месяцев назад

I jumped on tickets 2 hours away to see him when he heads over to Tacoma in a couple weeks. I'm stoked!

@dr.k1012 8 месяцев назад

I would spend all my savings if he ever visits India ngl

@ShamaD274 6 месяцев назад

Aye another Indian fan!

@ArthKryst 2 месяца назад

I'd pay to watch him in India for sure

@fayesversion 8 месяцев назад

5:41 the way the interpreter turned towards gianmarco is so funny 😂

@nicoleashleyknox 8 месяцев назад

I died. She's quick and funny too!

@CapPotato388 8 месяцев назад

I think that was my favourite part

@LEOODARTHVADER2 8 месяцев назад

Honestly that one was so good it looked scripted holy molu

@TheKillahKyla 8 месяцев назад

Agreed. Best part. And his reaction when he looked over at her was hilarious too

@Bpaynee 8 месяцев назад

Gianmarco breaks pretty much every rule of interpreting, but that was some truly beautiful chaos

@nc4494 8 месяцев назад

i am just curious, in what ways does he do that? i don't know even a single rule of interpreting

@-c3202 8 месяцев назад

At its most basic, you speak to the Deaf person and the Deaf person signs to you, with the interpreter to the side in the Deaf person's field of vision doing their job. The interpreter, in this context, is a living accessibility tool, there for work, not for their own pleasure. Similar to other sorts of real-time translators. The biggest difference, tho, is that distracting or engaging directly with the interpreter is more like distracting/engaging with a guide dog. You are preventing the Deaf person from getting the accommodation they need and treating them as less of a person than the interpreter. A lot of people don't know this, tho, so typically an interpreter will explain this at the beginning of an interaction. At a gig, however, sometimes not all of the performers are appropriately briefed

@yikesmydude5641 8 месяцев назад

@@nc4494It’s like petting a working service dog. When they’re interpreting or working, they’re basically an extension of the person or people that need their help. You should treat them as if they either aren’t there or are an extension of that person or group of people. By interacting with them directly while they work, you are interrupting their ability to service the people they’re helping, as well as making their job a lot harder (as you can see with the struggle to communicate when he was trying to ask the interpreters questions themselves). It’s great to be curious and want to learn, but you really should wait for when they’re off duty to ask so the person they’re helping is still receiving all the information they need, such as asking the interpreter that’s sitting the question so she can answer directly and the one working can interpret that for the client or person in need. To bring back the service dog metaphor, it’s like telling a working dog they’re doing great. You really shouldn’t do that because they’re on the job, so they need to focus. Hope this helped

@marioksoresalhillick299 8 месяцев назад

@@-c3202 That makes a lot of sense. I guess the difference in this case is that the communication between the two became part of the comedy.

@ajs787 8 месяцев назад

@@-c3202 That's my guess as far as what caused most of the hijinks, he probably wasn't briefed. Cause that's not something everybody intuitively knows if they're not around ASL and interpreters. Though part of me is glad he wasn't, because it made great comedy.

@phasm42 8 месяцев назад

On a related note, if you've never seen ASL interpreters translating rap, do yourself a favor and look it up: it's amazing stuff 😮

@ajs787 8 месяцев назад

ESPECIALLY if it's the super fast stuff, like that clip with Twista at a show.

@sollerona 8 месяцев назад

i know a very specific clip with this interpreter doing eminem. absolutely fucking insane

@maiganmattson5836 8 месяцев назад

Oh my god!!! I have to see this! Thanks 😊

@Sdority905 8 месяцев назад

[Enters RU-vid blackhole]

@Bookdragon11 8 месяцев назад

I will go do that, it sounds cool 😆

@J.Blazer 8 месяцев назад

It's funny to see Gianmarco do his usual "hunch over", then the interpreter hunch over with signs

@MerlinHills9004 8 месяцев назад

The interpreters are nailing this! The ways Gianmarco included them into his performance was so hilarious!

@suz5191 8 месяцев назад

11:40 LOL I love how the interpreter on stage apologizes to the other interpreter right after interpreting the joke HAHAHA

@kathleesi 8 месяцев назад

Why did she do so?

@claree.5407 7 месяцев назад

@@kathleesi Because the joke was making fun of the first interpreter. (Lightheartedly of course)

@DalesDubs Месяц назад

The sign for "sorry" is a closed fist making a circle on the chest, for anyone wondering.

@Elphie204 8 месяцев назад

I've interpreted for comedians before and I just don't anymore 😂 One did the very tired/pedestrian "make the interpreter interpret the moans and sighs of this 'orgasm'" and another time a guy at a Leatherman event caught me off guard so bad (this was the 90s, no prep given) and I completely broke. Bad. Folded double laughing if I'm honest but I felt awful and got it together as quickly as I could and the comedian got massive 👏👏 👏 while I died.

@claree.5407 7 месяцев назад

I’ve never interpreted stand up but I did interpret for a very funny stage speaker who made me fingerspell Rosalini Tortellini over and over. Yours is way worse, maybe I won’t take any stand up comedy gigs. 😂

@voidface8827 3 месяца назад

I have no clue how y’all do it!:0 Especially without prep like you mentioned (hopefully it’s gotten better nowadays). I’m a polyglot (which I know it’s not really the same but it’s the closest comparison I have) and I cannot speak another language while someone is speaking, say, english! Translating jokes seems even harder! Do some jokes just not work at all in sign language? I imagine puns don’t, but were you ever hearing a joke you were signing and was like “okay this one is not gonna land with the deaf/hard of hearing people in the audience” just cause the grammar is so different. I apologise if this is a lot, I just find it so awesome that interpreting is not only a thing, but that it’s meant to give deaf people the same experience of an event as everyone else with delivery or energy in the case of concerts.

@asterismos5451 8 месяцев назад

Small note but thank you so much for adding the subtitles within the video high up so people needing them in other languages with the cc function on here don't have a hard time reading them overlapping at the bottom!!!

@jay-tbl 6 месяцев назад

on the desktop website you can actually just click and drag the captions out of the way if youre on a video that doesnt do it for you

@asterismos5451 6 месяцев назад

@@jay-tblYeah it's just an extra step that I don't think should be necessary on the part of the viewer and I imagine is extra difficult if you're working with a screen reader and limited mobility where you have to have the computer read what each button says before you can click it to make whatever changes. Just a bit of a UX concern, so if the person's able to get rid of the need to do that in the first place, it saves everyone a lot of trouble.

@saal0 6 месяцев назад

It’s a great tip nontheless

@glencoconut 8 месяцев назад

It's wild to me I never considered sign language interpreters would have to sign for the crowd reaction or instructions for a mother giving birth like it makes complete sense now that I think about it

@FukaiKokoro 8 месяцев назад

"What if I did this for 30 more minutes and said goodnight" I think everyone would be okay with that.

@willowcolios5248 8 месяцев назад

This is so great. Winter sucks but Gianmarco is helping me through this one. And this set is outstanding.

@Uathe 8 месяцев назад

not alone 😂😅😂🎉

@zoephoenix7806 8 месяцев назад

Gianmarco is my idol for saving awkward situations and learning to bask in awkwardness. Like he genuinely turns it into an organic brand of fun and you can't do anything but laugh with him 😂

@miateacher123 8 месяцев назад

Exactly! I love this about him. It's star quality.

@janlakuse5199 8 месяцев назад

i've seen a couple comedians post about this same kind of thing and they like always only have the interpreter in frame, or cut back and forth between the comic and the interpreter and it's really annoying. most of them don't subtitle the stuff either. thanks for clearly editing this to make it accessible but also just like... quality? appreciate all you do, gianmarco.

@nicokelly6453 8 месяцев назад

Haha the whole "caveat to make clear you don't agree with the thing you're signing" is exactly why my mom went through her degree and training and ended up quitting being an interpreter. She didn't want to say all that ugly stuff for other people. lol

@ShatteredRoom 8 месяцев назад

God I love comedy shows being interpreted. I wish I knew more ASL but the program and extracurriculars I was in at RIT|NTID was like all hearing men so I never got to much socializing with my fellow dhoh folks

@ElliezMaplez 8 месяцев назад

omg I went to RIT! honestly I missed a solid opportunity to learn asl

@Challkboard 8 месяцев назад

Never too late to start/keep learning!

@neologicalgamer3437 8 месяцев назад

I would love to watch an hour and a half of this guy just having fun discovering what interpreters are like

@pauwula 8 месяцев назад

I'm a consecutive interpreter so I can't imagine how hard it must be to interpret a _comedy set_ *and* simultaneously, wow. Props to the interpreters!!

@stefunnylim 8 месяцев назад

this set was INCREDIBLE i am cackling, you worked really well with the interpreters (even if the interactions weren't planned & broke rules, they flowed so well!) (and the interpreters are all so funny too). i laughed so hard! good job everyone!!! (also TIL more about ASL interpreters through the comments!)

@PugsWellington 8 месяцев назад

That was incredible. Everyone involved nailed it

@undeniablySomeGuy 8 месяцев назад

Without a doubt; so fun to watch

@nadamuchu 8 месяцев назад

are you a fluent signer? Just wondering how you know everyone nailed it. terp was OK.

@nina-mariethomas7500 8 месяцев назад

I get that mostly standup is just a job for you guys, but this looked like a lot of fun. Three genius performances for sure!

@aznthy 8 месяцев назад

hilarious playing with the crowd and interpreters

@claree.5407 7 месяцев назад

I’m an ASL interpreter, and that looked absolutely miserable to interpret 😂. But they handled it with grace.

@irandude1655 8 месяцев назад

I always love looking at the signers. They just convey a lot of emotions.

@stealthlock6634 8 месяцев назад

This is his first time having ASL interpreters, and I love how he’s not cruel or rude or dehumanizing of them, but instead eager to learn, getting educated in real time, genuinely fascinated and trying hard not to inconvenience them too much, but also full of genuine wonder and respect for them. Very humble! Honestly I feel that too, those interpreters are amazing!! Teaching him the rules, patient, expressive, professional, and SMART

@udraj914 6 месяцев назад

I have tried simultaneous interpretation twice, and never again. The amount of focus and mental concentration required is insane. The max a person can go without a break is 30 mins. Hence tag-teaming is essential. And of all interpretations, translating humour is the hardest (even when its written). These people are beyond amazing. Hats off from a translator to the amazing interpretors

@spencerruston406 8 месяцев назад

Me signing women be shopping but shaking my head the whole time so people dont think im cringe

@snarkyginger1158 8 месяцев назад

That gosh darned thousand yard stare he does sometimes, gets me every time

@aqueelkadri8371 8 месяцев назад

5:05 Why does this interpretation live rent free in my head? I don't have the courage to ask it to move out yet.

@derp195 8 месяцев назад

Love that you have the interpreter on screen instead of just cutting back and forth!

@ryah7501 8 месяцев назад

Im Deaf and this is hilarious fr now I want to go to a comedy show with my interpreter (who is also my brother)

@rubyy.7374 6 месяцев назад

As somebody with a deaf sibling I wish I had your brother’s level of commitment

@bethanysolimine5428 8 месяцев назад

That was so much fun to watch! It's so fun to see the different ways that interpreters sign. The extra emotion and faces and things. Each interpreter brings their own flair to the speech. Their reactions to Gianmarco were hilarious.

@Ad_Inferno 8 месяцев назад

I'm a court reporter who does some live captioning work, and there's always something so special about getting to work alongside ASL interpreters, because even as I'm writing as close to verbatim as possible, the fact is I can't convey tone and meaning through text. ASL interpreters can. When I've had the chance to ask Deaf clients (mostly I work with late-deafened or hard-of-hearing clients who wouldn't know ASL anyway), many of them like the addition of captions to get what's being said word for word, but no one prefers it over ASL and I completely understand why. I wouldn't either.

@sethswheelhouse 8 месяцев назад

An absolute round of applause for the ASL interpretors, being polite, hilarious, and also still doing their job while Gianmarco is talking to them. What great sports. They make this whole thing even funnier.

@kinrateia 8 месяцев назад

That interpreter was having so much fun😭😭

@WryAun 8 месяцев назад

That was pure chaos to follow! I the interpreters were such good sports about it but I'm really dying to know how much that was prenegotiated before the show, like had it been discussed that you might try to include them in the show or address them as part of the set? I'd love to maybe hear a vlog where you discuss what prompted you to get sign interpreters for this gig!

@DasAlena 8 месяцев назад

yes! otherwise I think that was too demanding, like talking to the interpreter even though he could have talked to the deaf person for who they were actually there for

@Jenniemorgan7 8 месяцев назад

How do they do this without laughing? I wouldn’t accomplish much doubled over in laughter.

@hernameispekka_Rebecca 8 месяцев назад

Pretty sure the brain is focused on live translating words in a timely matter and in a way that makes sense. Doubt you have much brain-power left to actually take in what is being said haha

@Greg-vq9tu 8 месяцев назад

Just got home from seeing this magnificent SOB in Tampa. He absolutely killed the Sunday crowd tonight! Gianmarco, we [Tampa] love you so much, and thanks for the towel! 😂 Please come back to Tampa again soon. Don’t make us wait too long, k? I brought my mom tonight and it was her first time seeing a live stand-up show in decades, and she LOVED it! ❤❤ You’re just amazing, man, honestly. What a great way to start off the new year!

@moxiebombshell 7 месяцев назад

Definitely a bit of a drive for you from Tampa, but I just saw he'll be in Dania June... 21-23, I think? (Dania's on the Atlantic side, near Palm Beach...or maybe Ft. Lauderdale? Either way, it's that general area 😅)

@KristineMaitland 8 месяцев назад

Another hilarious sign language interpreter is Catherine King. She has worked with Australian comedian Adam Hills.

@stephbarnes8962 8 месяцев назад

I thought I recognised her from another comedy show but I couldn’t remember whose show it was

@Eden_Thefox 4 месяца назад

I love watching this as a DHH person. There’s always a lot of fear behind interpreters because you don’t wanna interrupt their job and all but these kind of interactions make me very happy

@sheepyhair 8 месяцев назад

This is some beautiful comedy. It's got to be so difficult for the interpreters but I can definitely see how it would be seriously difficult for Gianmarco too, as he has to try to avoid looking at or interacting with the person repeating everything you're doing literally 2ft away from you. I bet this throws a huge amount of performers off of their game if they aren't properly used to it. I get that it probably breaks some "rules", but it has caused a pretty unique moment of comedy, well done!

@janlakuse5199 8 месяцев назад

second interpreter really caught on to gianmarco's bending-over-after-punchline manneurism

@audengranger 8 месяцев назад

I would definitely buy more tickets to comedy shows if there was an ASL interpreter! It'd be great to see you do an interpreted show again!