Gianmarco Soresi releases a stand-up comedy set 2 months early because he's not sure how long these jokes will play afterlast night's Biden and Trump presidential debate.

Gianmarco Soresi releases a stand-up comedy set 2 months early because he's not sure how long these jokes will play afterlast night's Biden and Trump presidential debate.

Thief of Joy blends Soresi’s signature theatrical flair with deeply personal storytelling. Drawing from his life as a theatre kid turned theatre major, he weaves together intimate anecdotes about his relationship, career, and his parents’ divorce, all delivered in the animated style The New York Times calls “silkily feline physicality and frenetic gesticulation.”

Thief of Joy blends Soresi’s signature theatrical flair with deeply personal storytelling. Drawing from his life as a theatre kid turned theatre major, he weaves together intimate anecdotes about his relationship, career, and his parents’ divorce, all delivered in the animated style The New York Times calls “silkily feline physicality and frenetic gesticulation.”

I always believed comedy should be raw. Uncensored. Filthy. Because the truth is filthy. But then I found out how much money comedians can make by recording a clean comedy album. So my new clean album The Rats Are In Me, produced by @blondemedicine, will start playing on SiriusXM this month. 　　Aside from some clips, I won’t be releasing it to the general public in order to maintain my cool, naughty Jewish boy persona but if you join my Patreon (link in story) then on 4/6 you can listen OR WATCH the whole special whenever you like. 　　That’s right, I’m releasing a comedy special on a platform even less prestigious than YouTube. And the video includes all the Not-Safe-For-Christian-Radio outtakes where I say all kinds of four letter words like “If this clean album doesn’t make me a lot of CASH I’m in deep doody!!!” 　　So join my Patreon for as little as $5 - you’ll also get a lot of extra stuff for my podcast The Downside (including a new episode with Broadway superstar Joshua Henry coming out next week) but if you don’t give crap about the podcast you can just join in April, listen and watch the special, and then unsubscribe. 　　Oh! And the album is clean but I promise it’s not, like, happy. It’s really good. And you can hear where I wanted to curse. George Carlin’s first album was clean so whatever I don’t feel guilty about it.

Omar has been living in London for a decade, spending his days working in the City and his nights ignoring phone calls from his family in Lebanon. One evening, restless after another pleading voicemail from his mother, he reaches for his phone and invites over Marco, a Spanish student newly-arrived in London and doing sex work to earn a little extra cash. But when Marco arrives, Omar can’t shake the feeling that something’s not right about him. As their night together progresses truths will be revealed, defenses lowered, and Omar will discover just what it took for Marco to be here.

Omar has been living in London for a decade, spending his days working in the City and his nights ignoring phone calls from his family in Lebanon. One evening, restless after another pleading voicemail from his mother, he reaches for his phone and invites over Marco, a Spanish student newly-arrived in London and doing sex work to earn a little extra cash. But when Marco arrives, Omar can’t shake the feeling that something’s not right about him. As their night together progresses truths will be revealed, defenses lowered, and Omar will discover just what it took for Marco to be here.

A drama-thriller that tells the story of a deportee who never existed. It spins the tale of the life of a man who, for years, was able to keep telling a lie in the public eye, and even to his own family. It was a lie that’s difficult to make up: that he had been a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp. 　　Indeed, Enric Marco Batlle (1921-2020) was a Spanish trade unionist who served as secretary-general of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT) and as the president of the Amical de Mauthausen association in Spain. During his time at the head of this association, he gave a large number of talks, chiefly in educational institutions, about his alleged life as a survivor of the Nazis, replete with anecdotes and tiny details; however, in 2005, he courted international infamy after a report by historian and researcher Benito Bermejo (who specialises in studying Spaniards who were deported to concentration camps) discovered that he had falsified information in his biography so as to appear as a survivor of the Nazi extermination camp in Flossenbürg. Despite this, he never apologised for the hoax.