Misha Osherovich shares the downsides of having parents who fled from Russia, not knowing what 'gay' means until you’re 9, getting kicked out of two high schools in one year, being thrown into the troubled teen industry, going straight from that into musical theater college, and coming out as non-binary during a global pandemic. We also share a clip from our Patreon-exclusive episode "The Dow...
2021-08-16 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostRussell and I celebrate our first episode to break 1,000 downloads then immediately move onto the downsides of the time I did stand up on Real Housewives of New York, how much we love celebrity gossip/deuxmoi, Schmigadoon, middle school sleepovers, and I start working out the wedding toast for my middle school friend that’s getting married in fucking Hawaii. We also harmonize to Vitamin C's F...
2021-08-15 11:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostHey Downsiders (is that an okay nickname? Negative Nancy's? Gloomy Guses? Cynical Sams? Debbie Downsiders????) I decided to just add THE VIDEO LINK in these posts so you don’t have to deal with two separate e-mail reminders. Let me know if that's cool with you in the comments.
Big episode today. 2021-08-09 10:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Usama Siddiquee shares the downsides of tutoring kids in math, growing up in Plano, Texas, having a brother who married their cousin, his family throwing an intervention for him to quit stand-up comedy, asking his mom to say “I’m proud of you” for his America’s Got Talent segment, staying at a fan’s house that was filled with dog hair but no dog, and we discuss his original opening jo...
2021-08-02 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Usama Siddiquee shares the downsides of tutoring kids in math, growing up in Plano, Texas, having a brother who married their cousin, his family throwing an intervention for him to quit stand-up comedy, asking his mom to say “I’m proud of you” for his America’s Got Talent segment, staying at a fan’s house that was filled with dog hair but no dog, and we discuss his original opening jo...
2021-08-02 10:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
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Viacom's Gianmarco Soresi talks about filming his first set for Comedy Central (and the two drunk dudes in the first row who almost fucked up his R. Kelly joke), the podcast (Shalom Bias) he's trying to convince his girlfriend to start, and the time his 3rd grade French class production of Strega Nona (which CRUSHED at ...
2021-08-01 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostViacom's Gianmarco Soresi talks about filming his first set for Comedy Central (and the two drunk dudes in the first row who almost fucked up his R. Kelly joke), the podcast (Shalom Bias) he's trying to convince his girlfriend to start, and the time his 3rd grade French class production of Strega Nona (which CRUSHED at the lower school assembly) got put on for the middle school assembly to utte...
2021-08-01 10:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Maddy Smith shares the downsides of living close to the Colgan Air Flight 3407 crash, getting too high at the Wild ‘n Out wrap party, not getting into her college a capella group so she became the editor in chief of the school newspaper but they didn't appreciate her sense of humor, blacking out, Lexapro, NYC public restrooms, and I confront her about the time she told me to “quit comedy”...
2021-07-26 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View PostMaddy Smith shares the downsides of living close to the Colgan Air Flight 3407 crash, getting too high at the Wild ‘n Out wrap party, not getting into her college a capella group so she became the editor in chief of the school newspaper but they didn't appreciate her sense of humor, blacking out, Lexapro, NYC public restrooms, and I confront her about the time she told me to “quit comedy”...
2021-07-26 13:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Christian Finnegan shares the downsides of having an imprisoned father-in-law, still being recognized as the guy who gets choked out on Chappelle's Show, open-heart surgery, making a sex playlist with CD's, and being a master impressionist but only of NY1 news anchors. I also complain about the two new La Croix flavors (Beach Plum & Limoncello) because they're disgusting.
2021-07-19 13:01:03 +0000 UTC
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On today's PATREON-EXCLUSIVE episode, Russell was supposed to interview me about all the shows I starred in through high school but instead he rants and raves about how opera is a classist spectacle nobody actually enjoys. We also discuss if it's okay to celebrate someone's death, why cops wouldn't be as bad if they dressed in clown shoes and floppy sun hats, and we compare our flaccid penises....
2021-07-15 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
On today's PATREON-EXCLUSIVE episode, Russell was supposed to interview me about all the shows I starred in through high school but instead he rants and raves about how opera is a classist spectacle nobody actually enjoys. We also discuss if it's okay to celebrate someone's death, why cops wouldn't be as bad if they dressed in clown shoes and floppy sun hats, and we compare our flaccid penises....
2021-07-15 10:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Damnnnnn I got the video and audio on time today! Description below. Tell your friends to join THE MOVEMENT to THE DOWNSIDE.
Ahri Findling joins us to discuss the downside of having grandparents that survived the Holocaust, not going through puberty until he was 18, a middle school rumor that he only had one testicle and Gianmarco takes one of the most poorly-timed commercial breaks of al...
2021-07-12 09:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostAhri Findling joins us to discuss the downside of having grandparents that survived the Holocaust, not going through puberty until he was 18, a middle school rumor that he only had one testicle and Gianmarco takes one of the most poorly-timed commercial breaks of all time.
Bonus Patreon episode coming out this Thursday (Theater Kid Pt. 2!!!!). Our next recording is with 2021-07-12 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the video from yesterday's episode with Ashley Ray. If the cops ask you about a video editor who disappeared after sending a video late please don't tell them anything. New episode next Monday with the very funny and loud Ahri Findling.
2021-07-06 12:39:13 +0000 UTC View PostComedian Ashley Ray shares the downsides of going to musical theater camp the day after her dad's funeral, being accused of gatekeeping dads on Father's Day, and shoplifting at 19 with her fiancé while maybe on Percocet? It's funny, it's sad, it's The Downside with (Emmy-nominated) Gianmarco Soresi.
Video is going to be a little late because I think my editor got too drunk las...
2021-07-05 10:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostRussell complains about his trip to Barbados (but it's mostly about all the shitty tourists), we welcome our newest patron who stabbed me with a pencil in 2nd grade (but I mostly deserved it), I reveal that I've never given my mom a gift she hasn't returned, there's a funny Tracy Morgan story and we take on all your "This Has Gotta Stops"!!!
Video should also be available to ev...
2021-07-01 12:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Russell complains about his trip to Barbados (but it's mostly about all the shitty tourists), we welcome our newest patron who stabbed me with a pencil in 2nd grade (but I mostly deserved it), I reveal that I've never given my mom a gift she hasn't returned, there's a funny Tracy Morgan story, and we take on all your "This Has Gotta Stops"!!!
2021-07-01 12:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Stand-up comedy legend Tex Alexandro shares the downsides of getting booed off stage at The Apollo after performing with his and his brother's rap group "Brotherly Love", being blacklisted from a comedy club after fighting for a pay raise, teaching music to middle schoolers, and Gianmarco complains about his friend's destination wedding in Hawaii that he was asked to perform at for free and par...
2021-06-28 11:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Stand-up comedy legend Tex Alexandro shares the downsides of getting booed off stage at The Apollo after performing with his and his brother's rap group "Brotherly Love", being blacklisted from a comedy club after fighting for a pay raise, teaching music to middle schoolers, and Gianmarco complains about his friend's destination wedding in Hawaii that he was asked to perform at for free and par...
2021-06-28 11:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry for the late video! I flew back from shows in Spokane, Washington yesterday and I am FRAZZLED.
Here is the video for episode #21 with Lukas Arnold!!!! Our Mulaney impressions are best enjoyed with a visual accompaniment. Feel free to share with your friends. Enjoy.
2021-06-21 14:16:18 +0000 UTC View PostTikTok star Lukas Arnold joins the Downside to rub his superior John Mulaney impression in Gianmarco’s face. We also talk about being in the middle of a lawsuit between your parents, the rules for impersonating celebrities of a different race, TSA thinking your mom is taking you hostage because of her last name, your dad forgetting your goddamn birthday, and taking a $700 Uber to see your dad...
2021-06-21 12:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to patron Dana Saffran's sleuthing skills, I'm able to surprise Russell with a clip of him performing Shakespeare on Nebraska morning news (see the video HERE before he figures out a way to take it down) and then we talk about the time he refused to shave his head for a 7th grade production of "Annie", the time he was cast as "racist cop" and told to "improvise", and I share the INSANE a...
2021-06-15 12:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to patron Dana Saffran's sleuthing skills, I'm able to surprise Russell with a clip of him performing Shakespeare on Nebraska morning news (see the video HERE before he figures out a way to take it down) and then we talk about the time he refused to shave his head for a 7th grade production of "Annie", the time he was cast as "racist cop" and told to "improvise", and I share the INSANE a...
2021-06-15 12:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
6-foot-tall-stand-up comedian Carmen Lynch (The Tonight Show, Inside Amy Schumer) joins us to talk about the downsides of wearing a back brace in high school, having a geriatric therapist, the time she almost got me killed driving back to NYC from Bananas Comedy Club, realizing you need glasses later in life, and Russell shares the time his masseuse started clipping his toenails unprompted.
... 2021-06-14 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostMichael Cruz Kayne (Late Night with Seth Meyers) shares the downsides of going viral for grief, talking about your son’s death at comedy clubs, being comforted online by Monica Lewinsky, having a mom who only says I love you in the third person, and the episode ends with the daddest dad joke of all time.
Thank you for being a patron. Next Monday you get early access to an epi...
2021-06-07 09:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
I got a little antsy wanting to share videos so I put this one together for our most downloaded episode yet with Joanna Hausmann. The angles are a little rough (just got new cameras) but this is a little preview of the regular episode videos you'll be getting starting 6/22. I'll be posting small chunks of each over on my YouTube but only you, my dear Patreon subscribe...
2021-06-03 15:57:21 +0000 UTC View Post
That's right. Our first full video. If it says it's still processing give it a fucking minute, would ya???
This is my first time doing video on here so let me know if I'm screwing anything up and I will fix it ASAP. Once we hit 25 patrons, you'll be getting these for all the Patreon-exclusives. Thanks for your continued support. It's 2:02 AM and I am so goddamn tired.
2021-06-01 06:02:16 +0000 UTC View PostRussell and I catch up over Zoom because...see title. We shout out all SEVENTEEN of our smart, sexy patrons, and then go on to discuss CrossFit workouts named after fallen soldiers, if our dead grandparents have to take care of our dead dogs until we finally die, and I talk about paying money to the goddamn Vanderbilt family just so my gf and I could walk around their boring ass mansion with a ...
2021-06-01 05:09:20 +0000 UTC View PostMyq Kaplan (The Tonight Show, America's Got Talent, Comedy Central) might be too positive for this podcast but we kinda got him to talk about the downside of doing shrooms on an empty stomach, summer camp infidelity, and people who say they really want to go vegan but it's just too hard!!!
Some upcoming guests (ONLY REVEALED TO YOU, MY DEAR PATRONS) are Michael Cruz Kayne, Carm...
2021-05-31 14:36:28 +0000 UTC View Post