Gianmarco Soresi

#15 A Schizophrenic Love Story with Atsuko Okatsuka (AD-FREE)

Atsuko Okatsuka (Let's Go Atsuko!) visits from LA to share the downsides of thinking your grandma is taking you on vacation as a kid from Japan to California only to find out you were actually moving there, schizophrenic moms, being a "nice comedian", and vacationing in the dessert. Gianmarco also tries a new bit with Russell that bombs spectacularly and he spirals about it for the rest of the ...

#14 Overoptimistic Doctors with Joanna Hausmann (AD-FREE)

Joanna Hausmann (Bill Nye Saves The World, Hyphenated) shares the downsides of skin cancer, overoptimistic doctors, replying to work e-mails too soon after anesthesia, and an old school teacher of hers who stabbed himself in the heart after confessing he tranquilized kids with double stuff Oreos. This episode also sets the recor...

#13 Russell Auditions for Fat Camp The Musical

On today's Patreon EXCLUSIVE I sneak in a clip of Russell singing "Lily's Eyes" in college, he shares the story of auditioning for Fat Camp The Musical where he was asked to show off his legendary "slow-motion somersault", and we do our first patron submitted This Has Gotta Stops!

Thank you for continuing to be patron. A couple folks have asked about video - I'm still working o...

#12 Bribing a Cop with Period Panties with Emma Willmann (AD-FREE)

Emma Willmann (My Crazy Ex Girlfriend) and Gianmarco have collectively failed their driving tests 11 times but Emma is the only one who once tried to bribe a cop from giving her a speeding ticket by offering him unlimited period panties from the period panties company sponsoring her podcast. Both the podcast and...

#11 Giving Birth During a Global Pandemic with Jessica Frey (AD-FREE)

Jessica Frey ( Sense & Sensibility, Netflix's The Characters) shares the one or two downsides of giving birth during a global pandemic. We talk about the anxiety of holding a baby on a roof, facts about women's bodies that Russell and I should have known, and just how much poop comes out with the baby. 

#10 The Downside of Having a Dad in Politics (AD-FREE)

The Downside guys talk with our dear friend, sketch team member, and the voice of McDonald's Chris Cafero about the downsides of having a dad in politics. We talk death threats, losing a race for office, and why America is probably gonna collapse any day now. Check out his dad's 2021-05-01 09:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post

#9 Disinvited to Shabbat with Jake Cohen (AD-FREE)

Notoriously terrible chef/okay comedian Gianmarco Soresi welcomes NYTimes best selling author Jake Cohen (Jew-ish: A Cookbook) to talk about the downsides of culinary school, working in a test kitchen, Zoom shabbats and why Gianmarco's birthright bar mitzvah doesn't really count. Co-host Russell Daniels, the only non-Jew ...

#8 How to Survive a Moose Attack with SallyAnn Hall (AD-FREE)

Moose and bears and pedophiles, oh my! Stand-up comedian/Alaskan SALLYANN HALL (winner of the 2017 She Devil Comedy Festival) joins us to talk about the downsides of growing up in Alaska, getting a dog in quarantine, being an au pair to a family of Italian jockeys, and pornography. Gianmarco also talks about how he almost got put on the no-fly list from yelling “F#CK” (to himself!) at an ai...

#7 The Downside of Celebrity Encounters (AD-FREE)

Bonus episode #2! Today Russell and I talk with our friend and composer of The Downside theme Douglas Goodhart about some dreadful celebrity encounters we've had. We're talking Billy Joel, Bill Burr, and Mandy Patinkin, three celebrities that appeal to three entirely different kinds of people. 

#6 Jay Jurden (AD-FREE)

On what was supposed to be the first episode of The Downside, my co-host's wife was in a room with someone who had coronavirus so he couldn't join, which felt fitting given the "theme" of this "podcast". Thank god my guest was stand-up comedian/friend JAY JURDEN. We talked the downsides of growing up in Mississippi, bei...

#5 Alex Brightman (AD-FREE)

Goddamn, you four folks joined at just the right time. Here you go, one day early, an ad-free version of my episode with Alex Brightman, the most famous person who replies to my texts. He had the life I always dreamed of having back in my musical theater college days and I did everything I could to make him tell me why it's not all it's cracked up to be. I remain unconvinced.

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#4 The Downside of Funerals

Hello my two Patreon subscribers!

I want you to know that I will never forget your support. Even if years from now I have five Patreon subscribers, six if I’m lucky, I will remember that you two were the first.

Today I drop the first bonus episode where me and my co-host, who you both know personally, discuss the downsides of funerals. I had literally just come from one earlier th...

#3 Fumi Abe (AD-FREE)

Here's early access to tomorrow's episode (and ad-free of course). I will try to get y'all day-early access whenever I'm able. Once I have enough patrons to have a regular producer in place it'll be easier. Also, your first bonus episode comes out on the 1st! It's called The Downside of Funerals. AND!!! We've decided to give patrons two bonus episodes a month (released on the 1st and 15th). I'm...

Kenice Mobley (AD-FREE)

This week we’re joined by The Tonight Show’s KENICE MOBLEY (@kenicemobley) to dish on the downsides of strip clubs, dating in New York City, making your late night debut during a global pandemic, and college cafeteria shows. We also breakdown once and for all the difference between a horse girl and a cat lady, which has surprisingly little to do with horse or cat ownership.

The Downside Episode 1: Matthew Broussard

The Downside has officially launched and so has The BIG Downside, my Patreon exclusive version of the podcast with bonus episodes and, most important, no ads.

Here is the first episode with stand up comedian Matthew Broussard. Bonus episodes will begin on the 1st starting with TWO bonus episodes (to make up for what I'm sure will be a messy start). Thanks for fucking with me.