The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi - #201 You Wanna See Me Cry? with Gianmarco & Russell (Patreon Exclusive Excerpt)

Episode Date: April 20, 2024

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Welcome to The Downside I am now in an even worse mood than the first time I said it Why? Which people can't hear Why? Because we had technical difficulties I'm a little bit high and I didn't mean to be Oh God, how did that happen?

Well, I woke up, I was going tory's boot camp and i like to have a little bit of high because it's a lot of running and it's so boring and if i get bored for me working out boredom is the thing that clicks in so i have to get a little high then i get a little into the music when i get high i think i like feel music the way i imagine you do more regularly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I took a fucking, you know, it was a gummy. It was 10 milligrams. That's big. That's why I took a quarter.

I was aiming for two to three. I feel like I took 15. Wow. And suddenly, I can't get anything done. I go to a place. It's not even interesting. What I'm mad get anything done. I go to a place. It's not even interesting. What I'm mad at is you.

Because you recommended me to do this goddamn motherfucking improv thing. It's really stressful. It's so fucking annoying. So for those, I'm not going to hide the mood today like I normally do. So the way that works, an actor, me, prepares a scene, but I only memorize, obviously, my lines. And I do it with an improviser. So I'm saying like the scripted line,

they're improvising, and then I have to respond with the next scripted line, even doesn't make any fucking sense. Yeah. I'm terrible at memorizing. This is like the last, I have to get better at calling Joe Marco. In a week

This is what your day is going to be Do you want that day? Do you want that day? And I said yes because You Period And here's what's going to happen Because we're trying this new thing

This is a Patriot exclusive But we release an excerpt And I think we're trying to just release the beginning, first 10 to 15, to entice you, the casual listener, to join the Patreon. And here's what we're doing.

What? At the end of this motherfucking thing, at the end of the recording session, we are doing this together and you are the improviser. I'll do it right now. I don't care.

Did you just hear what I said? Oh, at the end. At the end, so the people join the Patreon. Okay, okay. For the people who are going, oh, I got to pay to hear Russell improvise. Oh, my God. We've heard his sweet riffs normally.

Let's hear a few. Hey, listen. I knew that you, I knew this was going to be hard for you. That's why I wanted you to really prepare for it because I know memorization doesn't come as easy to you. It doesn't. No.

Right? And it's hard to just have to stick to it. It's really hard. Because- I was, before I did it, I was like, why is this so hard for me? I was really struggling. And I was sitting two hours before being like,

oh, just going crazy for an audition. But it doesn't matter. But it does, you know? Exactly. So Tova was like, oh, just going crazy for an audition. But it doesn't matter. But it does, you know? Exactly. So Tova was like, she wanted to go. And I was like, I don't think I want you to go because I think I'm going to be bad. Yeah.

And I'm going to be embarrassed. And she was like, you're uninviting me to the show? And I said, no, baby. I just, I don't. The thing is that, well, I will say having done it, you feel once you're there a lot less pressure than the improvisers. Because ultimately,

if the scene isn't funny, it's their fault and not your fault. Kind of. Do you know what I mean? Totally. The improvisers are like, they're the ones expected to get something. Obviously, you want to do a good job.

You want to know the lines. But it's much more on their shoulders to get laughs. At the end, would it be rude if it doesn't go well, if once the scene is over, I say, just remind everyone, I had to say all those lines. It was up to him to be funny. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm mad at you through that.

Because I said you should do it? Yeah. I'm mad about a lot of things. I had to be at Mohegan Sun this weekend. I don't want to be at that casino. I spent half my life at that casino. The finale of Curb Your Enthusiasm was so bad, it makes me mad.

It makes me furious. It's also funny because no one's talking about how bad that season was. No one. And I kind of understand people are like, the show is so beloved from the earlier seasons that we're all just pretending that that last season wasn't as atrocious as it was.

Or the regular person, not to, I'm getting more arrogant about comedy where I'm like, well, there's the regular people and there's people like comedy. And by regular,

I'm talking you, mom. She, I feel like, the old season, she'd be like, ugh. And the new, my mom doesn't like any Seinfeld stuff,

but some people would like the new seasons. See, but I don't see it. I don't see it talked about at all. Sure. That I'm thinking that it's just kind of a blip and like, no one's really going to talk about it until maybe an, you know what I mean? It's, I think it's like, it feels, I'm glad Larry David is famous.

I hope he continues to be, I don't know what you call these people where they, where they get old and they, they do a late night thing Every now and then Maybe an interview with David Letterman And you enjoy them Maybe a one off thing It's like they're retired essentially And I like that he's part of that conversation

But I also feel like Man I wish when you were Less likable And it was funnier I feel like he's like kind of cantankerous now cantankerous now but he's like you know I'm mad at you Elmo

and before the newscaster he would have said something really rude to them what was that I'm sorry that you had to go to a casino I love that casino. I would have gone with you. I had shows.

Oh, yeah. My mom saw you in Titanic. Yes, she did. My mom posted a picture on Instagram of just the Playbill. Yeah. And then a song that had nothing to do with Titanic. Well, it was pre-show music playing. It was a video, I think.

No, I think, because then she without deleting the first post, she then reposted the same picture of the Playbill with Celine Dion underneath. That was so sweet of her to come. Is it a burden? Be honest.

No, I do think that... I'm glad she can't. For Mom, I know you're listening. I appreciate you seeing my friend's things. It feels cool. We have a shared vocabulary, shared language. It's nice. I have a good thing going now where I'm being a little more honest with myself

if I'm going to just say hi quickly to someone. Because in the past, I would be like, oh, and then we'll get a quick drink. Sure. And because it's been a limited little time, I don't really have that in me to do with everything. So I've been good about a five to ten minute quick check-in after the show.

Thank you. It's nice to see people. It's so nice when people come. But I've been having all this allergy shit. You missed a show? I missed a show. I missed a show? I missed a show. I missed two shows. I missed a show this past Friday,

and it was two weeks ago. And it's like in and out of like, my throat is just so fucked up. I'm on medication. I'm taking things, but it's like I have this weird cough and this thing, and it just doesn't really go away. My throat feels so dry.

And I have a callback on Wednesday, so I need to like sing for her. So I'm like, come on. That doesn't really go away. My throat feels so dry. I have a callback on Wednesday, so I need to sing for her. So I'm like, come on. Now, does it have anything to do with your, you know me, I'm like, go take voice lessons, Russell. Is it completely allergy-based? I think we're in a cycle now where it was started as allergies, fully allergies, like coughing, like I'm fully congested.

And that now because of the show where I scream a lot, I keep like irritating it, irritating the allergy thing. And that's just not going to change in the next two weeks. You know what I mean? No, but I just mean in general. I just mean when I brought it up. I'm not going to be someone to be like, I can't be like, here's the thing. If I went to a voice teacher for what i'm doing in titanic

they they would have me being like like they would have me doing like i gotta scream a baby's gotta scream there's there's a kind of person and like tova similar where it's one of these things where it's like i know what they're gonna tell me and I don't want to do that, so I'm just not going to ever deal with my shit. And then I'll just die someday, and I'll never have had to deal with it. And I go, okay, you egomaniac, go see someone who makes this their livelihood. You're going to be probably, at least in the next 10 years another Broadway understudy and you that you don't

have a voice be a diva about your instrument I am listen I I listen if I book another Broadway show I'll find a voice teacher I'm not shaking your hand shake my hand shake my hand right now.

It depends on what I need to do in the show. If I have like seven- Sing in the musical. If I have seven lines and I sing in the chorus, I don't need the voice. You do though. You can't wait till it's too late. This is my problem.

You and Tova, same thing. You wait till it's too late and then you're going to have to go get the steroid shots. Oh, I took the first ever thing i've ever had i've taken i took um i've never taken um uh it's the famous broadway drug prednisone prednisone prednisone something like that um everyone takes it they all have it i've never taken it before what is it it's like a steroid for they're all taking it everyone's on

it hey everyone's juicing um and so and not like all the time you gotta be careful with it because it makes you feel like a superhuman and then you can blow out your voice um but i was like on thursday before i was out friday i was like i'm dying here um and i was nervous like like getting everything out and um someone in the cast had a a prednisone from Mexico because you can get it there really cheap. And so I took one. But then the next day, and I don't know if it was because of it or because I felt superhuman while I was on it,

my voice was so swollen that I had to call out. How quick did it kick in? So fast. Like it was within like 10, 15 minutes I could feel different And it just felt like when your voice is like Perfect, ready to go Not perfect but it felt like

Oh I can get through this no problems I'm not gonna like crack You know what I mean, I can power through Man Singing was such It was such I don't want to say the word traumatic But it was such an awful way to live because I kept practicing

and I'd have days where I felt like, wow, I think I'm getting it. And then other days where I'd be struggling to hold an F and I'd be like, what is going on? And it's all this mystery box. And you see the people with the inhalers and the whatever, and you're like, that's probably not it. But pregnancy, if I had had access that is something I'm going to get

if I do another show so the first thing you said earlier was just a lie we're just admitting that now you're never going to get a voice teacher I'm saying like if I have a lead I'm not going to be cast in another like lead of a musical kind of thing like probably unless it's a very specific thing anyways what what did you just say i'm just

not mr song you just you you you were the understudy for a musical that was two acts of pretty much just singing it's but it's it. That's a specific show. Listen, I'm saying a generic show? You need to prepare for stardom. You need to prepare for stardom. I'm not Brian Stokes Mitchell. I'm not Patti LuPone.

Listen, I almost got you a voice lesson. Listen, I admit, I almost got Russell a voice lesson for Christmas. That was going to be my gift because that's the kind of gifts I do. It's the gifts that you got to participate to take. Homework. Hey.

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