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Gianmarco Soresi Demands Inclusive Bullying in Comedy
“Embarrassment is, unfortunately, one of the best tools for making better comedy.”
Let’s also throw in a thin, gold forever bracelet with a T charm that I got with my girlfriend at a casino’s tattoo convention, some Warby Parker glasses, and a brown leather watch, the two hands of which read “Memento” and “Mori” respectively. Not just random acts of cruelty, of course, but like, the story of Patrice O’Neal throwing a phone book onstage while Kevin Hart was performing and saying something along the lines of “Find one person in there who thinks you’re funny.” Obviously it can (quickly) go too far, and the boys’-club nature of stand-up led to bullying that was sexist, homophobic, transphobic, racist, ableist, etc. A comic named Ken Boyd told me something along the lines of “Confidence is the only way through,” an axiom I saw him prove nightly by starting sets off by asking someone in the audience to give him gum and then proceeding to effortlessly kill while loudly smacking his lips.
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