Being Funny in Deeply Unfunny Times with Gianmarco Soresi

Factually! with Adam Conover

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Comedy

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Comedy has changed as an art form. On top of social media fundamentally reconfiguring the expectations of the audience for what the role of a comedian is meant to be, we live in deeply unfunny times. Despite these challenges, we still all need to laugh. This week, Adam talks with comedian Gianmarco Soresi about how to adapt to the times without compromising integrity.

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.0	I don't know the truth.
0:08.3	I don't know the way.
0:10.9	I don't know what to think.
0:13.6	I don't know what to say.
0:16.6	Yeah, but that's all right.
0:19.4	That's okay.
0:22.0	I don't know anything.
0:28.1	Hey there, welcome to Factually.
0:29.6	I'm Adam Conover.
0:30.4	Thank you so much for being on the show again.
0:32.6	You know, I've been doing comedy for a couple decades now, unfortunately, and it's changed a lot in the time that I've
0:39.8	been doing it. We have seen the death of cable television and the rise of social media. And with
0:45.9	that, comedy itself has changed. You know, as a stand-up comic, it's one of the kinds of comedian I am,
0:52.4	you used to be able to just put out a special
0:54.6	every couple years and tour in the meantime, but now you have to constantly be posting
0:59.5	new clips on social media that you don't get paid for just to promote your live appearances.
1:05.6	And that has fundamentally changed the art form of stand-up comedy in some ways, because now stand-up
1:12.1	comics have to mold the material that they're doing to meet the demands of this new form
1:17.7	of media.
1:18.8	Likewise, the connection of politics and comedy have changed a great deal.
1:22.9	It used to be that people would say that, like, conservative stand-up comedy doesn't even
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