Gianmarco Soresi's $50 monologue offer comes with acting duties

An audience member accepts the invitation to perform The Wolves, then casts the comedian as her teenage scene partner.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 576,971 views a day, 6.4 times a normal first day on this channel (89,852).

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Gianmarco Soresi asks whether there are any theater kids in the crowd. He gets an actor who has rearranged her theater schedule to see him, knows her monologue and is perfectly willing to give him direction.

She plays the soccer mom in The Wolves, a play about a girls' youth soccer team. Her character arrives near the end with a dramatic speech about losing her daughter. Soresi makes an offer: "For $50, would you do the monologue for us?"

But inviting her onstage doesn't mean he gets to stand back and watch. She needs a cue, which means casting him as a teenage player with eyeliner and a broken leg. The comedian becomes the supporting actor at his own show, receiving instructions before the scene can begin.

The Short has drawn more than half a million views in nineteen hours, far beyond his usual first-day audience. In the comments, viewers keep returning to her directorial interruptions and the amount of scene-setting required before her character even appears. Others suggest she try stand-up herself.

Theater has been running through Soresi's uploads, including a Downside episode with Camden Garcia about musical theater and acting training. Here, it becomes an unexpected collaboration rather than a conversation topic. After the applause, Soresi thanks his guest and offers a career suggestion: "I hope I helped you realize sooner than I did to get into standup comedy over musical theater."

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The numbers

The monologue clip is drawing views much faster than Soresi's usual Shorts, with comments already well above a typical full first day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

89,852

this video

576,971

subscribers

1,510,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,863,736,907

views per day

1,132,426

typical day: 1,343,847

the video

views

523,081

likes

49,772

comments

464

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Michael Blaustein

1,640,000

Ali Siddiq

1,610,000

Russell Peters

1,530,000

Gianmarco Soresi

1,510,000

Taylor Tomlinson

1,400,000

Randy Feltface

1,370,000

As of October 31, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.