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Gianmarco Soresi Takes the Netflix Leap as ‘God Forbid’ Lands December 3

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November 12, 2026

Gianmarco Soresi. Photo by Philip Romano, via Wikimedia Commons.

For a comic who built his following one tightly written joke at a time, this is the moment the rest of the business catches up. Gianmarco Soresi has announced that God Forbid, his second full-length stand-up special and his first for Netflix, will premiere globally on December 3.

The special was filmed over a sold-out run at Chicago’s Thalia Hall, and it finds Soresi working through the subjects that have made his act a word-of-mouth favorite: his aspirations and anxieties around marriage and fatherhood, and a sharp skepticism about the substitutes society keeps offering for religion. It is personal material, delivered with the precision of a comic who famously treats every line like it has to earn its place.

Soresi, who grew up in Potomac, Maryland and now calls Brooklyn home, began stand-up in 2016 and has stacked credentials at a steady clip ever since. He was named a Just for Laughs New Face in 2022, appeared on Netflix’s Verified Stand-Up in 2023, and released his first full-length special, Thief of Joy, free on YouTube in September 2025, the same week he made his Tonight Show set. He also hosts the podcast The Downside with Gianmarco Soresi, where his interviewing has become a second stage for the same restless curiosity that drives his act.

Netflix is not the only place to catch him this season. Soresi is simultaneously on the road with the Misery Loves Tour, a 38-show run stretching from November 13, 2026 through January 30, 2027, with stops that include the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, San Jose, New York and Brooklyn. Between the tour and a global Netflix premiere, December is set to be the biggest month of his career so far, and the introduction many viewers will remember as the first time they saw him.

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Gary Owen’s No Hard Feelings Tour Opens Sold Out in Detroit and Runs 63 Dates Deep

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November 12, 2026

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Gary Owen. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

The first weekend of Gary Owen’s No Hard Feelings Tour is already a statement: two nights at the Sound Board at MotorCity Casino Hotel in Detroit, November 13 and 14, and both are sold out. From there the run keeps going, 63 dates in all, stretching to May 7, 2027, with Rochester, Buffalo, New York and dozens more cities in between.

Owen’s story remains one of stand-up’s great unlikely launches. The Cincinnati native started doing comedy in 1995 while stationed with the US Navy in San Diego, and was named Funniest Serviceman in America, a title that sounds like a punchline until you realize it launched a thirty-year career. He built his audience the slow way, on the road and on club stages, until he became one of the most reliable theater draws in the business, the kind of comic promoters call when a big room has to fill.

That reliability is written all over this routing. Sixty-three dates is not a victory lap; it is a working comic’s calendar, the schedule of a headliner whose fans show up in every market, every time. The sold-out Detroit opener says the demand is not slowing down, and a tour that runs from November into next May says Owen has no plans to slow down either.

Thirty years on from those first sets in uniform, the No Hard Feelings Tour is Gary Owen doing what he has always done, showing up, night after night, city after city, and leaving audiences convinced the trip was worth it. Detroit found out first. Sixty-two more rooms are about to.