Last November Soresi made his debut on The Late Late Show with James Corden, immediately referencing his Jewish background and how it affects him in his everyday life.
As Kylie Ora Lobell wrote on the Aish.com website,
Since stepping into standup, in addition to appearing on James Corden, Soresi has also been a New Face at the Just for Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, a prestigious honor that has propelled many other comedians in their careers. He appeared with Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal in the movie “Here Today,” starred in his own special on Amazon Prime, and performs standup on the road 45 weekends a year.
“Doing standup is a real rush,” he said. “Everything is rockin’ and rollin’ and you feel the joy of getting laughter. When I’m offstage, my mind is always wandering, whether it’s because I’m ADD or OCD or just Jewish. When I’m on stage, I’m very present and alive and I’m in the moment.”
Soresi grew up in Potomac, Maryland, with a Jewish mother and an Italian father. However, he didn’t do much in terms of his Jewish practice.
When the comedian was 26, he went on Birthright to Israel, and today he’s dating a woman with more of a background in Judaism.
“She grew up Chabad, which has definitely brought me close to Judaism,” he said.
Soresi lives on the Lower East Side, a neighborhood that was predominantly Jewish around the turn of the 20th century. He lives across from the Tenement Museum, a remnant of the Jewish history there, and he’s near Russ & Daughters, a legendary New York eatery that features top-quality smoked fish and lox.
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