Giulio Gallarotti

Giulio Gallarotti takes the stage with the loose, chatty energy of a guy killing time at a party. He uses the cadence of a casual bro, but the material is stranger than his posture suggests. He stretches his face into wide, cartoonish expressions to show exactly how confused he was in a given story. A bit about monitoring a table of college guys at a restaurant slowly morphs from quiet judgment into genuine admiration for their polite table manners.

He pulls much of his audience from the Barstool Sports ecosystem. He co-hosts the Oops podcast with Francis Ellis and makes regular appearances on The Yak. This brings a heavy podcast following into traditional comedy clubs. Once they are in the room, he does not lean on the aggressive edge sometimes associated with that corner of the internet. He just talks to the crowd, dropping punchlines into the middle of what sounds like a normal conversation.

Gallarotti spends time off stage filming travel documentaries in places like Iraq, Rwanda, and Afghanistan. When those trips make it into his act, he strips away the self-importance of the world traveler. He frames himself as a mildly overwhelmed tourist. He focuses on the minor absurdities of transit or a strange local interaction rather than the geopolitical weight of where he is.

He is equally willing to turn that judgment inward. He will spend a long stretch of a set complaining about how his body gains weight in unmasculine ways, laying out his physical insecurities with the exact same casual pacing he uses to talk about a falcon on a flight.