I can't find any short comedic monologues!

[ExpressThis]

Posted: 1/1/07 at 4:53pm

I need to know that play, and I can't seem to find a great less then 1-minute comedic monologue. It's so hard to find not only a good comedic monologue, but one that you can also read the whole play which is wha I have to do... :-/

Any Suggestions?

[EmieMarie]

Posted: 1/1/07 at 5:17pm

there is something from BeauJest, it is very funny, asnd since it is an intercut monologue you casn trim it, if you use it you coul;d stop at "I sort of made up a boyfriend"

[domesticMagenta]

Posted: 1/2/07 at 1:39am

You could use one of the ones from "Chicago," in "Cell Block Tango." You have to be decent to make them funny, though. (Not trying to imply that you aren't. I know a girl who used one and just is not a funny person. She bombed it.)

[ExpressThis]

Posted: 1/2/07 at 3:00pm

oooh thats a good one. it's not still on broadway right?

[WOSQ]

Posted: 1/2/07 at 4:07pm

Okay, this source is from memory so bear with me.

You'll have to get the script to How I Learned to Drive.

In it, let's say in the first third to half somewhere, are about 3-4 speeches by the character of an aunt who discusses the best ways to try to sober up when you are in public. ("Run your head under the bathroom faucet in the restaurant bathroom." "Hang your head out of the car window in the night air.")

These speeches can be spoken as a monologue because they sort of are one, just interupted by other characters speaking in other scenes.

[SarahBeth]

Posted: 1/2/07 at 4:11pm

"oooh thats a good one. it's not still on broadway right?"

If you're talking about Chicago then yes, it's still open.

[BananaFruitcake]

Posted: 1/2/07 at 10:00pm

There's a great monologue about being dead in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead":

Rosencrantz:

It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean, one thinks of it like being alive in a box. One keeps forgetting to take into account the fact that one is dead, which should make all the difference, shouldn't it? I mean, you'd never *know* you were in a box, would you? It would be just like you were asleep in a box. Not that I'd like to sleep in a box, mind you. Not without any air. You'd wake up dead for a start, and then where would you be? In a box. That's the bit I don't like, frankly. That's why I don't think of it. Because you'd be helpless, wouldn't you? Stuffed in a box like that. I mean, you'd be in there forever, even taking into account the fact that you're dead. It isn't a pleasant thought. Especially if you're dead, really. Ask yourself, if I asked you straight off, "I'm going to stuff you in this box. Now, would you rather be alive or dead?" naturally, you'd prefer to be alive. Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance, at least. You could lie there thinking, "Well, at least I'm not dead."

[Look_Out_Broadway]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 11:10am

a great show with TONS of good monologues is Laughing Wild by christopher durang... there's a few in there for sure!

[dramatothemax]

Posted: 1/7/07 at 3:33pm

Look into

5 Women Wearing the Same Dress
Anton in Show Business
6 Degrees of Seperation
Camanche Cafe

*Anything Neil Simon EXCEPT Plaza Suite, California Suite, or The Last of the Redhot Lovers*

I have a bunch of comedics from all of those. So check it out!

OH! Get the books Plays for Leading Women and Scenes from World Theatre...they're both Jesus.