Funny monologue for a cabaret?

[aces25]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 11:46am

Hi there, I'm looking for a really funny monologue for a cabaret to do. Something that can stand on its own (no context). Thanks!

[WOSQ]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 1:19pm

At the risk of sounding too flippant, this is why God, in her infinite wisdom, invented jokes and jokebooks.

Do not steal another comic's material. I once saw Robin Tyler, a gifted lesbian comic, lift a Bill Cosby monologue word-for-word, and it fell pretty flat because we all knew the bit. Cosby had performed it many times on television and recorded it on a very successful album.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 1:23pm

There's this monologue in Star-Spangled Girl, where Sophie tells about her strange feelings for him, that I always found to be cute and funny.

[madbrian]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 1:23pm

Sounds like the poster is looking to recreate a scene from a show rather than a comedian's bit. Don't see the harm there.

That said, there's a funny scene in Nunsense where Mother Superior sniffs Rush.

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 1:34pm

I'd do the 'Night that the lights went out in Georgia' speech from Designing Women. Fun, campy, perfect for a cabaret setting.

[darquegk]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 1:50pm

"The Joker Rehearses His 'Scars' Monologue" from "That Guy With The Glasses" is a fun one, if you can get yourself done up in the iconic Heath Ledger makeup.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 1:57pm

Do the one about the cab diver and the nun or the one with John, his mother and the soup ladle.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 2:05pm

Movie Monologues (some plays)

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 8/13/12 at 9:09pm

I'd do the 'Night that the lights went out in Georgia' speech from Designing Women. Fun, campy, perfect for a cabaret setting.

Great idea, Robbie! Somebody mentioned Suzanne Sugarbaker on another thread yesterday and I was remembering how hilarious-yet-moving that speech was when delivered by Dixie Carter.

Oh, if life only did imitate art and we could have such monologues at the ready when somebody really needs to be told off!