Taking drama in HS and I need a monologue...

Xionide

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I have no idea what to look for. I kind of want something funny. It needs to be around 2 minutes. Does anyone know of any good monologues I could use.
 

zimu

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don't do shakespeare; its way overdone and generic.

(process of elimination? ;) )

maybe try something from a few good men, or a corny line from ROTK where sam and frodo are having one of their corny conversations (its definitely humorous if you sound really into it)
 

Xionide

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Originally posted by: zimu
don't do shakespeare; its way overdone and generic.

(process of elimination? ;) )

maybe try something from a few good men, or a corny line from ROTK where sam and frodo are having one of their corny conversations (its definitely humorous if you sound really into it)

Yes but that involves 2 people. I need something like maybe stand up comedy or something.
 

Jzero

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I've always had a love for a monologue about a guy who realizes that he is actually a typewriter. I did not realize that is from a collection of short one-acts called "All In The Timing."
I was very surprised to find the entire monologue reproduced here.
Search for the part entitled "A Singular Kind Of Guy."
The script seems to call for 4 people, but that is just the way it's divided for the play.
It shouldn't run more than about 5 minutes, and you can probably just do a portion of it.
 

Ticks

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American Psycho - The monologue where he talks about the new Huey Lewis and THe News record...or the New Genesis record. Its hilarious

Edit * found one
Patrick Bateman: Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Christy, take off your robe. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. Sabrina, remove your dress. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Sabrina, why don't you, uh, dance a little. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock. Christy, get down on your knees so Sabrina can see your asshole. Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. Sabrina, don't just stare at it, eat it. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favorite.


 

PatboyX

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Originally posted by: Jzero
I've always had a love for a monologue about a guy who realizes that he is actually a typewriter. I did not realize that is from a collection of short one-acts called "All In The Timing."
I was very surprised to find the entire monologue reproduced here.
Search for the part entitled "A Singular Kind Of Guy."
The script seems to call for 4 people, but that is just the way it's divided for the play.
It shouldn't run more than about 5 minutes, and you can probably just do a portion of it.

he has great scenes.

i would suggest a guare bit from 6 digrees of seperation. where the husband talks about going to see his one childs teacher.
or a chunk from art. those two are funny but would probably also require a certain amount of acting ability.
 

nater

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do Chris Farley's "I live in a van down by the river/Matt Foley" speech
did that for my speech class in high school and got an A
 

Xionide

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Originally posted by: nater
do Chris Farley's "I live in a van down by the river/Matt Foley" speech
did that for my speech class in high school and got an A

Oh man this is what I needed. I will do this.

-Xionide
 

Xionide

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MAybe I could do the robert dinero thing with the funny arabic names. Ijeet m'drurz
 

anxi80

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was gonna make a suggestion...but it seems you already got your pick... but just for sh%$s and giggles...who can guess what movie i quoted?
My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable break-ups, in chronological order are as follows: Alison Ashworth, Penny Hardwick, Jackie Allen, Charlie Nicholson, Sarah Kendrew.

(pause for a second or two)

Those were the ones that really hurt. Can you see your name in that list, Laura? Maybe you'd sneak into the top ten, but there's no place for you in the top five. Sorry. Those places are reserved for the kind of humiliations and heartbreaks that you're just not capable of delivering.

(pause for a second or two)

That probably sounds crueler than it's meant to, but the fact is, we're too old to take each other miserable. Unhappiness used to mean something. Now it's just a drag like a cold or having no money.

(pause for a few seconds?this is the scene where he sees Laura getting into her car from his window upstairs?could possibly do a ?look in the back of the room?-motion)

[exclaimed loudly, perhaps even yelled] If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier!
 

Xionide

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Originally posted by: anxi80
was gonna make a suggestion...but it seems you already got your pick... but just for sh%$s and giggles...who can guess what movie i quoted?
My desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable break-ups, in chronological order are as follows: Alison Ashworth, Penny Hardwick, Jackie Allen, Charlie Nicholson, Sarah Kendrew.

(pause for a second or two)

Those were the ones that really hurt. Can you see your name in that list, Laura? Maybe you'd sneak into the top ten, but there's no place for you in the top five. Sorry. Those places are reserved for the kind of humiliations and heartbreaks that you're just not capable of delivering.

(pause for a second or two)

That probably sounds crueler than it's meant to, but the fact is, we're too old to take each other miserable. Unhappiness used to mean something. Now it's just a drag like a cold or having no money.

(pause for a few seconds?this is the scene where he sees Laura getting into her car from his window upstairs?could possibly do a ?look in the back of the room?-motion)

[exclaimed loudly, perhaps even yelled] If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier!

I am still very open to suggestions. BTW isnt that 10 things a I hate about you or some sh!t?
 

anxi80

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Originally posted by: Xionide

I am still very open to suggestions. BTW isnt that 10 things a I hate about you or some sh!t?
ha, nah...i wouldnt punish you with some monologue from a teen-flick...its from high fidelity
 

Xionide

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Originally posted by: anxi80
Originally posted by: Xionide

I am still very open to suggestions. BTW isnt that 10 things a I hate about you or some sh!t?
ha, nah...i wouldnt punish you with some monologue from a teen-flick...its from high fidelity

"This sweater its vintage, and if you tear it, I WILL FVCKING SOCK YOUR NOSE!"

-Xionide
 

silverpig

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Oh, the wonder years...

I didn't realize it at the time, but with that conversation, my dad and I were the closest we had ever been...

:p

A real cool idea is to find some led zep lyrics that'd be good spoken.


Going to California Lyrics
Artist(Band):Led Zeppelin
(Print the Lyrics)


Going to California Lyrics

Spent my days with a woman unkind, Smoked my stuff and drank all my wine.
Made up my mind to make a new start, Going To California with an aching in my heart.
Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
Took my chances on a big jet plane, never let them tell you that they're all the same.
The sea was red and the sky was grey, wondered how tomorrow could ever follow today.
The mountains and the canyons started to tremble and shake
as the children of the sun began to awake.

Seems that the wrath of the Gods
Got a punch on the nose and it started to flow;
I think I might be sinking.
Throw me a line if I reach it in time
I'll meet you up there where the path
Runs straight and high.

To find a queen without a king,
They say she plays guitar and cries and sings... la la la
Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin' to find a woman who's never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself it's not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.
 

DaveSimmons

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You know what, Stuart, I LIKE YOU. You're not like the other
people, here, in the trailer park.

Oh, don't go get me wrong. They're fine people, they're
good Americans. But they're content to sit back, maybe
watch a little Mork and Mindy on channel 57, maybe kick
back a cool, Coors 16-ouncer. They're good, fine people,
Stuart. But they don't know ... what the queers are doing
to the soil!

You know that Jonny Wurster kid, the kid that delivers papers
in the neighborhood. He's a foreign kid. Some of the neighbors
say he smokes crack, but I don't believe it.

Anyway, for his tenth birthday, all he wanted was a Burrow Owl.
Kept bugging his old man. "Dad, get me a burrow owl. I'll never
ask for anything else as long as I live." So the guy
breaks down and buys him a burrow owl.

Anyway, 10:30, the other night, I go out in my yard, and there's
the Wurster kid, looking up in the tree. I say, "What are
you looking for?" He says "I'm looking for my burrow owl."
I say, "Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick. Everybody knows
the burrow owl lives. In a hole. In the ground. Why the hell do you
think they call it a burrow owl, anyway?" Now Stuart, do you
think a kid like that is going to know what the queers are
doing to the soil?

I first became aware of this about ten years ago, the summer
my oldest boy, Bill Jr. died. You know that carnival comes into
town every year? Well this year they came through with a ride
called The Mixer. The man said, "Keep your head, and arms, inside
the Mixer at all times." But Bill Jr, he was a DAAAREDEVIL, just
like his old man. He was leaning out saying "Hey everybody,
Look at me! Look at me!" Pow! He was decapitated! They found
his head over by the snow cone concession.

A few days after that, I open up the mail. And there's a pamphlet
in there. From Pueblo, Colorado, and it's addressed to Bill, Jr.
And it's entitled, "Do you know what the queers are doing to our
soil?"

Now, Stuart, if you look at the soil around any large US city,
there's a big undeground homosexual population. Des Moines, Iowa,
for an example. Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart.
You can't build on it; you can't grow anything in it. The government
says it's due to poor farming. But I know what's really going on,
Stuart. I know it's the queers. They're in it with the aliens.
They're building landing strips for gay Martians, I swear to
God.

You know what, Stuart, I like you. You're not like the other
people, here in this trailer park.

(R.I.P. Dave Blood)
 

Xionide

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Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
You know what, Stuart, I LIKE YOU. You're not like the other
people, here, in the trailer park.

Oh, don't go get me wrong. They're fine people, they're
good Americans. But they're content to sit back, maybe
watch a little Mork and Mindy on channel 57, maybe kick
back a cool, Coors 16-ouncer. They're good, fine people,
Stuart. But they don't know ... what the queers are doing
to the soil!

You know that Jonny Wurster kid, the kid that delivers papers
in the neighborhood. He's a foreign kid. Some of the neighbors
say he smokes crack, but I don't believe it.

Anyway, for his tenth birthday, all he wanted was a Burrow Owl.
Kept bugging his old man. "Dad, get me a burrow owl. I'll never
ask for anything else as long as I live." So the guy
breaks down and buys him a burrow owl.

Anyway, 10:30, the other night, I go out in my yard, and there's
the Wurster kid, looking up in the tree. I say, "What are
you looking for?" He says "I'm looking for my burrow owl."
I say, "Jumping Jesus on a Pogo Stick. Everybody knows
the burrow owl lives. In a hole. In the ground. Why the hell do you
think they call it a burrow owl, anyway?" Now Stuart, do you
think a kid like that is going to know what the queers are
doing to the soil?

I first became aware of this about ten years ago, the summer
my oldest boy, Bill Jr. died. You know that carnival comes into
town every year? Well this year they came through with a ride
called The Mixer. The man said, "Keep your head, and arms, inside
the Mixer at all times." But Bill Jr, he was a DAAAREDEVIL, just
like his old man. He was leaning out saying "Hey everybody,
Look at me! Look at me!" Pow! He was decapitated! They found
his head over by the snow cone concession.

A few days after that, I open up the mail. And there's a pamphlet
in there. From Pueblo, Colorado, and it's addressed to Bill, Jr.
And it's entitled, "Do you know what the queers are doing to our
soil?"

Now, Stuart, if you look at the soil around any large US city,
there's a big undeground homosexual population. Des Moines, Iowa,
for an example. Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart.
You can't build on it; you can't grow anything in it. The government
says it's due to poor farming. But I know what's really going on,
Stuart. I know it's the queers. They're in it with the aliens.
They're building landing strips for gay Martians, I swear to
God.

You know what, Stuart, I like you. You're not like the other
people, here in this trailer park.

(R.I.P. Dave Blood)

thats pretty good. sure as hell made me laugh, I reckon
 

DaveSimmons

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Originally posted by: Xionide
Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
You know what, Stuart, I LIKE YOU. You're not like the other
people, here, in the trailer park.
. . . .
(R.I.P. Dave Blood)

thats pretty good. sure as hell made me laugh, I reckon
The Dead Milkmen - "Stuart" (classic '80s punk)