tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7657935912286667241.post-9743557494063229302008-07-18T11:32:00.002-04:002008-07-18T11:54:03.119-04:00I've been trying to write monologues lately. It's not my forte, I like to work a lot of jokes or puns into sketches, and if you have two characters this is easy, but with one character, set-up followed by punchline comes off as contrived. It's amazing how much more difficult this is to write than stand-up, since straight-out jokes are expected when you're doing stand-up.<br /><br />The world lost one of the great deliverers of monologues recently in Ronnie Barker. He had this great delivery of monologues, and I believe most of them were written by him and Barry Cryer. I'm trying to write a Ronnie Barkeresque monologue for a later Feral Chihuahuas show, here's a taste of what he could do.<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ucqFM3CtcNM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ucqFM3CtcNM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>George the Bastardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10674803800825513123noreply@blogger.com