monologue

I was like, Bill, instead of doing a stand-up show, I’m thinking of doing Dr. Phil with a monologue, some crowd work, we’ll do an interview and then play a game.

Charli’s monologue referenced how she got started playing raves when she was 15 by telling her parents she had swim practice, “at 2 a.m. ... In a warehouse full of gays.”

When he eventually explodes into thinking, delivering a monologue of disordered intellectual half-thoughts and rhetorical tics, the stage convulses in Lewis Carroll absurdity.

The performers gathered in the West Hollywood City Council Chamber for two presentations of “The Trans Diaries” — monologues that serve as vehicles for trans people to share their stories.

Because I was like, “This is it. This is the big monologue.”