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Stand-up comedy originated in various traditions of popular entertainment in the late 19th century. These include vaudeville, the stump-speech monologues of minstrel shows, dime museums, concert saloons, freak shows, variety shows, medicine shows, American burlesque, English music halls, circus clown antics, Chautauqua, and humorist monologues, such as those delivered by Mark Twain in his 1866 ...
Actor Christopher Walken performing a monologue in the 1984 stage play Hurlyburly. In theatre, a monologue (from Greek: μονόλογος, from μόνος mónos, "alone, solitary" and λόγος lógos, "speech") is a speech presented by a single character, most often to express their thoughts aloud, though sometimes also to directly address another character or the audience.
After the episode's end credits have scrolled, the BBC 1 mirror globe appears on screen, while a continuity announcer introduces "five more minutes of Monty Python's Flying Circus". [2] In the ensuing sketch, an unnamed man (Michael Palin) approaches a receptionist (Rita Davies) and says that he would like to have an argument. She directs him ...
Mikaela Friscoe, of Valhalla High School, performs a monologue from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the inaugural Eastern Student Artist Guild award ceremony at Manhattanville University on May 4 ...
The school is directly governed by the Gloria Christian Education Foundation, an organisation under the auspicious of the Abdiel Christian Church, whom oversees 3 other day school and 1 international school in Surabaya. The day to day management of the school is executed by the Executive Board, which members are appointed by the foundation. [7]
The nature of the monologues is that, despite being conceived for television, they can be broadcast unaltered in sound only. As such, they were re-broadcast on BBC Radio 4 between February and March 1991, the only difference being the inclusion of an introductory instalment with Bennett discussing their development. [ 4 ]
The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) is an administrative policy-making body for elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. state of Louisiana. It was created in the 1973 Louisiana Constitutional Convention, called by then Governor Edwin W. Edwards , and codified as Article VIII of the resulting document, the 1974 ...
While My Last Duchess is the most famous of his monologues, the form dominated his writing career. The Ring and the Book, Fra Lippo Lippi, Caliban upon Setebos, Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister and Porphyria's Lover, as well as the other poems in Men and Women are just a handful of Browning's monologues. Other Victorian poets also used the form.