21. Standup. The usual method of the standup comedian monologue is apparently casual connections. For instance, Elvira Kurt once started a monologue with the simple idea of bad hair. “As a five-year old, you never had bad hair days. You woke up with hair straight up, and you said, ‘I look great! I slept in my swimsuit and I feel wonderful!’ Mother made clothes for me—horrible outfits. She probably laughed herself to death. I got back at her. When I told her I was gay I said it was because of those clothes.” Note the deliberate movement from plain detail to plain detail, with great leaps between the details—the mother making clothes to the coming-out declaration. We are not expecting this transition (nor for that matter the simpler transition from bad hair to mother making clothes). But the transitions are funny, and they affect us, shock us even in this day and age. Write a 600-word standup comedy monologue, fitting it into a story situation you’ve already begun working on. Don’t make it obvious to your reader that you are doing a stand-up routine—just tell a story as if you were doing a monologue in front of a smoky, irritable audience, with a Late Show talent scout scribbling notes at the bar in the back.
-->This is a little hard to understand and not exactly what I want to try.
-->What I do want to try is an after-dinner speech, in which you stand up and address a problem that exists in our world. Humor would be recommended and to make it more creative the speaker should be something other than human.
ex) This is a Youtube video of the world champion of 2010 WIDPSC. He gave a speach pretending to be a vampire and addressed the issues of pollution, health and so on. It is quite humorous as well.
My after-dinner speech for the WIQ(world individual qualifiers) is about...
Pretending to be Frankenstein to address issues of stereotypes and the media that encourages such stereotypes. The audience is the society of monsters.
Ah I see. I heard about this speech. Hyeong Seok loves it. Really challenging but this guy makes it work. Glad you could make this work in terms of creative writing. Did you or when do you have to perform this? If you want to practice in class you are more than welcome.
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