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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 ...
"A Cream Cracker Under The Settee" is a dramatic monologue written by Alan Bennett in 1987 for television, as part of his Talking Heads series for the BBC. The series became very popular, moving onto BBC Radio, international theatre, becoming one of the best-selling audio book releases of all time and included as part of both the A-level and ...
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.
IFC FilmsShow, don’t tell. Normally, that’s a cardinal rule in movie-making—at least for everyone other than Aaron Sorkin. Using copious amounts of dialogue can be seen as a narrative crutch ...
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 ...
Monday's monologue wasn't the first time Kimmel fired shots at the football star. In March 2023, the late-night personality poked fun at Rodgers' "wacko idea" that reports about UFOs were meant to ...
Talking Heads is a 1988 TV series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television by British playwright Alan Bennett.The first series was broadcast on BBC1 in 1988, and adapted for radio on BBC Radio 4 in 1991.
Emma Stone joined “Saturday Night Live’s” coveted Five-Timers Club this Saturday, and was welcomed into “SNL her-story” by Tina Fey and Candice Bergen during her monologue. Fey and ...