Sentence examples for do a monologue from inspiring English sources

The convention brought Oliver's former colleague Jon Stewart temporarily out of retirement to do a monologue.

"We won't do a monologue," he explained, raking his hands through his spiky bleached hair.

"I used to do a monologue from a one-act play by Tennessee Williams called 'This Property Is Condemned,' " Fey told me.

He has Hera, the Greek goddess, do a monologue about her philandering husband, Zeus; and he has Zeus recount a practical joke he played on Hera.

As she roams around the apartment, she says wistfully, "Oh, if only I could go to a theater tonight and stand up with a whole room full of people and do a monologue about my tables and my cleaning and my mail and my files, that would be great!" Ms. Berlin returns to her easy chair, where India is waiting.

Whenever I tell people that the thought of having a degree in creative writing makes me feel as though I have some control over my life, they laugh, but they have never had to show up for a theater cattle call, or do a monologue for three hostile people sitting at a table, glaring as if I owed them money, in an otherwise empty room.

There was an acting competition, and I did a monologue from "To Kill a Mockingbird".

One girl did a monologue from Lynn Riggs's play "Green Grow the Lilacs," as the others danced behind her.

He has no desk, but he does a monologue (which, like many late-night monologues, is hit or miss), and a likably spontaneous man-on-the-street segment.

I recently did a monologue for Teachers TV [www.teachers.tv] in which I played a reception-class teacher in a primary school.

For Winston: The scene in "Secrets" when he gets rid of Nick's sorority girls by doing a monologue as his alter ego Theodore K. Mullins.