In this blog post I’m gonna focus on a comedic monologue that’s written in 6 quatrain stanzas and was brilliantly spoken by the legendary comedian/actor, Steve Martin.
In the hit Hulu murder mystery comedy “Only Murders In The Building”, Steve Martin plays Charles-Haden Savage who started a murder mystery podcast with Oliver Putnam, played by Martin Short and Mabel Mora, played by Selina Gomez.
In the monologue poem shown in this post Charles starts off by explaining to Oliver and Mabel how he and Bunny, played by Jayne Houdyshell, may be related. Then Charles reveals that he and Bunny ended up kissing in an intimate manner at a Christmas party sometime before she died.
This monologue poem is written in 6 quatrain stanzas where the 1st & 3rd lines rhyme while the 2nd & 4th lines (represented by an X) do NOT rhyme. The rhyme scheme is written like this: axax, bxbx, cxcx, dxdx, exex, fxfx.
If I were to perform this monologue poem, speak comedically about the potential unprotected sex that may have made Bunny my half-sister. I would speak comedically about how the intimate kissing happened at the Christmas party. I would also emphasize the rhymed lines by speaking them with more color in my voice than the unrhymed lines. I would also emphasize the way the Charles character says the words “And” and “We” alot, kind of like someone who says “like” or “ya know” before or after ever sentence they say.
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James Ivan 