ADEN ELAN HUMMEL: MONOLOGUE SUBMISSION FOR DRAMA CLUB
“I do. And I’m tired of pretending it’s not. Comedy is subjective, Murray. Isn’t it what they say? All of you… the system that knows so much… you decide what’s right or wrong? The same way that you decide what’s funny, or not. Come on, Murray… Do I look like the kind of clown that could start a movement? I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It’s enough to make anyone crazy. Oh, why is everybody so upset about these guys? If it was me dying on the sidewalk, you’d walk right over me! I pass you every day and you don’t notice me but these guys, what, because Thomas Wayne went and cried about them on TV? Yes, I do. Have you seen what it’s like out there, Murray? Do you ever actually leave the studio? Everybody just yells and screams at each other. Nobody’s civil anymore! Nobody thinks what it’s like to be the other guy! You think men like Thomas Wayne ever think what it’s like to be someone like me? To be somebody but themselves? They don’t. They think that we’ll just sit there and take it like good little boys. That we won’t werewolf and go wild!”
If you’ve ever seen the Joker movie, you’ll know that this isn’t a monologue in the traditional sense. In fact, it is actually a dialogue between the character of Joker and a television show host. However, I have cut out the middle-man dialogue here in favor of stringing together the point and message of the scene. While this is by far not my favorite monologue in cinematic history, it is up there. And, I think this is the perfect monologue to encapsulate my feelings on everything going on right now. I’ve seen things and had a conversation that were incredibly abhorrent. And it is obvious that the message behind these words, those directed at the people in power in the movie, are a perfect mirror of the point which some of those “in power” on this campus need to realize. I’m tired of the idiocy. So, this is my first choice of monologue.