(funny, and your age.)

Comedic monologues for teens

Funny pieces for teenage characters, which is the shelf every drama teacher and every fifteen-year-old with an audition on Friday is looking for. Classical and contemporary both; the public-domain ones print whole.

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    Elaine from The Graduate

    Mike Nichols · film · comedic · 1:40 min

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    Rosalind from As You Like It

    William Shakespeare · play · comedic · 1:52 min

    It is not the fashion to see the lady the epilogue; but it is no more unhandsome than to see the lord the prologue. If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a…

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    Robin Goodfellow Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream

    William Shakespeare · play · comedic · 0:58 min

    If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but…

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    Mercutio from Romeo and Juliet

    William Shakespeare · play · comedic · 2:45 min

    O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team…

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    Henry Apjohn (Her Lover) from How He Lied to Her Husband

    George Bernard Shaw · play · comedic · 1:26 min

    Our course is perfectly simple, perfectly straightforward, perfectly stainless and true. We love one another. I am not ashamed of that: I am ready to go out and proclaim it to all…

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    Student from Love of One's Neighbor

    Leonid Andreyev · play · comedic · 1:33 min

    He won't fall to-day, papa! Second Girl. Papa, Mary has closed her eyes again. First Student. Let us sit down, papa! Upon my word, he won't fall to-day. The porter told me so. I…

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    Betty from Mulholland Drive

    David Lynch · film · joyful · 1:14 min

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    Seth from Superbad

    Greg Mottola · film · comedic · 0:49 min

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    Seth from Superbad

    Greg Mottola · film · comedic · 0:51 min

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    Michael from 10 Things I Hate About You

    Gil Junger · film · comedic · 1:18 min

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    Landon from A Walk to Remember

    Adam Shankman · film · comedic · 0:47 min

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    Anastasia from Anastasia

    Don Bluth, Gary Goldman · film · joyful · 2:47 min

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    Damone from Fast Times at Ridgemont High

    Amy Heckerling · film · comedic · 0:58 min

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    Michelle from American Pie

    Paul Weitz · film · comedic · 0:58 min

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    Hamilton from Kids

    Larry Clark · film · comedic · 2:07 min

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    ANDY from Toy Story 3

    Lee Unkrich · film · joyful · 1:33 min

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    HOGARTH from The Iron Giant

    Brad Bird · film · joyful · 0:46 min

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    GRETCHEN from Mean Girls

    Mark Waters · film · comedic · 1:11 min

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    CADY from Mean Girls

    Mark Waters · film · comedic · 0:49 min

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    Paco from You

    Greg Berlanti, Sera Gamble · TV · comedic · 0:53 min

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    Tammy from Election

    Alexander Payne · film · sarcastic · 1:16 min

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    Tammy from Election

    Alexander Payne · film · comedic · 0:56 min

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    Olive from Easy A

    Will Gluck · film · sarcastic · 2:05 min

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    Olive from Easy A

    Will Gluck · film · comedic · 1:43 min

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    Olive from Easy A

    Will Gluck · film · sarcastic · 1:43 min

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    Sharon from Angel Eyes

    Luis Mandoki · film · joyful · 1:20 min

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    Wednesday from Wednesday

    Alfred Gough, Miles Millar · TV · sarcastic · 0:42 min

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    Cheryl from Riverdale

    Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa · TV · sarcastic · 0:58 min

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    Sophie from Aftersun

    Charlotte Wells · film · joyful · 0:54 min

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    Susan from Big

    Penny Marshall · film · joyful · 0:56 min

Length is estimated at a spoken pace of about 150 words a minute. Public-domain pieces are printed in full on their own page; copyrighted ones list the character and the source.

Related: dramatic monologues for teens · contemporary monologues for teens · a midsummer night's dream monologues: printed in full

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