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Contemporary comedic monologues for women
Funny and recent. This is the thinnest shelf in the corpus, which is also why it is the hardest search to satisfy anywhere else. Each entry names the character, the work and the length.
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Elaine from The Graduate
Mike Nichols · film · comedic · 1:40 min
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Aunt Lottie/Sea Witch from The Little Mermaid
Ron Clements, John Musker · film · comedic · 1:17 min
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Amy from Her
Spike Jonze · film · joyful · 1:25 min
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Betty from Mulholland Drive
David Lynch · film · joyful · 1:14 min
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Bella from Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos · film · comedic · 0:47 min
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Miss Crane from The Holdovers
Alexander Payne · film · joyful · 1:10 min
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Sam from Garden State
Zach Braff · film · comedic · 1:10 min
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Julie from Bad Boys
Rick Rosenthal · film · comedic · 1:33 min
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Anastasia from Anastasia
Don Bluth, Gary Goldman · film · joyful · 2:47 min
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Flora from Flora and Son
John Carney · film · comedic · 1:36 min
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Michelle from American Pie
Paul Weitz · film · comedic · 0:58 min
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Penny from Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
George Clooney · film · joyful · 1:16 min
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Maude from The Big Lebowski
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · film · sarcastic · 1:11 min
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Maude from The Big Lebowski
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen · film · sarcastic · 2:27 min
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Chris from The Exorcist
William Friedkin · film · joyful · 1:07 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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Lorelai from Gilmore Girls
Amy Sherman-Palladino · TV · comedic · 1:17 min
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Lorelai from Gilmore Girls
Amy Sherman-Palladino · TV · comedic · 0:48 min
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Ruby from Run
Vicky Jones · TV · sarcastic · 0:44 min
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Fleabag from Fleabag
Phoebe Waller-Bridge · TV · sarcastic · 1:03 min
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Fleabag from Fleabag
Phoebe Waller-Bridge · TV · comedic · 0:46 min
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Audrey from Here And Now
Alan Ball · TV · joyful · 1:04 min
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Goldie from Im Dying Up Here
David Flebotte, Jim Carrey · TV · sarcastic · 0:47 min
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Gina from How To Get Away With Murder
Peter Nowalk · TV · comedic · 0:43 min
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Claire from Modern Family
Steven Levitan, Christopher Lloyd · TV · comedic · 0:45 min
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Frida from Blink Twice
Zoë Kravitz · film · sarcastic · 1:14 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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Isabel from Bottoms
Emma Seligman · film · comedic · 1:17 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: comedic monologues for women under 2 minutes · contemporary dramatic monologues for women · contemporary monologues for teens
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