Monologue for a man. Character George Simmons. It's early morning, he's feeling disoriented and frightened. It's from the medicine he's on. He comes into Ira's room.

Actor performing this gets to play disorientation, fear, and a strong objective with panic under it, to get Ira's help to take him to the hospital. Contains some denial at how bad he is doing at the beginning. Then discovery at just how bad he feels and he needs to get to hospital ASAP.

​Starts on page 54 of the shooting script for "Funny People" with line "I couldn't sleep." Ends on page 55 with "we gotta go now"

Monologue for a young guy, 20's. Character is Ira, a young standup just getting started. Not making his money as a standup.

In this comedic monologue Ira has to follow George Simmons, a famous standup comic, who has just done a very unfunny set in which he was clearly very depressed and reflective about his life. Ira has to follow George and has no choice but to improvise some humor about George's set.

Great chance for an actor to play the situation, which is rich in realistic detail. Ira is nervous to be performing, as he's new to standup. He's a bit thrown by what he's just witnessed Simmons do. He's reactive in the present moment commenting on audience members who rudely get up and leave during his set.

One of the strengths of this monologue is how Ira starts struggling with weak material about himself, then gains confidence as he gets on a role with the improvised material about Simmons. He's drowning up there and he saves himself by making a split second decision to shift gears and try fresh off-the-cuff material. There's a real sense of discovery for an actor playing this monologue, as your character is having these thoughts, inventing the material which is finally getting the desired response (laughter) from the audience on the spot.

On page 17 of Apatow's screenplay his lead character George, a successful celebrity standup, has a very vulnerable, very human moment. Prior to the scene he's been given a cancer diagnosis and the prognosis does not look good. Now up on stage at a comedy club, he admits he's scared and tells a few jokes about growing up in a family that didn't believe in a higher power or an afterlife. The jokes fall flat. By the end of the monologue, it's gotten so quiet in the comedy club George jokes that he can hear the freeway. No one laughs.

Some of the jokes might play as funny in audition, but really this monologue is one of George's more vulnerable and raw emotional moments in tthe movie. For a standup comic, the stage is a place where he can be honest and express what he's going through. It's a slightly sad moment as we discover he has no one he's really close to and its onstage where he's able to open up. Bearing his soul to strangers, fans, in a club.

You could certainly consider this in the category of dramatic monologue. Great balance of past/present action as his recollections about his Athiest family tie directly to the terminal diagnosis he's trying to come to terms with. And the anger, at the situation, at his father for not giving him a religious faith that could have given him comfort now, is deep and moving. He has a strong desire in the scene to connect, to find comfort for the pain he is in, to release it, to tell someone. He also is struggling wanting to recapture his life before he got the diagnosis. He wants to go onstage and be adored, like normal, and do his act, perform a short set, like he usually would. But he can't just do his standup like always. So there is great internal conflict here as well. Ahh! This monologue is just fricken deep and honest and awesome. If you're into bear your soul kinda stuff, this monologue is your bag.

Contemporary comedic monologue for a young man in his twenties. Character is Mark, a young comedien.

There's a very funny bit of dialogue in which Mark tries to convince his roommate Ira to go after the girl he likes, Daisy. Mark gives Ira an ultimatum of 10 days to go after Daisy after which he'll have no choice but to sleep with her himself.

It starts on page 10 of the screenplay with the line "Now listen I'd love to stay here and chat with you but we have company" and ends on page 11 with "I'll see you out there." There's enough there that in the context of a solo audition actors could play quick reaction beats where Ira would be interjecting in the actual scene.

Monologues for kids.  This is a monologue for a young boy and the character's name is Jack.   Genre is drama.  Falls into the contemporary monologues from movies and film category.

This is from the movie "Room" based on the novel of the same name by Emma Donoghue.  You can find it at 1:47 (one hour forty seven minutes) into the movie.   When I saw it, I was floored.   So poetic, beautiful and simply written which made it all the more powerful.  Imagine being a child who grew up in a room the size of a garden shed, who never saw the outside world.  Based on events in the news where women and their children were held captive for years but a fictionalized account.  The screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award for best writing, adapted screenplay and for a Golden Globe best screenplay - motion picture category.  It's star Brie Larson won best actress at the Oscars and Golden Globes. The movie is straight up moving; if you don't get teary eyed watching it you're clearly an android sent fro the future to destroy us, hehe.  The monologue I'm recommending from this film is an amazing snippet that could be a very moving performance for a young actor auditioning for a drama.  Vulnerable, sweet, innocent, yet wise.  The child actor should be able to play approximately five years old, though I think you could have an older child perform it and it would still be very moving and effective up to about 10 years old.  You watch it and see, the film is available streaming on the various video services or you can get it here.

Start the monologue at 1:47 in the movie (right toward the end of the film) with the line "When I was 4, I didn't even know about the world ... and now me and ma are going to live in it forever and ever until we're dead."  and you can end it just under one minute long with the line "Because it's still just you and me."  Alternately, you can extend it a little longer and end with "Bye Bye Skylight ... Ma, say bye bye to room" at 1:52.