What do I look for in a man? Oh, what every simple woman wants, I suppose. Her description makes this monologue a fun one for women. Plot – Trapped in the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh’s tomb, Veronica Melville tries to get rid of her boredom by describing her ‘perfect man’ to a sailor, Rodney Gunther, whom she just met. I’ll write to him a very taunting letter, and thou shalt bear it. But that’s all one omittance is no quittance. There be some women, Silvius, had they marked him in parcels as I did, would have gone near to fall in love with him but, for my part, I love him not nor hate him not and yet I have more cause to hate him than to love him for what had he to do to chide at me? He said mine eyes were black and my hair black and, now I am rememb’red, scorned at me. There was a pretty redness in his lip, a little riper and more lusty red than that mixed in his cheek ’twas just the difference betwixt the constant red and mingled damask. He is not very tall yet for his year’s he’s tall. The best thing in him is his complexion and faster than his tongue did make offense, his eye did heal it up. It is a pretty youth not very pretty But sure he’s proud and yet his pride becomes him. But what care I for words? Yet words do well, when he that speaks them pleases those that hear. Think not I love him, though I ask for him ‘Tis but a peevish boy yet he talks well. The funny bit of this Shakespearean classic is the fact that Phebe tries hard to disguise her love for Ganymede in the form of the challenge letter that she wants to send to him via Silvius. Plot – Here is a young maiden, Phebe’s description of her newfound love - Ganymede - to her friend, Silvius, who’s secretly in love with her. So, if you want to experiment with comedy, or simply want to entertain your guests, the monologues given below could just do the trick for you. More often than not, these are uninterrupted monologues or soliloquy, which the character may be delivering to the audience, or could just be talking to himself. If you’ve been to a play, drama, or watched a comedy film, you are bound to remember some lines from it that still get you into splits. Funny monologues have been an integral part of acting, drama and movies.