Yet neither of these can be classed as a monologist, because neither
depends upon speech alone to win success.

3. Not a Disconnected String of Stories

Nor, in the strictest vaudeville sense, is a monologue merely a
string of stories that possesses no unity as a whole and owns as
its sole reason of being that of amusement and entertainment. For
instance, apropos of nothing whatever an entertainer may say:

I visited Chinatown the other evening and took dinner in one of
the charming Oriental restaurants there. The first dish I ordered
was called Chop Suey. It was fine. They make it of several
kinds of vegetables and meats, and one dark meat in particular
hit my taste. I wanted to find out what it was, so I called the
waiter. He was a solemn-looking Chinaman, whose English I could
not understand, so I pointed to a morsel of the delicious dark
meat and, rubbing the place where all the rest of it had gone,
I asked:

"Quack-quack?"

The Chink grinned and said:

"No. No. Bow-wow."


Before the laughter has subsided the entertainer continues:

That reminds me of the deaf old gentleman at a dinner party who