expression at the instant of the individuality of the person voicing
them, is what is meant by the humor of character. For instance:
the German Senator gets all "balled up" in his terribly long effort
to make a "regular speech," and he ends:

We got to feel a feeling of patriotic symptoms--we got to feel
patriotic symp--symps--you got to feel the patri--you can't help
it, you got to feel it.

These five suggestions--all, in the last analysis, depending on
the first, incongruity--may be of assistance to the novice in
analyzing the elements of humor and framing his own efforts with
intelligence and precision.

In considering the other elemental characteristics of the monologue,
we must bear in mind that the emphasizing of humor is the monologue's
chief reason for being.

2. Unity of Character

Unity of character does not mean unity of subject--note the variety
of subjects treated in "The German Senator"--but, rather, the
singleness of impression that a monologue gives of the "character"
who delivers it, or is the hero of it.

The German Senator, himself, is a politician "spouting," in a
perfectly illogical, broken-English stump speech, about the condition
of the country and the reason why things are so bad. Never once
do the various subjects stray far beyond their connection with the
country's deplorable condition and always they come back to it.