I forgot how much I LOVED this.
parker posey's monologue in
waiting for guffman
Note: This monologue is in the deleted scenes on the DVD of this movie. Parker Posey actually wrote this monologue that she performed as an audition in the movie.
Setting: In an hospital. Susan begins in a hallway outside of Billy's room. Billy is lying in a hospital bed, hooked up to a life support system.
(Susan walks down the hall to Billy's room. Knocks. Waits. Enters room. Sits in a chair.) Billy? It's Susan. I was going through my trunk of souvenirs and I found this doll: (pulls a doll - 'Muffin' - out of a bag she's holding.) the doll we used to play with before the war. Before you went insane. You were sitting on that quilt that had at one time kept us warm and it was so worn, Billy, and it smelled of mothballs which brought back all those memories of those times that we spent in the attic. Locked up. With Muffin. And you told us that mother was wrong and we were right, didn't you, Muffin? And I took care of you and Billy. But Billy was much more trouble than you, wasn't he, Muffin? Especially when he got to be bigger than Susan. And made her do things she did not want to do. Things that made her sick. And mother pretended she didn't know, but she did. Well, who's lying in bed in an insane asylum plugged into a life support system? And who's wearing fine jewels and expensive clothes? And whose husband accidently died just recently and left me all his money? (Susan gets up and unplugs life support system) And who's on top and who's on bottom, now? Huh?! Who's on top and who's on bottom, now?! (Susan gets up and begins walking to the door. Turns around.) I'll see you in hell, Billy. But at least I'm gonna have some fun before I get there! (Susan opens door and walks out.)