part one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Q7RmLYXvCmI.html *edit: if you leave an unnecessary hateful comment toward brennan, anyone else in the video, or toward myself, it’s just gonna be deleted in an attempt to keep the comment section a safe and happy place, so there’s really no point in leaving it in the first place.* videos included: one of the “make some noise” game changer episodes a different “make some noise” game changer episode “brennan lee mulligan cries out for help” first episode of “make some noise” “a crown of candy” “yes or no” i’m not going to make a third part of the brennan monologue comps due to them always being copyright claimed, but i’m always open to other video suggestions!
I know how it is for Matt though. If you're the artist of something you're never going to think it's finished. There's always something to tweak, something you could have done just a bit better, something that makes you go "ooh" when you look at it a month later. A good work of art is never really finished. But at some point, you have to get the work out there. You have to say "I'm done" and give your baby away. You know what happens to artists who never give their baby away? The work never gets out there! They never get known! Until one day, after the end of a long life of cleaning the floors in a hospital, someone goes through your old junk and discovers this -- this THING, that you've been working on your entire life, this grand sprawling epic tale, this thing that would have made you famous, or perhaps infamous, only you only get to be famous posthumously, because you were a chicken. On the other hand maybe it was better for Henry Darger to escape before he had to answer any questions about his book "The Realms of the Unreal" because there is some wild shit in there.
@@Madcapredcap Thank you for introducing me to Henry Darger. I hadn't heard of him before. Reading his wikipedia page and his last diary entry just broke my heart.
Theres a spot in the speech where you can actually see the prospector's brain start putting the pieces together and quickly figure out its a scam, only to revert back to the good 'ol prospector we know
Oh boy I did not expect "You Know What I Always Hated About You" to make it. Honestly most of Brennan's speeches can be described as Shakespearean, but that one is just a class of its own. I know for a fact people used it as an audition monologue and actually _got the part._
someone suggested it under the last one and i was like. ooh i gotta fucking use it. it’s such an incredibly constructed monologue, and it doesn’t fall under his normal “chaotic” monologues like those from “yes or no” and “don’t trash talk new york”. it brings everything together, ties up so many loose knots, and the delivery is just. chef’s fucking kiss. calroy being half-ceresian and no one fully putting that together until that monologue is just so perfect.
@@he.said.teenjiejer brennan dropped a tremendous amount of lore and clues on calroy that none of the party picked up... Like the fact that calroy wasnt born in line for the lordship of muffinfield. He married into it, by marrying lady donetta cruller, also a half ceresian, who wasnt even in line for it either. If the party had gone and done some heavy insight checks, there would likely have been an entire plot line regarding the demise of lady donettas brother at the hands of calroy. And then even more threads connecting her to ceresia. Plus, brennan just casually drops that calroy is one of 8 octuplets, who were born at the same time and were separated from each other in a bris like operation... And considering calroys marriage to donetta probably included his fathers estate as a dowry of sorts, since she likely wouldn't have been allowed to marry him had it not, calroy likely murdered all of his brothers. If he hadnt he would just have been a commoner with nothing to his name. The intense lore here is insane...
@@he.said.teenjiejer if i remember correctly he drops the octuplets hint in one of the 1st 3 episodes. Its just an offhand thing, when emily asks how cakes are born in calorum, trying to poke holes in his universe. Because it was a jokey moment, no one noted it down, and no one asked questions.
My friend used “The Yes or No Monologue” for an audition and got the fuckin part - they started reciting the script and I was like “oh my god no way in hell”
My two crowning achievements in acting were both with the same teacher/director. This comment was way too long with context, but I got an A for a monologue from Othello, which I had been in (in a different role) my Freshman year in high school (six years prior) which that same professor had directed after she warned me that she'd be grading me extra harshly, as a result. She told me it was the most frightening Iago she had seen in a long time. And then she gave me extra credit for performing a monologue from The Breakfast Club, despite normally not allowing monologues from movies we'd seen (she also let me sub in for a scene from Pulp Fiction, but I'd never seen it, at the time, so...). She didn't even throw a shoe at me once the entire day! Edit a week later: for the record, the shoe thing isn't a joke, she was almost as good at throwing her shoes as my mom, _and my mom is Mexican._ For additional context, this is the same woman who roasted me during Senior Goodbyes a couple years previously for an incident that happened _my freshman year,_ in my _very first_ production, ever. The woman holds grudges, is what I'm saying. So getting such high praise, _in front of an entire class of people,_ felt like winning a goddamned Oscar. Or Tony, as I guess would be more appropriate.
For some of these, there's absolutely no way he didn't have some parts of it already in his back pocket from something else, and I love that he got to apply them so well. But his ability to either seamlessly blend them in or actually just make them up on the spot is some of the most impressive shit I've ever seen in an improvised performance
There's absolutely a way he didn't have these ready to go -- it's called "training in improv," which he has a ton of. He studies, he practices, he works at the ability to string together a mostly-coherent sequence of patter extemporaneously. For the Crown of Candy stuff, he obviously has notes and prompts that he refers to during the speech, in order to remind himself of the beats he wants to hit, but that's standard DM stuff, and most DMs I know do something similar. For everything else, it's a skill that can be developed, and it helps that he's got a good brain for trivia and how to use language. Even in the "I cannot win" rant (which is phenomenal), you can spot a few points where he slows himself up ("Hello! A little late addition...", "What do you think that means? Icarus...", etc.), leaning on some non-specific filler that he doesn't have to actively think too hard about while prepping for the next segment of where he's going. When you know enough stuff, and you've studied how to talk good off the top of your head, and you've practiced in sink-or-swim environments (in front of live audiences, for example), you get pretty good at this stuff, as it turns out.
@@RhombusObstacle Oh, I completely agree with you. It may sound odd, but I actually wrote this comment with a hefty background in improv, just not as much of the technical knowledge he has in literature and similar areas. I just love seeing him with that feeling of "I've been waiting to use this, now to madlibs it up and slot it in here and it'll sound fucking hilarious and awesome", having experienced it to lesser degrees myself
Brennan is the only man I know who has the tongue of Shakespeare, the vocal chords of a Voice Actor, and the mind of Einstein. And still possess a rage of ten million suns.
Y'know, EXU Calamity and Court of Fey And Flowers were literally filmed at the same time, according to Aabria. So she and Brennan were taking turns dm'ing for each other during that time.
@@3ndlessL00p gotta be one hell of a mood change when Brennan went from "errrr I am a proper goblin!" To "you're trying to atone me, and I didn't do anything wrong."
fun fact: i have the entire “crown of candy” villain monologue written psychosis ramble style in a notebook while proving to my friend i had it memorized and it’s a very funny visual since it covers a solid 2 and a half pages
Thanks for the spoiler warning. Like Icarus flying too close to the sun, in my hubris I pressed on thinking "meh I probably won't get around to watching that one any time soon" but even with no context that gave me chills. I'm caught between being incredibly impressed ONCE AGAIN with Brennan's skill and being regretful about spoiling myself. Unfortunately I didn't heed your kind warning, but I thank you for it all the same.
@@he.said.teenjiejer I love doing that when rewatching/replaying things. If something is well written its so rewarding to catch little moments that hint at a character's true intentions, hidden right under everyone's noses.
That Shakespearean Monologue was fucking legendary. If I had a week, I could not have come up with something so good. Brennan did it on the fucking spot.
@@D-structman they cut it "incorrectly" in a previous video and got lots of shit for it then (including from me). So I'm just appreciating the "correction"
@@randomnamegbji I’m pretty sure the reason they were confused is that you put a full stop at the end. In online spaces that is often a way to indicate an abrupt or flat tone
I will be happy to talk about how cute Aabriya was in that pink outfit. She always looks on point and every time she appears I cannot wait to see what outfit she chooses to wow us with.
3:01 (to 6:40) I have no idea what any of this means. This is almost four minutes of plot twist that I have absolutely no context for so my eyes just glazed over and dead radio noise started droning in my head.
it’s extremely meaningless out of context. let’s just say that in context, it’s utterly heartbreaking, and an incredibly well-written monologue. it had to be in here.
Instead of reading it or watching the senior class do it, watch some professionals do it. It blew my mind that it was not just understandable, but actually good, and I'm a fan now after HATING it in high school.
My only life regret at the moment is not discovering Brennan Lee Mulligan sooner. Crying Laughing is the easiest way to describe how his humor hits me Thank you for the upload
My headcanon for The Shakespearean flight safety clip is that he's portraying a guy who flunked out of Julliard and landed as a FA for Spirit, and they just let him do his thing because they really don't care.
I surely hope that there's a "Brennan Lee Mulligan out of context" video out there- at least one if not more. Because the line "You know what happens to a man when he dies? He shits himself. So I'll be happy to watch you shit one last time" would fit _PERFECTLY_ in it
In the DM roundtable he said that since their homegame was meant to be a one-shot at first he started with one city and as it turned into a campaign and the party started exploring he spread out the world of exandria
@@rmoenmjea To be a little bit more precise; I believe that they even started in the town of Stillben. Tal played some dragonborn character, just cause he wanted a character that he didn't really have to think about and could be silly with, as he and Matt were the most familiar with TTRPGs at the time. Pretty soon after it became a relatively regular game, he dropped that character in favor of a more serious character, Percy.
i would love brennan to have a hand in a borderlands game where he writes and voices an entire end-game cutscene monologue for the main villain and the other writers just plot the whole game around it
@@he.said.teenjiejer Yeah, it's more a matter of being able to afford another streaming service, really, at this point. I almost got it just to see the extended Oreo vid. But between the extended vids, this, and dimension 20, it's an attractive prospect.
such a great compilation! may i also add that every single one of brennan's scenes in sophomore year as calina made me go INSANE. he is such an incredible actor when it comes to villains.
the Crypto Prospector will forever be oen of my all time favourite Brennan monents. Its just immaculate how he transitions from Braindamaged to filled with righteous Wrath.
Brennan bad 3 months to create a world for PCs to live in and turns it into a masterpiece, I have weeks of free time and I cannot replicate what he creates.
I watched the start of the villainous monologue, thinking "Oh, it's fine, I'll probably never watch that." Got 2 minutes in and had to skip, cause now I *need* to watch that.
I appreciated the spoiler warning!!!!! To honer you and keep myself unspoiled I shall play the rest of the video on mute for watch time have a good day!
Oh! I just remembered that he was a guest for a couple one shots on the youtube channel "Dorkly". I only saw the breakfast mascot one, but in it he had hilarious monologues! You should see it if you haven't, it's amazing!
oh i’ve been meaning to watch those lol! i’m not planning on making another one of these, at least not in the foreseeable future, but i appreciate the recommendation lol
