I call this poetry.... and doesn't François do well !
Text here Listen to it here. François
Maupassant is a favourite with French students - his vocabulary is that of the journalist, but his eye for human nature is always unrelenting. As in this bitter short story.
Dupontel : Pause
I do a lot of humour. Partly I just like to laugh. However, sketches are frustrating. You so much want to follow and so often the punch line is just where the voice drops and you miss it. This is an example.
To finish this section, a little bonus. I found some software that extracts subtitles from films and writes them to text. Here is the script of L'Amant of Claude Berri. Read the text first, then watch the film.