monologist
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Bernhard was a monologist fueled by energetic misanthropy, disgust and vitriol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2022
“He’s done some really good work as a monologist at those correspondents’ dinners — that’s how he qualifies to be on the show,” Seinfeld said.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 25, 2016
Each week, a celebrity guest monologist tells stories from their life, which the UCB’s best improvisers then use as inspiration for a long-form show.
From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2016
While she travels extensively and speaks to everyone, she stresses that her monologues are fictional but based on reality, sidestepping the mess that monologist Mike Daisey faced when he admitted to making up conversations.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2012
Renard was fairly started; he had the bit of the born monologist between his teeth; he stopped barely long enough to hear even an echoing assent.
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
It seems to me that TV comedy studio recordings favour dead-eyed autocue gobbling monologists, indifferent to the reality of the room, and penalise proper live performers who are the best really.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 31, 2013
Now two wondrous monologists, Lily Tomlin and Eric Bogosian, offer movie- goers a peek into beautiful and diseased minds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Junior Programs' repertoire also includes marionets, monologists, films, musicians.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why do all the local monologists speak--I dare say, mind you, if I may say so--in polite British locutions?
From Time Magazine Archive
It is for precisely this purpose of weeding out the good points and gags from the bad that even famous monologists "hide away," under other names, in very small houses for try-outs.
From Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page
