monologist
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“Eventually I became what I grew up with, which is a folk music act with a funny monologist, making funny intros to songs.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
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
Like the grad student narrator of the sample, the other speakers are monologist interpreters of experience who struggle to overcome self-indulgence.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2011
It has just begun, because he must share with the monologist the pains of delivering the monologue before an audience.
From Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page
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
Professors of elocution — even in New York, highly-skilled and successful monologists such as Ruth Draper.
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
My friend, indeed, very evidently was a talker—one of those fantastic monologists to whom an audience is little more than a symbol.
From Pieces of Eight by Richard Le Gallienne
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