monologist

Example Sentences

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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

So the monologue is changed and built performance after performance, with both the monologist and the author working as though their very lives depended on making it perfect.

From Writing for Vaudeville by Page, Brett