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

That’s a sensation with which actor, comedian and monologist Mike Birbiglia has always been intimately familiar.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2020

“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, referring to the annual black-tie gathering of White House reporters.

From Washington Post • Dec. 21, 2015

Press representatives for the event said the lineup would also include the rock band Mumford & Sons, the actor and comedian Russell Brand and Reggie Watts, the monologist and multi-instrumentalist.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2012

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