monologist
Americannoun
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monologists
plural
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a person who tends to monologue or soliloquize, especially a person who dominates conversation.
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an actor who performs monologues and soliloquies.
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They called him a monologist, and the man who talked about his father, which is the worst motto ever, the man who talks about his father.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2023
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.
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
A monologue must prove itself "there," before a monologist will pay any more than a small advance for the exclusive privilege of trying it out.
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
Roth and Elkin are both superb monologists, comic sprinters, which is one reason why excerpts from their longer works still seem satisfyingly self-contained.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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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