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
Bernhard was a monologist fueled by energetic misanthropy, disgust and vitriol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2022
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
“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
Yet neither of these can be classed as a monologist, because neither depends upon speech alone to win success.
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
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
Junior Programs' repertoire also includes marionets, monologists, films, musicians.
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
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