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monologist

American  
[muh-nahl-uh-jist] / məˈnɑl ə dʒɪst /

noun

monologists plural
  1. a person who tends to monologue or soliloquize, especially a person who dominates conversation.

  2. an actor who performs monologues and soliloquies.


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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

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

“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

It is one of those West-End speculations which are occasionally graced by a company of French comedians, a monologist, or a conjurer.

From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James

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

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

Junior Programs' repertoire also includes marionets, monologists, films, musicians.

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

Some monologists open with a song because they want to get the audience into their atmosphere, and "with" them, before beginning their monologue.

From Writing for Vaudeville by Page, Brett

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