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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

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

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

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 Le Gallienne, Richard