monologist

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2020

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

While she travels extensively and speaks to everyone, she stresses that her monologues are fictional but based on reality, sidestepping the mess that monologist Mike Daisey faced when he admitted to making up conversations.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2012

Lady Arthur is silenced, for she has not the slightest idea what a monologist is.

From A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June by Ouida

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

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

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