monologist

Example Sentences

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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

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

Like the grad student narrator of the sample, the other speakers are monologist interpreters of experience who struggle to overcome self-indulgence.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2011

You must make the audience think the characters are bright—precisely as the introduction of the monologue is designed to make the audience think the monologist is bright.

From Writing for Vaudeville by Page, Brett