monologist

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

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

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 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

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

Now two wondrous monologists, Lily Tomlin and Eric Bogosian, offer movie- goers a peek into beautiful and diseased minds.

From Time Magazine Archive

Professors of elocution — even in New York, highly-skilled and successful monologists such as Ruth Draper.

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