monologist

“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, referring to the annual black-tie gathering of White House reporters.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2015

Press representatives for the event said the lineup would also include the rock band Mumford & Sons, the actor and comedian Russell Brand and Reggie Watts, the monologist and multi-instrumentalist.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2012

But by adding to his monologue unrelated offerings the monologist becomes an "entertainer," an "impersonator," or whatever title best describes his act.

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

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

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 Richard Le Gallienne