monologist
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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
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, 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
It is one of those West-End speculations which are occasionally graced by a company of French comedians, a monologist, or a conjurer.
From One Of Them by Lever, Charles James
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
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
Junior Programs' repertoire also includes marionets, monologists, films, musicians.
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 Page, Brett
