He speaks at a glacial pace, digesting a question at length before delivering his answer with the baritone authority of a seasoned monologist.
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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.
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Daniel Kitson, the British monologist known for his winding narrative brainteasers, returns to St. Ann's Warehouse with "Mouse: The Persistence of an Unlikely Thought" (Nov. 9).
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The group was joined by Fey as the monologist: the person in charge of telling stories based off of a suggestion from the crowd that the performers then have to use to build the fully improvised scenes.
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Daniel Cockburn plays both a fictional version of himself and his "fictionally dead father". The fictional Cockburn is himself conceived as split between the "monologist" who delivers the introspective eulogy, and "the projectionist who destroys the film after its projected." At the end, Cockburn the monologist steps back to take the place of Cockburn the projectionist, and Cockburn the projectionist steps forward to take the place of Cockburn the monologist.
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Kitty Cheatham Catharine Smiley Cheatham (1864 – January 5, 1946) was an American singer, monologist, and actress.
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Bobbie Louise Hawkins (July 11, 1930 – May 4, 2018) was a short story writer, monologist, and poet.
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Marshall Pinckney Wilder (September 19, 1859 – January 10, 1915) was an American actor, monologist, humorist and sketch artist.
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His is the pseudo-movement, where the doubling simply mimics the routine of a tautologist, of a monologist, and of a Hegelian dialectician.
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He was a laureate of the "Murex d'Or" awards in 2000The first night of the Golden Murex Award 2000 as Best Monologist of the Year.
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An actor delivering a monologue A monologist (), or interchangeably monologuist (), is a solo artist who recites or gives dramatic readings from a monologue, soliloquy, poetry, or work of literature, for the entertainment of an audience. The term can also refer to a person who monopolizes a conversation; and, in an obsolete sense, could describe a bird with an unchanging, repetitive song."Monologist." Oxford English Dictionary. 3rd ed.
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Jeff Greenwald. Jeff Greenwald (born March 6, 1954 in the Bronx, New York) is a best-selling author, photographer, and monologist. He now resides in Oakland, CA.
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Kelly Marie Carlin-McCall (born June 15, 1963)Kelly Carlin, A Carlin Home Companion, p. 264. is an American writer, actress, producer, monologist, and Internet radio host.
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Mabel Rowland (February 8, 1882 – February 21, 1943) was an American monologist, actress, writer, director, editor, and the founder of the Metropolitan Players in New York City.
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Is she a singer, a monologist, a puppeteer, or some kind of tinkering instrumentalist? Classifying such an act as interstitial performance art would be imprecise but efficient and accurate.
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Monroe Silver (December 21, 1875 - May 3, 1947) was an American actor and singer who was also a comedian and monologist using a Jewish dialect-accent in his performances.
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Williams in 1920 Bransby Williams (born Bransby William Pharez; 14 August 1870 – 3 December 1961) was a British actor, comedian and monologist. He became known as "The Irving of the music halls".
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Josh Kornbluth (born May 21, 1959) is an American comedic autobiographical monologist based in the San Francisco Bay Area who has toured internationally, written and starred in several feature films, and starred in a television interview show.
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The term soliloquist can apply to a monologist reciting a soliloquy, usually from a play, to entertain an audience. Passages in which characters orally reveal their thoughts are probably most associated with the works of William Shakespeare.
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Pamela Palenciano (Andújar, Jaén, 1982) is a Spanish monologist, communicator and feminist activist, internationally recognized for her theatrical monologue No solo duelen los golpes (Not only hurt the blows), an autobiographical story about gender violence through humor and irony.
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Eddie Lawrence (born Lawrence Eisler; March 2, 1919 – March 25, 2014) was an American monologist, actor, singer, lyricist, playwright, artist, director and television personality, whose comic creation, the Old Philosopher, gained him a devoted cult following for over five decades.
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The Free Association's headline Saturday Night show Jacuzii, and other 'special guest' nights welcome a guest monologist (frequently a celebrity) who uses a suggestion from the audience to inspire a truthful, personal monologue. The improvisers then use the monologue as inspiration for a series of scenes, which in turn inspire a response from the monologist. The Free Association has performed with the following guest monologists and performers: Ralf Little, Nish Kumar, Oliver Chris, Tom Rosenthal, Phil Wang, Rachel Parris, Cariad Lloyd, Mae Martin, Steen Raskopoulos, Brett Goldstein, Rose Matafeo, Sindhu Vee, Matt Jones, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Neil Casey and Jason Mantzoukas.
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Joe Laurie Jr. (February 24, 1892 – April 29, 1954) was an American vaudeville monologist who later performed on radio and on Broadway. He was born in New York City.DeLong, Thomas A. (1996). Radio Stars: An Illustrated Biographical Dictionary of 953 Performers, 1920 through 1960.
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Hull Daily Mail, 6 May 1935 p.3 Hull Memories of Gibb McLaughlin He performed as a comedian and monologist in music halls. In 1915, McLaughlin married Eleanor Morton, youngest daughter of William Morton, formerly manager of the Egyptian Hall, London and the Greenwich Theatre.Morton, William (1934).
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16 Her nephew, Paul Draper, was a noted dancer and actor. Draper's second cousin was the society architect Paul Phipps, father of British actress Joyce Grenfell (Grenfell's career as a monologist was directly inspired by Draper). Her nephew Raimund Sanders Draper was a heroic WWII pilot.
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Loney Haskell (1870 – October 20, 1933) was an American veteran vaudeville entertainer and theatre manager. He was a writer, a monologist, and a master of ceremonies. Haskell worked as the secretary of the Jewish Theatrical Guild of America and in that capacity eulogized his friend Harry Houdini.
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In 1885 he assumed his stage name, Gus Williams, as his permanent legal name. At the peak of his career Williams became active in the campaign to better the wages of vaudeville players and was the first to demand and receive $500 for a week’s engagement as a monologist.
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Rick Cleveland is an American television writer, playwright, and monologist, best known for writing on the HBO original series Six Feet Under and NBC's The West Wing. His 2011 play The Rail Splitter premiered at Carthage College and traveled to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (Region 3) in 2012.
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In The Dead Harlequin, the character of Aspasia Glen is an early attempt by Christie to portray the acclaimed American monologist Ruth Draper (1884–1956). She re-used and enlarged upon the idea in her 1933 novel Lord Edgware Dies with the character of Carlotta Adams.Christie, Agatha. An Autobiography. (p. 437).
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Paul Frisbie is an American standup comedian, author and songwriter. Although he is primarily a monologist, he is best known for his songs, which have been popularized through comedy radio programming like The Bob & Tom Show. Favorites include "Thank God You Broke My Heart", "Christmas Letter", and "Gaining One Pound Per Day".
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Although respected by his colleagues, among them Judith Holzmeister, and cheered by the audience, Kinski did not gain a permanent contract. The Burgtheater's management became aware of the actor's earlier difficulties in Germany. He unsuccessfully tried to sue the company. Living jobless in Vienna, Kinski reinvented himself as a monologist and spoken word artist.
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Ida Benfey married George W. Judd, a lawyer. She died in 1952, in her nineties (aged 93 years, according to her obituary in The New York Times), in Ossining, New York."Mrs. Ida Judd Dies; Noted Monologist" New York Times (February 15, 1952): 25. Her papers are archived at the New York Public Library.
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A dramatic monologist is a term sometimes applied to an actor performing in a monodrama often with accompaniment of music. In a monodrama the lone player relays a story through the eyes of a central character, though at times may take on additional roles.Pavis, Patrice (1998). Dictionary of the Theatre: Terms, Concepts, and Analysis.
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Ida Benfey, from an 1898 publication. Ida Benfey Judd (died February 14, 1952) was an American educator, elocutionist and monologist, billed as "The American Storyteller"."Miss Ida Benfey, The American Storyteller" (brochure, 1900-1910) in Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth Century (University of Iowa Libraries). She founded the Mark Twain Association, and was its first president.
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Joyce Irene Grenfell OBE (née Phipps; 10 February 1910 – 30 November 1979) was an English comedian, singer, actress, monologist, scriptwriter and producer. For her film appearances, she was cast in such roles as the gym mistress Miss Gossage in The Happiest Days of Your Life and Ruby Gates in the St Trinian's films.Hampton, Janie Joyce Grenfell, John Murray, 2002.
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Rowland wrote a weekly column, "Mabelle's Letter on Fashion and Frivolity" for the Cincinnati Inquirer newspaper as a young woman. Rowland was a monologist, who gave short, comic character sketches. She also did publicity, and managed her actress sister's career. In 1916, Rowland organized a wartime fundraiser, a cookbook, with recipes contributed by over 200 actors and actresses.
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Lileks is also a weekly guest on the Hugh Hewitt show, Pajamas Media's weekly PJM Political show on Sirius-XM Satellite Radio's POTUS channel, and a frequent guest and guest host on the Northern Alliance Radio Network program. Lileks has also been a monologist for the public affairs program Almanac, carried on Minnesota PBS television stations.
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Alexis Valdés is a Cuban actor, comedian, monologist, film producer, playwright, poet, singer and screenwriter. He was born in Havana, Cuba, on August 16, 1963. Valdés holds a degree in thermal engineering from Havana's Polytechnic José Antonio Echeverría. He rose to prominence in the 1980s, for his performance as Bandurria in the Cuban TV series Los pequeños fugitivos (The Little Fugitives).
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Stanley Holloway in 1974 The English comic singer, monologist and actor Stanley Holloway (1890–1982), started his performing career in 1910. He starred in English seaside towns such as Clacton-on-Sea and Walton-on-the- Naze, primarily in concert party and variety shows. The first of these, The White Coons Show, was soon followed by the more prestigious Nicely, Thanks! in 1913.
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Ezra Kendall (February 15, 1861 – January 23, 1910) was an American actor- comedian, humorist, playwright and author who was known for his depiction of typical New England Yankees.The summary - Volume 33, 1905, p. 2 accessed November 21, 2012 During his time in vaudeville Kendall was said to have been among the highest paid monologist in America.The Green book Magazine - Volume 3, p.
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Ralph Bingham (2 August 1870-28 December 1925) was a humorist, entertainer, monologist and violinist. He was born in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Hamilton Bingham and Jane E. (McClintock) Bingham. He went to public school and was also privately tutored, and earned a degree from Villanova College, Pennsylvania in 1906. He married Christina Lorinda Giles of New London, Ohio in October, 1908.
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And Everything Is Going Fine is a 2010 documentary film directed by Steven Soderbergh about the life of monologist Spalding Gray. It premiered on January 23, 2010 at the Slamdance Film Festival and was screened at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival and the 2010 Maryland Film Festival. Soderbergh had earlier directed Gray's filmed monologue, Gray's Anatomy. Soderbergh decided against recording narration and new interviews.
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He was a gifted storyteller and monologist, and his concerts generally had an even mix of spoken word and sung content. He attributed much of his success to his personality. "It is better to be likeable than talented," he often said, self- deprecatingly. Until it lost its funding, Phillips hosted his own weekly radio show, Loafer's Glory: The Hobo Jungle of the Mind, originating on KVMR and nationally syndicated.
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The comedy musical was based on the work of Haskell and Willard Holcomb with music by Albert Von Tilzer. Haskell initially gained popularity in vaudeville as a monologist. He then made a name for himself as a lecturer for dime museum-style acts promoted by Willie Hammerstein, introducing and discussing Hammerstein's curiosities such as "The Half Woman". He had the ability to entertain the audience even if the act themselves were unable to communicate well.
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Andrew Kirkpatrick is a British mountaineer, author, motivational speaker and monologist. He is best known as a big wall climber, having scaled Yosemite's El Capitan 30+ times, including five solo ascents, and two one day ascents, as well as climbing in Patagonia, Alaska, Antarctica and the Alps. He has also crossed Greenland by ski. In 2014 he guided Alex Jones up Moonlight Buttress, Zion National Park, raising £1.9 million for Sport Relief.
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Kambri Crews (born June 22, 1971) is an American comedic storyteller based in New York City and author of The New York Times bestseller Burn Down the Ground: A Memoir, a book about her chaotic childhood with deaf parents. Crews was spotlighted as a top comedy choice in the May 19, 2008 edition of Time Out New York, which called her an "emerging monologist." Crews has also been referred to as a "world-class storyteller".
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In 2010, she starred in ' and appeared in the short film Perra. In 2011 she shot another short, Aunque todo vaya mal, the directing debut of the actress , who had joined Física o Química to play Marina, the new philosophy professor, just after Freire left. In 2012, she performed in ' on laSexta as a monologist. From 2014 to 2016 she gave life to the character Rita Montesinos on the Antena 3 series Velvet.
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George W. Graham (1866 - November 10, 1903) was an American monologist, patent medicine salesman, and pioneer recording artist. Graham was born in Alexandria Virginia to George C. Graham (described in the 1880 census as a "huckster") and Mary E. Graham, an Irish immigrant. The family moved to Washington D.C. by 1880, where George Jr. would spend the rest of his life. George entered show business by 1892, but throughout his career, supported himself by selling patent medicine.
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Julius Tannen (May 16, 1880 - January 3, 1965) was a monologist in vaudeville. He was known to stage audiences for his witty improvisations and creative word games. He had a successful career as a character actor in films, appearing in over 50 films in his 25-year film career. He is probably best known to film audiences from the musical Singin' in the Rain, in which he appears as the man demonstrating a talking picture early in the film.
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However, neither venture was successful. He made solo recordings, both as a bass singer -- finding commercial success with his rendition of the "Gypsy Love Song" from the Broadway musical The Fortune Teller in 1899 -- and as a monologist. In 1899 he recorded popular recitations of "The Sermon on the Mount", "Mother Goose Rhymes," and "Death and Burial of Cock Robin." The following year he recorded "Lincoln's Speech at Gettysburg", and a series of recordings for children in which he recited fairy stories.
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Holloway in 1974 Stanley Augustus Holloway, (1 October 1890 – 30 January 1982) was an English stage and film actor, humourist, singer, poet and monologist. He was famous for his comic and character roles on stage and screen, especially that of Alfred P. Doolittle in My Fair Lady. He was also renowned for his comic monologues and songs, which he performed and recorded throughout most of his 70-year career. Born in London, Holloway pursued a career as a clerk in his teen years.
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Frank Sinatra Riobamba postcard, 1943 In 1943 Frank Sinatra's managers tried, unsuccessfully, to book him into the Copacabana, which was then "the hottest of the hot" of Manhattan's nightclubs. They settled for a three-week engagement at the Riobamba, which was experiencing serious financial trouble. Sinatra was offered $750 a week. The singer did not receive top billing; he was advertised as an "extra added attraction" under monologist Walter O'Keefe, singer-comedian Sheila Barrett, a dance troupe, and a choir.
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Ruth Draper's inspiration to become an actress came from the Polish pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski, a friend of her family.The Ottawa Citizen December 31, 1956 She made her Broadway debut in the 1916 play A Lady's Name by Cyril Harcourt,IBDb.com and by 1921 was becoming well known as monologist, or more specifically diseuse, appearing in monodramas. Thus, Draper dominated the field of professional solo performance during the second quarter of the twentieth century, performing with great success throughout the United States and Europe.
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Gray's Anatomy is an 80-minute concert film directed by Steven Soderbergh in 1996 involving a dramatized monologue by actor/writer Spalding Gray. The title is taken from the classic human anatomy textbook, Gray's Anatomy, originally written by Henry Gray in 1858. It was shot in ten days in late January 1996 during a break Soderbergh had from post-production on his previous film, Schizopolis. The monologist film is about Spalding Gray, the main character, who is diagnosed with a rare ocular condition called macular pucker.
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1994's The Jazzy Old Philosopher (Red Dragon JK 57756) showed that the veteran monologist had not lost his unique touch. The CD consisted of 58 minutes of the traditional and the new, with names such as Mick Jagger, Axl Rose, Boy George and Sinéad O'Connor dropped into the routines — "You say your grandpa's in the hospital again because he tried to make a citizen's arrest of Mick Jagger? Is that what's got you down in the dumps, homeboy?" He died in Manhattan on March 25, 2014, twenty-three days after his 95th birthday.
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Photoportrait of singers Ada Jones (seated center) and "Male Quartet" on Edison Records catalog supplement for November 1910. Quartet of singers surrounding Jones are identified as "clockwise from bottom left: Billy Murray, John Bieling, Steve Porter, and William F. Hooley". William F. Hooley (16 April 1861 - 12 October 1918) was a British-born American bass singer and pioneer recording artist who was popular as a solo singer, as a monologist, and as a member of several of the most successful vocal groups of the early twentieth century, including The Haydn Quartet and The American Quartet.
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The film begins with Will Henry (Jemaine Clement), a graphic novelist and art instructor, adjusting decorations for the birthday party of his five-year-old twin daughters, Clio (Aundrea Gadsby) and Colette (Gia Gadsby). As he searches for his longtime partner, Charlie (Stephanie Allynne), he ends up walking in on her and Gary (Michael Chernus), a monologist she's having an affair with. Charlie tells him that she's not happy with their relationship and is leaving him for Gary. A year later, Will lives in a smaller house and sees his daughters on the weekend.
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He also, returned to co-star with Sharon, Lois & Bram in their 1994 home video titled Candles, Snow & Mistletoe, produced by Glen Roven. Redican performed a number of times in Toronto as a comic monologist in small shows at the Rivoli as well as in "The Cheese Stands Alone" and "My Private Hell On Ten Dollars a Day" at the Factory Theatre. His show "Stop Being Stupid" ran at the Tim Sim's Theatre and received rave reviews. "The Devil's Progress Report" enjoyed a short run in a Vancouver theatre.
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An earlier version of Sherlocko, entitled Knocko the Monk, spawned a fad of nicknames ending in O, which prompted a vaudeville monologist named Art Fisher, while playing poker with four brothers who performed together, to give them all such names.Joe Adamson, Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo: A Celebration of the Marx Brothers New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973. One of the brothers got a name that belonged to one of the characters in the strip: Groucho, one of the monks. Fisher named the other brothers Harpo, Chicko (later re-spelled "Chico") and Gummo.
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For various record labels, he recorded 78rpm discs of parodies like "Cohen on the Telephone" and "Cohen Phones to His Friend Levy". Joe Hayman first recorded the monologue "Cohen on the Telephone" in London in July 1913 for Regal Records and released in the U.S. by Columbia Records. Lee De Forest recorded Silver doing "Cohen on the Telephone" for the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The film premiered as Monroe Silver, Famed Monologist with 17 other Phonofilm short films at the Rivoli Theater in New York City on 15 April 1923.
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As a monologist and comedian, Albo has completed more than five solo shows including: Mike Albo, Spray, Please Everything Burst, I Can Only Come So Far, and My Price Point. Ada Calhoun, in her New York Times Theater Review of Albo's I Can Only Come So Far, notes that the show, "reinforced his status as the ultimate satirist of the downtown New York social landscape". My Price Point won the award for Best Solo Performance by Independent Reviewers of New England in 2006. Selections of his performance work appear in Extreme Exposure: An Anthology Of Solo Performance Texts From The Twentieth Century.
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Florentino José Fernández Román, a.k.a. Flo, (born November 9, 1972 in Sacedón, Guadalajara) is a Spanish actor, comedian, TV host and showman. He worked as a security guard before taking part in TV shows like Esta noche cruzamos el Mississippi or La sonrisa del pelícano with Pepe Navarro, where he impersonated Chiquito de la Calzada and created new characters based on this Spanish comedian such as Lucas Grijánder or Krispín Klander. He went on working in TV programs like El informal as a conductor; 7 vidas, as an actor; or El club de la comedia, as a monologist.
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The number of his recordings started to diminish around 1908, perhaps because he devoted more of his time to stage performances. Roberts spent long periods touring in vaudeville, where he became a popular monologist, and was a leading attraction at the Regal Theater in Los Angeles. However, he also continued to record for Edison, Columbia, Victor, and other labels such as Indestructible. He had further popular success in 1911 with his recording of "Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree", from the Ziegfeld Follies of 1911, and in 1912 with the earliest recording of "Ragtime Cowboy Joe", for Victor Records.
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After Swing Shift, Demme stepped back from Hollywood to make the Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense (also 1984) which won the National Society of Film Critics Award for best documentary; the eclectic screwball action-romantic comedy Something Wild (1986); a film-version of the stage production Swimming to Cambodia (1987), by monologist Spalding Gray; and the New York Mafia-by- way-of Downtown comedy Married to the Mob (1988). Demme formed his production company, Clinica Estetico, with producers Edward Saxon and Peter Saraf in 1987. They were based out of New York City for fifteen years.
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The Green Eye of the Yellow God, a 1911 poem by J. Milton Hayes, is a famous example of the genre of "dramatic monologue", a music hall staple in the early twentieth century. The piece was written for and performed by actor and monologist Bransby Williams.Williams, Bransby Bransby Williams by Himself Hutchinson, London (1954) pg 47 It has often been misattributed to Rudyard Kipling, who classed its author as being among his many imitators, and often parodied, most famously by Billy Bennett as The Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog.The Green Tie on the little Yellow Dog by Billy Bennett.
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She was born in Richmond, Indiana to Joseph Henry Cooke and Jessie Benton Cooke and attended the University of Chicago, graduating with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1899. She began working as a journalist soon after and by 1902 was touring the United States as a monologist. Several of her monologues and one-act plays were published in booklets and collected form. Her first novel, The Girl Who Lived in the Woods, was published by A. C. McClurg & Co. in 1910 and, like many of her future works, concerned the overcoming of conflicts between an unorthodox romantic couple.
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On 30 Jan 1909, the Montreal Gazette anticipated Laddie Cliff's "clever offering": "This little fellow is accounted one of the best English eccentric dancers of the stage."Montreal Gazette, January 30 1909, p. 12 Accessed 13 April 2020 The Harvard Crimson reported that "Laddie Cliff, English boy dancing comedian" would entertain Harvard's 1910 "pop night" on 8 March in the Living Room of the Union.Unattributed article in Harvard Crimson, 8 March 1910 Accessed 13 April 2020 In early June he headlined at the Orpheum in Spokane, Washington and was reviewed as superior, original and appealing: > As a monologist, Laddie Cliff . . .
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In their book Red Diapers: Growing Up in the Communist Left, Judy Kaplan and Linn Shapiro define red diaper babies as "children of CPUSA members, children of former CPUSA members, and children whose parents never became members of the CPUSA but were involved in political, cultural, or educational activities led or supported by the Party". More generally, the phrase is sometimes used to refer to a child of any radical parent, regardless of that parent's past partisan affiliation (or the affiliation of the child). Red Diaper Baby is also the title of an autobiographical one man show and book by monologist Josh Kornbluth, and a 2004 documentary film by Doug Pray.
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Ilya Mohadab Sasson () commonly known as Elias Moadab (6 February 1916 – 28 May 1952) was an Egyptian comedy actor, born to a Jewish Syrian father and Jewish Egyptian mother from the city of Tanta. He graduated from the Lycee school in 1923 and lived in the old Jewish quarter of Cairo. Elias began his artistic career as a singer (Monologist) in the famous nightclub «Alooberg» where he was introduced to Bishara Wakim and Ismail Yasin, they opened the doors for him to work in the films. Elias meets the famous dancer Beba Izz Al- Din, which also he worked with her for a period.
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He was a staff writer and director at Funny or Die and Onion News Network, the latter of which won the 2009 Peabody Award. He was also Head Writer for Matt Besser's Comedy Central special This Show Will Get You High in 2010. Kelly also performed at UCBNY with his storytelling show Chris Kelly: America's Princess Diana, and before that, wrote, directed and starred in the play, Oh My God, I Heard You're Dying! He was on various Maude Teams as both a writer and actor, including Stone Cold Fox, 27 Kidneys, and Thunder Gulch, and was a frequent monologist at ASSSSCAT in both NYC and LA.
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From there he wrote on the last season of ABC's Lois & Clark, the WB series Rescue 77, and the FOX reality series Murder in Small Town X. In 2000, Vlaming moved to New York City to write for the Glen Gordon Caron series FLinG. Though the romantic mystery series never aired, Vlaming's episode starred monologist Spalding Gray. Once back in Los Angeles, Vlaming was a writer-producer on the FOX series Keen Eddie and CBS's NCIS followed by USA's American remake of the English crime drama Touching Evil. After writing three scripts for SyFy's Battlestar Galactica, Vlaming joined the CW series Reaper as a supervising producer for its two-year stint.
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Tannen never intended to become a performer. As a young man, he was a salesman whose pitch was so good that he began to get offers to entertain at parties. He made his professional vaudeville debut at the age of 21, and soon developed into a monologist, the predecessor to today's stand up comic. He would frequently end his routines before the payoff of the story, allowing the audience to complete it for themselves, and exited with the phrase "My father thanks you, my mother thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you," which was co-opted by the young George M. Cohan.
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Fass has never been a brilliant monologist like Jean Shepherd who preceded him on WOR in the late 50s, nor a star interviewer. His style is to make a few gentle stabs at drawing his guest out, and then he's content to go with the flow. His singular talent, as Sand notes in The Radio Waves Unnameable, is for orchestrating the great mix; "For Fass, beauty exists in the way events intertwine... the art came in the complete presentation... and for better or worse, the divergent strands of life which Fass presented would have fused to form a lucid whole by the time he said, 'BYE BYE'." Unlike almost any other radio or television personality, silence never scares Fass.
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He was born Frederick Liedtke (several sources give "Frederico Nobile", apparently erroneously) in York, Nebraska to a French mother and a father who had served as a captain in the American Civil War and was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg. Using the stage name Fred Niblo, Liedtke began his show business career performing in vaudeville and in live theater. After more than 20 years doing live performing as a monologist, during which he traveled extensively around the globe, he worked in Australia from 1912 through 1915, where he turned to the burgeoning motion picture industry and made his first two films. On June 2, 1901, Niblo married Broadway actress Josephine Cohan, the older sister of George M. Cohan.
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Stanley Holloway in 1974 The English comic singer, monologist and actor, Stanley Holloway (1890–1982), had a 54-year recording career, beginning in the age of acoustic recording, and ending in the era of the stereophonic LP. He mainly recorded songs from musicals and revues, and he recited many monologues on various subjects. Most prominent among his recordings (aside from his participation in recordings of My Fair Lady) are those of three series of monologues that he made at intervals throughout his career. They featured Sam Small, Albert Ramsbottom, and historical events such as the Battle of Hastings, Magna Carta and the Battle of Trafalgar. In all, his discography runs to 130 recordings, spanning the period 1924 to 1978.
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Clark has written two plays, Binding Arbitration and Girl Talk, both of which have been produced. In 2000, Clark premiered the original stage play "Girl Talk" at the Other Side Stage Festival on a co-bill with young monologist David Sedaris. The premiere fell in the same week Sedaris' book "Naked" hit the New York Times best seller list for the first time. He has created numerous comedic shorts with the Second City team, co-writing and directing with many contributors including director Gail Mancuso whose recent webisodes featuring "30 Rock" star Jane Krakowski feature a modern take on two of Hollywood's most iconic romance films — Gone with the Wind and King Kong.
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Performance Space New York supports two ongoing artist awards, The Spalding Gray Award, and The Ethyl Eichelberger Award. The Spalding Gray Award, named after the groundbreaking monologist Spalding Gray (1941–2004), is sponsored by a consortium that includes Kathleen Russo, Gray’s widow; Performance Space New York; the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis; The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh; and On the Boards in Seattle. The award comes with a $20,000 commission to create new work and provides for a full production of that work presented by each organization. Past recipients include Tim Etchells, Richard Maxwell, Rabih Mroué, Young Jean Lee, National Theater of the United States of America, Radiohole, and Heather Woodbury.
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Thornton started his career as a "singing waiter" in Boston, Massachusetts, and then achieved success with his wife, Elisabeth "Bonnie" Cox, in music halls throughout the US as what was then called a "serio-comic" or "monologist" (essentially a stand-up comic) and singer. During his career, he also performed in a vaudeville team with Charles B. Lawlor. Thornton's compositions included: "When You Were Sweet Sixteen", "She May Have Seen Better Days", "The Irish Jubilee", "Two Little Girls in Blue", "When Summer Comes Around", "It Don’t Seem Like the Same Old Smile", "My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon", and the 1893 song, "The Streets of Cairo", composed for the Chicago World’s Fair of that year. Thornton’s last public appearance was in 1934 at the Forrest Theater in New York City.
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Griffith's early career was as a monologist, delivering long stories such as What It Was, Was Football, which is told from the point of view of a naïve country preacher trying to figure out what was going on in a football game. The monologue was released as a single in 1953 on the Colonial Records label, and was a hit for Griffith, reaching number nine on the charts in 1954. Griffith starred in Ira Levin's one-hour teleplay, No Time for Sergeants (March 1955) — a story about a country boy in the United States Air Force — on The United States Steel Hour, a television anthology series. He expanded that role in Ira Levin's full-length theatrical version of the same name (October 1955) on Broadway in New York City.
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Here Herta Talmar often formed a singing couple with Herbert Ernst Groh. With the orchestra Kurt Edelhagen a cross-section of the musical My Fair Lady was also produced, in which Talmar, however, only sang lady Eliza, while the flower girl Eliza was sung by the cabaret artist and monologist Talmar made numerous complete recordings of operettas and musical comedies on radio in the 1950s and 1960s, mostly on Westdeutscher Rundfunk with Franz Marszalek. Under the musical direction of Marszalek, complete operetta recordings such as Der fidele Bauer (1954), Die Försterchristl (1955) were made, A Waltz Dream (1954), Adrienne (1956), Gasparone (1956) and ' by (1959). Because of her pleasant speaking voice and her acting talent Talmar always took over the speaking role of the respective part; often in comparable productions for singers and actors separate interpreters were engaged.
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Kendall would find success beginning in 1896 as a monologist on the vaudeville circuit before returning the legitimate stage in 1902 with his play The Vinegar Buyer and later, Edward E. Kidder's Weather-beaten Benson and road adaptations of George Ade's Bad Samaritan and Land of Dollars. The Vinegar Buyer, Kendall's most successful play over the last decade of his career, was also released as a book. Kendall would author late in his career a number of humorous books that included Spots or Wit and Humor (1901), Good Gravy (1902), Tell It to Me (1903), Hot Ashes (1908) and Top Soil (1909). The Cleveland News Company, Cleveland, O. published a hard cover book with all of the following on the cover: "Ezra Kendall's Books / Spots / Good Gravy / Tell it to Me / All 3 Books in One / Lettering & Embellishments Created & Executed by J. Morgan & Co. / Published by The Cleveland News Company, Cleveland, O."Ezra Kendall's Books / Spots / Good Gravy / Tell it to Me / All 3 Books in One / Lettering & Embellishments Created & Executed by J. Morgan & Co. / Published by The Cleveland News Company, Cleveland, O. Inside there are two photos of Ezra Kendall.
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