monologue
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- n speech you make to yourself
- n a long utterance by one person (especially one that prevents others from participating in the conversation)
- n a (usually long) dramatic speech by a single actor
- Fallon's monologue was understandably nervous and unremarkable joke-wise, but there were glimmers of potential.
- Sometimes they involved his wife Miriam (to whom he was married for 60 years) or his pre-teen daughter Randy; his monologue about the 10-year-olds first training bra cued a .
- Strom Thurmond's last stand against civil rights legislation took the form of a 24-hour long monologue in 1957, which set the record (still standing) for longest individual .