Monologue

A person's silent discussion with themselves is called "inner monologue".

I'm working on my monologue.

Hearing those same events be made into a punchline for the monologue on ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ makes them seem less dire.

Don't heckle during the show. It's a monologue, not a dialogue.

Don't monologue!

Tom has no internal monologue.

Donald needs to get ready for his monologue.

Donald snuck onto an empty set and started to practice his monologue.

Gabriel started his monologue.

Powerful parents, in her formulation, feeling themselves autonomous and powerful, give autonomy and power to their children; powerless ones, feeling themselves passive and controlled, in turn exert an excessive control on their children, and monologue at them, instead of having a dialogue with them.