talking head

noun

: the televised head and shoulders shot of a person talking

also : a television personality who appears in such shots

Examples of talking head in a Sentence

The debate was followed by hours of talking heads analyzing the candidates' performances.

Recent Examples on the Web

Due to the pile-up of NDAs in Musk’s trail and an almost certain fear of retaliation, there aren’t too many talking heads in Gibney’s movie that will surprise you. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 8 Sep. 2026

Tez shares his insecurities and mythology with Fogel in talking head sequences from land, but at no point does the director ever shake his subject out of the tunnel vision necessary to advance his project. — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026

These pauses also give the documentary an air of mournful respect, making its pace more deliberate than the standard talking heads-doc that might be mistaken as a stylistic counterpart. — Beatrice Loayza, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026

The dialectically deft characters in his movies aren’t talking heads but talking bodies, elaborating a world of cultural and rhetorical elegance from the sublimation of lust and the dream of love. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1964, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for talking head

• abovesaid
• aforesaid
• arrowhead
• casinghead
• copperhead
• figurehead
• fountainhead
• gingerbread
• hammerhead
• infrared
• leatherhead
• letterhead