"Some people told me that it was either Bill Maher or Robin Williams who suggested it in a standup routine.
Alex free associates for Spielvogel with a wild frenzy that some have suggested is owed to the standup comics of Roth's youth, and perhaps near-contemporaries such as Lenny Bruce.
But the reaction on Twitter to Dessau's piece suggested that not everybody – not all standups, at any rate – feel the same.
An anti-establishment party formed by former standup comedian Beppe Grillo, it has suggested it would call a referendum on membership of the EU.
Moran performs the feminist smile, calls it part of her standup routine, and says she suggested it for the cover of How to Be a Woman, but for some reason her publisher didn't go for it.
My own suggested picks are a selection of sitcoms, comedy features and standup, probably because the last five or so items I watched were of the same genre.
Williams described critics of these building developments as "neurotic" and suggested that most tourists visit Edinburgh during its festival for standup comedians rather than architecture.
The bond between standup comedy and fictional films, whether comedic or dramatic, is suggested in a movie where one might not expect to find it.
Stone also suggested that his landlord, a Spitzer supporter, had set him up, or that a standup comedian and impressionist had imitated his voice.
I'd been dating a handsome black banker-by-day who did standup at night — one of several handsome black men I'd dated that summer — and when he suggested we have dinner on the eve of my departure I agreed, because I suspected romantic pickings would be slim in Syracuse; besides, I enjoyed his company.
