Max Alexander(1953-2016)

Born Michael Drelich on the East Coast, Max Alexander (sometimes credited as Maxwell Alexander) is a big-sized American stand-up comedian who also works for television (Pour l'amour du risque: Coup de théâtre (1994), "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" (1992), "Hollywood Squares" (2004)) and played a few supporting or bit roles in a couple of interesting feature films such as Sidney Lumet's À la recherche de Garbo (1984), Fred Schepisi's Roxanne (1987) or Nicholas Stoller''s _ Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)_. It comes as no surprise that three of the movies he was involved in are set in the world of stand-up comedy ( Punchline (Le mot de la fin) (1988), Milos Forman's masterpiece Man on the Moon (1999) and the much less palatable Stand Up (2007)).