Artie Lange back on the radio

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Filling in for Tony Bruno with Nick DiPaolo on Fox Sport Radio.

Live feed here.

http://www.foxsportsradio.com/main.html

 

[Gator]

Wait, so he's not dead?

 

[hondo]

Pig.

 

[Care Bear]

A stuck pig.

Actually, I hope this dude is OK. The details surrounding his suicide attempt were horrifying.

 

[Chef2]

A stuck pig.

Actually, I hope this dude is OK. The details surrounding his suicide attempt were horrifying.

Yeah. Not pleasant..
On January 2, 2010, Lange attempted suicide by repeatedly stabbing himself in the abdomen with a 13-inch kitchen knife.[

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I'm dying to know the whole story about this. I get the sense that the parting with Stern is not as friendly as Howard likes to make it seem.

The guy is damn good radio and one of the better comedians out there.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Stern's show has not been the same since Artie left.

The show has been really bad over the last few months. They need Artie back.

 

[Huggy]

I'm dying to know the whole story about this. I get the sense that the parting with Stern is not as friendly as Howard likes to make it seem.

The guy is damn good radio and one of the better comedians out there.

And Beer League is a ****ing hilarious movie.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I'm dying to know the whole story about this. I get the sense that the parting with Stern is not as friendly as Howard likes to make it seem.

The guy is damn good radio and one of the better comedians out there.

And Beer League is a ****ing hilarious movie.

Loved that movie. Very funny...

 

[Mizzougrad96]

When I traveled to NYC regularly for work, I would always hit the comedy clubs at night. I saw Lange (probably at the Cellar) in late 2001 and when they introduced him as being from The Howard Stern Show, he said, "They haven't hired me yet, I'm just filling in."

He was just working out material, but holy **** was he hilarious. He was doing some relatively tame 9/11 jokes and he stopped after each one and was talking to the crowd. "Is it too soon for these?"

He wasn't even the best comedian there that night (Giraldo and Norton were there too...) but the crowd liked him the best.

 

[Webster]

Based on people I know who live in hoboken who know him, he's a very nice guy -- too nice.

I think he realizes that he doesn't have the discipline to be on the Stern show (his dream job) and (especially) live the life of a stand up without giving into his demons.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Based on people I know who live in hoboken who know him, he's a very nice guy -- too nice.

I think he realizes that he doesn't have the discipline to be on the Stern show (his dream job) and (especially) live the life of a stand up without giving into his demons.

I've been a Stern fan for 25 years and I think Stern is at least partially to blame for his breakdown a few years ago. I'm not blaming him for the suicide attempt, but Howard would just lay into him day after day and while it was incredible radio, at some point you have to pull back and say, "What am I doing to this guy?" Howard doesn't or didn't have that filter and while that's why he's so brilliant on the radio, it's also why he comes across as a bit of a sociopath on the air.

Artie's problems were well-established long before he was on Stern, but the biggest reason why Stern liked him so much is because he brought along a neverending list of Cocaine/Heroin/Prostitute/Gambling/Drinking stories that he was just pure radio gold.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Joe Buck had no comment on Artie's appearance with Nick on Bruno's show.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Joe Buck had no comment on Artie's appearance with Nick on Bruno's show.

He and Joe Buck buried the hatchet ages ago...

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Based on people I know who live in hoboken who know him, he's a very nice guy -- too nice.

I think he realizes that he doesn't have the discipline to be on the Stern show (his dream job) and (especially) live the life of a stand up without giving into his demons.

I've been a Stern fan for 25 years and I think Stern is at least partially to blame for his breakdown a few years ago. I'm not blaming him for the suicide attempt, but Howard would just lay into him day after day and while it was incredible radio, at some point you have to pull back and say, "What am I doing to this guy?" Howard doesn't or didn't have that filter and while that's why he's so brilliant on the radio, it's also why he comes across as a bit of a sociopath on the air.

Artie's problems were well-established long before he was on Stern, but the biggest reason why Stern liked him so much is because he brought along a neverending list of Cocaine/Heroin/Prostitute/Gambling/Drinking stories that he was just pure radio gold.

Agree completely with everything you've posted in this thread. Even listeners could tell Lange was high as **** almost every day and was heading toward a bad, bad ending, yet Stern ignored it all for the sake of great radio, all the while trying to preach how they were "bros". Stern is a genius on the radio, but that whole saga told me all I need to know about him as a person.

If you haven't, search for "Artie Lange Addiction Saga" on youtube. It has hours and hours of tape from the Stern show, and you can literally hear Lange sink deeper and deeper into his addiction. Very sad.

The current Stern show is almost unbearable to me, and it has little to do with Lange. It's so obvious that Stern wanted the one final 9-figure contract and he has checked out when it comes to effort. Now he's cutting back to 3-day weeks, probably permanently? I would be stunned if he is there for the length of his current contract.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

Yeah, Stern is clearly phoning it in for the last contract. He's so good that he can do that and still be better than just about everything else out there. Three days a week and 40 weeks a year is just absurd.

For me, Carolla's podcast has replaced Stern as the best thing out there...

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Stern has become everything he railed against when he was just starting to make a name for himself. Divorced the college sweetheart and married the hot blonde model. Has a house in the Hamptons and is now as mainstream as those people he used to start wars with (Chevy, Rosie O'Donnell, etc.). The only time I listen now is when he has a comedian on that I'm interested in, and even that's becoming fewer and farer between. You always got the sense that Howard was all about the money when the fame started to set in (book deal, the E! show, then movie, then that God awful "Son of the Beach," now Sirius and Howard TV On Demand), but now it's just more painfully obvious now.

If this is what Howard was going to reduce himself to, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'd rather Sirius had kept Bubba the Love Sponge.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

He's definitely lost his edge. The only people he goes after anymore are either easy targets or his own staff.

He rarely has guests anymore. I have zero interest in the "Made for TV" Howard TV Girl of the Month promos that seem to happen way more than they should. It's been a long time since there's been an OMG! moment that used to seem to happen daily and happened quite a bit when Lange was still on.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Stern has become everything he railed against when he was just starting to make a name for himself. Divorced the college sweetheart and married the hot blonde model. Has a house in the Hamptons and is now as mainstream as those people he used to start wars with (Chevy, Rosie O'Donnell, etc.). The only time I listen now is when he has a comedian on that I'm interested in, and even that's becoming fewer and farer between. You always got the sense that Howard was all about the money when the fame started to set in (book deal, the E! show, then movie, then that God awful "Son of the Beach," now Sirius and Howard TV On Demand), but now it's just more painfully obvious now.

If this is what Howard was going to reduce himself to, I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'd rather Sirius had kept Bubba the Love Sponge.

I don't think there's any disputing that Stern is the current-day version of Don Imus. And considering how much hatred Stern used to claim to have for everything that Imus is and was, that's pretty sad.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Joe Buck had no comment on Artie's appearance with Nick on Bruno's show.

He and Joe Buck buried the hatchet ages ago...

Too bad I didn't hear about it. Nevertheless, Buck did look uncomfortable, which was the highlight of my life.