Artie Lange hospitalized

I've heard a chunk of his standup. I thought it was painfully unfunny. Just a guy who can't deliver a joke for shit telling stories that aren't nearly as good as he seems to think they are.

(And for what it's worth, I'm not a Howard Stern listener, so I had no preconceived expectations. Fans may have a different experience.)

 

I've listened to Stern for the better part of 20 years.
I don't recall one thing Lange said that had me laugh out loud that there wasn't a softball thrown up by someone else.
That may be why I kind of enjoyed it. I think he works well in a group setting, but he's probably way too arrogant for that.

 

I listened to Stern back in the day when they transitioned from Jackie the Joke man to Artie Lange. I'm honestly not sure I ever laughed at anything Lange said and he's why I quit listening to Stern among other reasons.

 

Was working in NYC a few years ago and Artie was appearing at the Comedy Cellar. Only reason I decided to go (although I've always enjoyed going there). As somebody said, he was painfully unfunny. It was almost as if he didn't care. Now, as they're winding down, I look over my shoulder since I was sitting near the kitchen/bar and who is standing there but Ben Bailey of Cash Cab fame. He did 45 minutes and after a slow start, the final 30-35 minutes were freaking hysterical. My jaws were hurting from laughing so hard when I left.

 

I'm a Jackie guy, too, but Artie did provide a jolt of sorts when he came on board. It's amazing how both are now so bitter over the Stern thing.

 

In the Jackie era, Howard was first among relative equals. Artie was of a generation that grew up on Howard and therefore took a subservient role. Along with Howard’s divorce, it changed the dynamic of the show permanently for the worse.

As I wrote on an earlier thread, it’s obvious that Artie has no self-esteem and he felt that he needed to engage in self-destructive behavior in order to justify his spot on the show. It’s sad.

 

I remember listening in the mid-'90s. He was never going to be Imus, until he became Imus.

 

Exactly.

 

Artie is now tweeting in tongues. His stupid is too strong for me to try and decipher it.

 

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I don't know anything about this person other than what I hear from --sort of in a distance-- I guess you could say, in passing. Has he ever said what happened to him in his life to make him such a tortured soul? I wonder if we knew about the childhood of these type of celebrities or other people in public who are like this , if it would ever help in stopping some of these awful cycles of behavior?

 

Artie talks about his past a lot. I think he'd attribute at least some of his troubles to a particular trauma: his father falling off a ladder while installing an antenna and becoming a quadriplegic.