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Artie Lange Deathwatch
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Monitoring the Imminent Demise of Arthur Lange!
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Beer League
Artie's first starring role - in Beer League, a film he wrote and produced - opened in theaters last year. You can buy the DVD at BeerLeaguetheMovie.com.
Artie Clips
We found some great Artie video clips for your amusement. Please do enjoy...
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Comedian Artie Lange is best known as having informally inherited the role of the tubby, prat-falling sidekick in vehicles for Saturday Night Live alums, which was occupied by Chris Farley before his death in 1997. More restrained than Farley, but of similar build and acquaintanceship, Lange has rode his appearance and his exasperated comic deliveries to a handful of film credits and a regular gig on Howard Stern's radio show.
Born in Union, NJ, on October 11, 1967, Lange was a prankster from a young age and was held back from graduating high school with the rest of his class. Lange had the last laugh when he scored a recurring role on Fox's Mad TV from 1995 to 1997. After leaving that show, Lange began capitalizing on his friendship with SNL veteran Norm MacDonald, first appearing in MacDonald's revenge comedy Dirty Work (1998) (in which Farley also appears), then working with the comic on his ABC sitcom Norm, also known as The Norm Show. The real comparisons to Farley inevitably came when he appeared opposite David Spade, former partner of Farley, in the 1999 comedy Lost and Found, in which he was required to perform many of the indignities that Farley once performed. Lange has also popped up in such films as Mystery Men (1999) and The Bachelor (1999). ~ Derek Armstrong, All Movie Guide
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Select Filmography
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- Mad TV (1995) TV Series
- Dirty Work (1998)
- Norm Show (1999) TV Series
- Mystery Men (1999)
- Bachelor, The (1999)
- Howard Stern Show (2001) Radio/TV Series
- Boat Trip (2002)
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
- Old School (2003)
- Beer League (2006)
- Entourage (2007) TV Series
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Things That Annoys the Stern Show Staff About Artie
Bababooey: The thing I find most annoying about Artie, is that at the beginning he used to tell us there's nothing you can say about me that would upset me and we used to be able to joke and rag on him all the time but I'm starting to get the feeling now that he started to take it a little personal. It started out in Vegas. And I think he gets bummed out now when we goof on his drinking and we goof on all the other stuff. I don't think it's as funny to him as it use to be and I feel a little bad about it.
Howard: Okay, I hesitate to say anything about Artie cause he's so fragile with all the drinking and everything, you say anything bad and he'll go on a binge. But I guess my thing would be that he laughs at his own jokes a lot. Whenever he does that "Haaa Ha ha" you know that. That's my one little pet peeve with Artie but I love him.
Benjy: The only thing that stands out is everything is gay to Artie. If you watch Survivor, it's gay. If you drink diet soda, that's gay. If you read the National Enquirer you're gay. So everything is suspect of being gay to Artie.
Fred: What annoys me about Artie is he chews on his shirt sleeve. But it usually only happens towards the end of the show.
Robin: I love Artie and he seems like a really great guy on the air, somebody you'd love to hang out with. But whenever you invite him somewhere he sort of fades into the background and really doesn't do anything. You'd think he'd be the life of the party but you hardly know he's there.
Ronnie the Limo Driver: Artie makes like he's my friend all the time and then every time we're supposed to hang out, never shows up. Always throws me under, never shows up. That's Artie. I think he's a phony.
(6/15/04)
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