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Artie Lange
Age: 42
Height: 5' 9"
Birth Place: Union Township, New Jersey, USA
Born: Oct. 11th, 1967
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BIOGRAPHY: Artie Lange can be heard daily on the nationally syndicated "The Howard Stern Radio Show" (1998). He joined the cast in 2001, bringing impressions and an average guy prospective to the radio and E network shows. Arthur Steven Lange grew up a child of a middle class family in Union, New Jersey. At Union High School, Lange excelled in baseball, becoming an All County third baseman. Working long afternoons with his loving contractor father, Artie developed a comical view of social classes, and his place in life as a barrel chested Italian boy. After Artie completed high school, his father fell off a roof and became a quadriplegic. Artie changed his college plans to be near his family, taking up odd jobs as a clerk, labourer and cab driver. After his fathers' death four years later, Artie gave up his Port of Newark longshoreman's' job to play his first gig at New York's Improv in Hell's Kitchen. Gaining steadying success Artie pursued sketch comedy, helping to create the popular improvisation group, "Live On Tape". Doing improvisation landed Artie his major break. He was cast as an original member of Fox's "MADtv" (1995) in 1995. Hollywood success would bring down the comic with substance abuse and a possession for cocaine arrest. Mad TV fired him in 1997. After rehab, depression and a 40-pound weight gain, Lange found himself out of work until "Saturday Night Live" (1975) comedian Norm MacDonald (I) remembered him. Lange played MacDonald's sidekick in both Dirty Work (1998) and ABC's "The Norm Show" (1999). As a guest during a promotional tour with MacDonald, Howard Stern (I) first heard and liked Lange. Years before, Artie and his father listened daily to the Howard Stern Show.
TRIVIA:
- Avid fan of the New York Yankees.
- Is of Italian, German and American Indian descent.
- Has frequently joked about his bad luck with movies, naming "Mystery Men" (where he has a small role in the beginning) as his worst film, he claims his mother and sister called him from the movie theater to ask if he had any other scenes because they wanted to leave.
- Both he and his predecessor, Jackie Martling, appear in the 2003 film Mail Order Bride, though they have no scenes together.
- Joined _"The Howard Stern Radio Show" (1998)_ (qv) in 2001, replacing 'Jackie Martling' (qv).
- His indulgences in food and alcohol provide almost daily comic fodder for the rest of the _"Howard Stern" (1994)_ (qv) cast. There are few foods high in calories, fat, carbohydrates, salt or sugar that Artie doesn't eat in excess and his drunken exploits are legendary. Mr. Lange maintains a good sense of humour about his shortcomings, and enjoys his role as comic foil on the show.
- Claims he has seen _The Godfather (1972)_ (qv) so many times that he can recite the entire movie. When director Francis Ford Coppola visited The Howard Stern Show on June 8, 2009, Stern asked Coppola to request a scene from The Godfather for Artie to recite, he chose the scene between Michael Corleone and Carlo Rizzi before Rizzi's assassination. Lange performed the scene with only two minor errors and was applauded by Coppola and the cast. He later compared the experience to "singing Born To Run for Springsteen.".
- Known for his impersonations of Notorious B. I. G., Anne Murray, Brian Johnson, the Iron Sheik, Henry Hill, Larry Flint and numerous others.
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