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Born:
11 October 1967, New Jersey, USA |
Age:
38
Birth
Name: Arthur Steven Lange
Height: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Credited
Years: 1995 - 2006
Trademarks:
Impressions of Italians and Southerners
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Artie
Lange can be heard daily on the nationally syndicated The Howard Stern
Radio Show. 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, laborer and cab driver. After his fathers' death
four years later, Artie gave up his Port of Newark longshore mans'
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 improv group, 'Live On Tape'. Doing improv landed
Artie his major break, he was cast as an original member of Fox's
MAD-TV 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 comedian Norm
Mac Donald remembered him. Lange played Mac Donald's sidekick in both
Dirty Work and ABC's "Norm Show". As a guest during a promotional
tour with Mac Donald, Howard Stern first heard and liked Lange. Years
before, Artie and his father listened daily to the Howard Stern Show.
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- Joined
the Howard Stern radio show in 2001, replacing Jackie Martling.
- Avid
fan of the New York Yankees.
- Was
an All-County baseball player, as a third baseman for Union High School
in Union, New Jersey
- Has
become one of the favorite members of the Howard Stern Show during his
now two-year stint as Jackie Martling's replacement.
- His
indulgences in food and alcohol provide almost daily comic fodder for
the rest of the Howard Stern 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 humor about his shortcomings, and enjoys his role as comic foil on
the show.
- [August
21, 2003] The results of a DNA test taken on the Howard Stern Show show
that Lange is 1/4 American Indian. He is Neapolitan Italian on his mother's
side, but his father's full heritage has always been a "grey area".
He had only previously known of his German ancestry on that side of
his family.
- At
Howard Stern's official bulletin board, there are more members with
usernames created in his honor than any other regular on the show, including
Stern himself. Among those named after the comedian are Artie Lange
dead at 37, Artie Lange's Liver, Artie's Dead Dad and Filthy Drunk Artie.
- Is
of Italian, German and American Indian descent.
- Had
a small role in Jerry Maguire but his scene was deleted.
- Claims
he has seen The Godfather so many times that he can recite lines from
the movie.
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