I just don’t like preparing, I like winging stuff. What goes into creating each week’s podcast? I've never been good at preparation. I do want to play a version of me, but right now I’m having so much fun doing Crashing. With so many comedians getting their own television shows, have you thought about creating your own show? Yes, absolutely, and getting a part on this show Crashing-where Pete is playing himself as a comic and Judd producing it-has really been fanning the fire. He produced MADtv, and he could tell I was just this blue-collar guy winging it. I didn’t feel like a seasoned actor-I felt like a conman.
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My first job as a sketch comic on MADtv was the first TV audition I went on. Those guys were characters.' I didn’t have money to go to Northwestern or anything, which is what he liked about me. Where’d you go to school?' I said, 'Nowhere.' He said, 'What do you mean, nowhere?' I said, 'I’ll take you to the New Jersey port, where I unloaded orange juice for a couple years. At the end of one scene that we shot, Judd Apatow was like, 'That was really good.
Was the transition between standup and TV difficult? What’s funny is I have zero training. Then I saw Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, all these guys in movies and doing standup, and I said I want to do standup, I want to do movies, and-I watched the Honeymooners and The Odd Couple-I want to be in TV. Howard had been on NBC and New York for two months, and he would come home specifically to laugh at Howard, and it was a bonding thing, so I said I want to be on the radio one day. He made a living putting up TV antennas in the ’70s and early ’80s. He climbed roofs for a living, he got to about the 10th grade, my old man, but he worked harder. It’s weird and such an odd thing in life: My father turned me on to The Howard Stern Show when I was 13 years old. Was that always a goal? I wanted to just be funny. You are no stranger to TV shows and movies. I had nothing else, so I kept going back until I got good. I said thank god I have nothing else going on in life or else I would’ve went back to college or any other skill.
I went home happy: I had the balls to go on stage. I said to her at the end of it, can you give me any advice? She said, I give advice to people who got by the audition. The woman that owned it, she was so nasty to me. I got an open mic, and I went on at 1 a.m. I took mushrooms, had a psychedelic experience, and when I came down from the mushrooms, I had the balls to drive into New York, and I parked in front of the Improv. On The Howard Stern Show, I heard an advertisement for Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead at Giants Stadium, and I went. I had been thinking about doing it since I was 16 or 17, and I never had the balls. The original Improv in New York City on 9th and 44th, in Hell’s Kitchen, not there anymore. SLM spoke with Lange about acting, standup, and his current projects.ĭo you recall your first exposure to standup? Oh god, yeah.
Lange currently hosts the Artie Quitter Podcast and is part of the new HBO comedy Crashing, where he has a recurring role. The comic also has two New York Times bestselling books, Too Fat to Fish and Crash and Burn (and plans to release his third book sometime this year). He was also a cast member on MADtv and The Norm Show appeared in three comedy specials and co-wrote, produced, and starred in the 2006 film Artie Lange’s Beer League. Though he’s well-known for his time on The Howard Stern Show, that's just one stop-off on a long and varied career.
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