Artie Lange

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Birth name Arthur Steven Lange, Jr.
Nationality USA
Birth 11 october 1967 (56 years)

Arthur Steven "Artie" Lange, Jr. (born October 11, 1967) is an American actor, comedian, radio personality, and author, best known for being part of The Howard Stern Show and the television sketch comedy series Mad TV.

Lange performed his first stand-up comedy routine at age nineteen. He took up work as a longshoreman to help support his family following the death of his quadriplegic father before he decided to focus on comedy and developed a stand-up act in clubs around New York City. In 1995, Lange was picked as an original cast member of Mad TV before leaving halfway through its second season due to cocaine abuse and his subsequent arrest. After a period of rehabilitation, Lange was chosen by Norm Macdonald to feature in his comedy film Dirty Work (1998) which, from 1999 to 2001, led to several film roles and a place on Macdonald's sitcom, The Norm Show.

In 2001, Lange became a member of The Howard Stern Show until a suicide attempt in January 2010, as a result of a heroin addiction, placed him in a psychiatric ward for eight months. Lange returned to radio in 2011, co-hosting a sports entertainment program with Nick DiPaolo; after DiPaolo left in 2013, the show was renamed The Artie Lange Show and lasted until its cancellation in April 2014. Lange launched his podcast, The Artie Quitter Podcast, in January 2015 and continues to perform.

Lange has released two recordings of his stand-up comedy performances—It's the Whiskey Talkin‍ ' (2004) and Jack and Coke (2009). He co-wrote, produced, and starred in his comedy film Artie Lange's Beer League (2006), and co-wrote his first memoir Too Fat to Fish (2008), which entered The New York Times Best Seller list at number one. Lange released a follow-up, Crash and Burn (2013).

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In 2002, Lange met Dana Cironi, his girlfriend of four years before their split. He then met his future fiancée Adrienne in 2009; the two broke up in 2014.

Lange has said he does not consider himself to be a "liberal," though he is pro-choice, a supporter of gay rights, and a supporter of unions owing to his former career as a longshoreman. Crumbs Bakery offered an "Artie Lange" vanilla and chocolate cupcake, with partial proceeds going toward the Lifebeat HIV/AIDS charity until its closing.

Although Lange has previously been critical of political correctness, he has since modified this position, saying on a 2015 episode of his podcast that political correctness benefits the world as a whole but is detrimental to comedians. During a 2013 HuffPost Live interview, he stated that he is "ashamed and embarrassed" by his previous use of anti-gay slurs and, while maintaining that he was never motivated by hatred and that he "still makes jokes about every group of people that there is", he is now more responsible when joking about sensitive subjects and avoids slurs, saying "if someone came to me and told me that something I said caused some kid to commit suicide, I'd be in a nuthouse for the rest of my life, I really would.