Is Howard Stern Censoring The Artie Lange Resignation?
Not to beat a dead horse, but the whole Artie Lange flare-up this morning continues.
Today Sirius played the Howard Stern Show from April 7 all day, instead of this morning’s live show featuring co-host Artie Lange having a major meltdown, including a physical attack, after his assistant Teddy pissed him off. After listening to the audio of the fight I can see why Howard might censor this.
Artie is unhinged, Artie needs help. I still, after listening to this nasty, angry, filthy, dismissive and condescending diatribe, still like Artie. You know why? Because it’s not Artie attacking Teddy, it’s Artie’s addiction, depression, anxiety and self-loathing attacking Teddy. Teddy for his part is a mooch, a leech and exceptionally unqualified to handle a job dealing with creative types who have emotional problems. Few people are. But Teddy shouldn’t be borrowing money from his boss, seriously, that’s really low class and tacky. Artie may be difficult to work for, but he’s obviously a generous guy. Artie also seems to be having trouble distancing himself from his blue-collar beginnings and seems to think he has to surround himself by low-rent pieces of crap who are always hitting him up for dough. He’s like the Britney Spears of radio.
Artie shouldn’t have attacked Teddy physically, that was crossing a line, but Teddy is an ass for constantly sucking off of Artie.
Bottom line, Artie needs anger management, rehab, and to re-evaluate his priorities in this business. Howard needs to decide if having someone that volatile on his show is worth the risk. Robin needs to stop dropping the JC bombs, though I love her and she’s the only sane person on the show. Fred get’s major props for flying under the radar for years, YEARS I TELL YOU.
On some level, this is great radio because it’s REAL. And in this world of fake “reality” TV the reality of how we really interact with one another is refreshing. Ultimately, Howard pulled this show because he cares about Artie and while it goes against all he believes in, in the end, Howard does what Howard wants. This is why Howard for years stated he would never get married again, including never marrying Beth O., yet, what’s Howard doing? Marrying Beth. Why? Because he loves her and that means more to him than looking like a hypocrite. For this, Howard gets my respect.
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I so do not get why everyone wants to give Artie the addict a pass all the time. He throws money at people constantly and never forgets a penny that he gives, loans, whatever to anyone. He talks about money all the time and is constantly offering people money. That is not generosity. Every hot woman that comes in he offers money to. It’s a not very subtle way of making himself a “victim”. Then he complains when people inevitably take advantage. Waaaaaah!!
This is not professional and not cool how he is behaving. If the guy who works for you is a slacker, you have to deal with it in a business like manner. You cannot attack them or threaten them. Period.
I don’t care about Artie.
But that’s just me based on having addicts in the family. They wear you the F… out. The Stern Show is my respite from all the serious and sad issues in the world. I started listening after I got out of 20 years in a mind control cult. I need my laughs. He ain’t doing his job. If you ask me he is looking for a way to wreck himself.
They should go back to rotating people in that chair. It will be a fresh breath to the show. They could always bring him back if that’s what people want.
IMNSHO
Comment by Jane — April 10, 2008 @ 10:18 pm