Too Fat to Fish

Too Fat to Fish
by Artie Lange, Anthony Bozza

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Author: Anthony Bozza, Artie Lange
Foreword: Howard Stern
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-06-02
ISBN: 0385526571
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau

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Book Review: A downward spiral and back again. Several times.
Summary: 5 Stars

I'll admit. I'm not a big fan of the Howard show. It's not that I'm not interested in the content and purpose of the show, it's that I just don't have the time for it these days. But my brother told me about the Artie vs his assistant incident from last year, and I managed to dig up a video clip of it. I thought to myself, "this guy sure is messed up." Then I remembered people throughout history with problems that deep tend to deliver the best answers to much of life's issues. So I bought this book. And I sure am glad I did. It's a short read, but very potent.

Artie has been through it all, it seems. Twisted relationships, prostitutes, drug addiction, career highs and lows, literally throwing produce at his friends and strangers and working with the best and brightest in the business. He's even been bitten by Google. Read this book and you'll know what I mean.

Too Fat to Fish is not only a journey through one of the most twisted, drug-addicted minds in comedy's history, but also a sincere look at how a person, along with the help of family and friends, overcomes all that self-destruction and misplaced rage. A definite must-have for anyone who thinks they've put themselves in a bad spot from time to time. As Stern mentions in the foreword, "Artie is just like us, just ten million times worse."

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Summary of Too Fat to Fish

Outrageous, raw, and painfully funny true stories straight from the life of the actor, comedian, and much-loved cast member of The Howard Stern Show?with a foreword by Howard Stern.

When Artie Lange joined the permanent cast of The Howard Stern Show in 2001, it was possibly the greatest thing ever to happen in the Stern universe, second only to the show?s move to the wild, uncensored frontier of satellite radio. Lange provided what Stern had yet to find all in the same place: a wit quick enough to keep pace with his own, a pathetic self-image to dwarf his own, a personal history both heartbreaking and hilarious, and an ingrained sense of self-sabotage that continually keeps things interesting.

A natural storyteller with a bottomless pit of material, Lange grew up in a close-knit, working-class Italian family in Union, New Jersey, a maniacal Yankees fan who pursued the two things his father said he was cut out for?sports and comedy. Tragically, Artie Lange Sr. never saw the truth in that prediction: He became a quadriplegic in an accident when Artie was eighteen and died soon after. But as with every trial in his life, from his drug addiction to his obesity to his fights with his mother, Artie mines the humor, pathos, and humanity in these events and turns them into comedy classics.

True fans of the Stern Show will find Artie gold in these pages: hilarious tales that couldn?t have happened to anyone else. There are stories from his days driving a Jersey cab, working as a longshoreman in Port Newark, and navigating the dark circuit of stand-up comedy. There are outrageous episodes from the frenzied heights of his coked-up days at MADtv, surprisingly moving stories from his childhood, and an account of his recent U.S.O. tour that is equally stirring and irreverent. But also in this volume are stories Artie?s never told before, including some that he deemed too revealing for radio.

Wild, shocking, and drop-dead hilarious, Too Fat to Fish is Artie Lange giving everything he?s got to give. And like a true pro, the man never disappoints.

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