I'm almost done with reading Artie Lange's book Too Fat To Fish....and I haven't been able to put it down since I got it yesterday. No book has made me ever laugh and almost cry like his book. So good. And any true fan of Artie who hasn't read it yet. I highly recommend.
Bob Uecker is so funny, that even Jesse Ventura, who was supposed to dislike him, kept breaking character and laughing out loud during his commentary at Wrestlemania 3 and 4. I can only imagine how funny Bob must have been in real life. If even Norm McDonald gets puzzled at your comedy, you KNOW you must be damn good.
Notice how, even back during the earliest days of “I punched a guy during my MadTV days and got arrested for coke,” Artie can’t keep the details straight - seems almost like he’s stitching a couple of different stories together, or maybe part of the story happened to some other person other than Artie. This pattern generally holds true over the years.
In the 1960s, LAD pitcher Don Drysdale and STL 3B Ken Boyer had an intense rivalry where they'd prank (or "bag") each other in increasingly extreme fashion until they both went way too far. One night in Milwaukee, Drysdale was in a hotel room with his favorite prostitute when Boyer had a cop buddy of his run a fake raid on Drysdale. The cops dragged Drysdale and the hooker into the hotel lobby and loudly and embarrassingly pretended to arrest them, only revealing that it was a "bag" once they were both handcuffed in the cop car. In retaliation, Drysdale had his close friend Frank Sinatra get a couple of mafia goons to kidnap Boyer at gunpoint in the parking lot after a Dodger game, throw him in the trunk, drive him out to the desert and make Boyer think they were going to kill him, only revealing the bag was on him once he was crying and begging for his life.
" I can' t even tell that story!" WAIT. WHAT? This is Stern on Satellite radio! When did boundaries happen?! Artie: Rest in Peace....( He's not dead I'm giving him an advance....)
Ive been working on asphalt paving crews for 30 years i have more stories that make these guys look like choir boys high speed police chases prison time and alot of overdosing ive seen it all howard stern would laugh his ass off watch the movie the fighter its a glimpse into the lifestyle of a paver lol these guys would be horrified if anyone out there could help me write a book it would be a best seller
I hate that I relate to artie so much. The only thing that's different is that I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum when it comes to weight. I can't gain a pound to save my life.... Doug Stanhope......hahahahha
The lost art of human interaction. Try having this exact conversation on a social platform and there would be nothing but hate and offended offensive threat inducing insulting trash mouthed responses and comments with racist, Q bashing, women hating themes that would prevent any one story to be finished.
