On Wednesday’s show they played an audio bit High Pitch Mike recorded in response to Artie calling him a fag on Tuesday’s wrap-up show. Mike walked out and then recorded himself using a few clips of songs throwing jabs at Artie’s dad among other things.

Colin Quinn came in to the show today to talk about his personal/professional life, depression, Artie, fat camp and his anxiety with Robin’s relationship with Jimmy. Colin expressed his worries of Artie’s health calling Artie’s problems a “compilation of addictions” and that he thinks Artie doesn’t take it serious enough. He is afraid that something could happen which at that point might be too late or irreversible to change.

Colin offended by Artie

Not too long ago Artie mentioned that he might go to fat camp and that a B-list celebrity came up with the idea. Colin admitted today that after the Pat Cooper roast he went up to Artie and suggested that they both go to fat camp for a purification or jump start on getting control of their health. Colin said he heard Artie on the air mention that a B-lister had suggested it and he was offended that Artie didn’t say a friend talked to him. Colin called himself a C-lister.

He also said that Artie told him to set it up. “What am i his assistant? I’m a selfish comic too i want someone to set it up for me… he has an assistant”. Artie said that he only asked for information and that if let Teddy set it up, they would both be going to skinny camp.

See Colin tomorrow night thru December 2nd at the Gotham Comedy Club.

They were discussing the wrecked JD and HP Mike bit on the wrap-up show today when high pitch mike started lashing out at Artie again. Artie called him a “huge fag” and he retaliated with a slew of obsessively rehearsed lines:

“You think you are a hilarious comedian, you are on the biggest show on earth and your still a nobody”

“Your movie failed … DVD is $4 at circuit city”

“Your cupcake helps fight aids but every word out of your mouth is fagot”

“I hope you die like grandma Caprio.”

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Artie said on the air today that he landed a deal as a voice over an upcoming video game. Artie will be the voice of “Big Al” in the next Leisure Suit Larry video game. He said he is getting paid about the same amount someone in the 20s makes in a year.

For any of you fans of stand-up comedy, Punchline Magazine has released a new social networking site for comedians and fans of stand-up comedy called Comedy Space.

* Introduce yourself with your own profile
* Add some videos, photos, audio files, or a blog post.
* Add your personal Widgets to other blogs and websites.
* Meet other members on the Message Board, or join one of the Groups.

You can find Save Baby Gorilla on there as well! (I haven’t gotten all my stuff up there but i plan on trying it out more)

Thanks to Steve D for submitting this one. He found a blog where the author claims he went to high school with Artie and this was a yearbook picture. I’m not sure why its dated Sept 14 2006, perhaps he took a picture of the page or its a different Artie Lange all together. You be the judge.

The New York Post today has a little article on Jackie Martling where the “Joke Man” comments on Artie “Beef” Lange.

I still get the idiot listeners e-mailing me saying, ‘Oh, you’ll crawl back to Howard if Artie leaves!’ ” The old-time comic gives some drinking and drugging advice to his replacement, hard-partying Artie Lange: “I’m sure Artie has his hands full. But he’s a young guy with a lot of money. If he weren’t out there [bleep]ing, spending his money and getting drunk, I would think there’s something wrong with him. I think it’s just good headlines. I hope that Artie isn’t in as much trouble as everyone seems to think he his.”

Howard had mentioned to Artie that it looked like he gained weight over the break and Artie said yea but he had a very depressing thing that happened to him.

“I lifted up my arms to wash my hair and i heard something fall on the floor…” He thought some how a quarter must have got wedged under his belly and when he was in the shower it fell off, or out.

Lisa G. reported this morning that Wendy the Retard issued a challenge to Artie Lange to see who could lose weight faster.

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The Warm-ups

So now we have our seats, Pete Dominick gets done with his set shortly after. Next up: Joe Anthony, a Brooklyn-based comedian. / I enjoyed his set, found him pretty funny. He had a good joke about being at the beach with his kids and having a hard-on from watching girls in bikinis. LOL. Like I mentioned previously it turned out that Joe was the dude that we were standing next to before the show who was giving me a little attitude.

After Joe, Michael Bocchetti came up. He is an upcoming comic whose nervously pacing routine landed him a spot on the TV show Last Comic Standing. He had a short set but I found him funny too, you can tell he was putting his all into it and yet struggling with dealing with an obnoxious Stern audience who will heckle even the headliners like Artie.

Last of the openers was Joe Matarese. He recently was a guest on the Stern show and a very good friend of Artie. He probably had the best performance next to Artie. A little slow of a start but he had good presence and was very relaxed on stage. He had an awesome Rocky joke that had my brother and I laughing.

The Big Man Cometh

The lights go out on the stage and a screen in the back of the stage lights up with a montage of Artie Lange clips. Everything from his TV appearances on David Lettermen, Jimmy Kimmel, ESPN, Mad TV (seasons 1 and 2), Entourage, Rescue Me to movies that he appeared in like Lost and Found, Old School, Elf, Dirty Work, and of course his movie Beer League. It was a pretty good mix with a AC/DC song backing it up (if I remember correctly). Then the video turns out and leads into his standard intro music, which I have no idea why I don