Good grief Charlie Brown, Howard Stern’s sidekick, Artie Lange is going to appear in Playboy. Hold on to your pants, he’s going to be interviewed, not appearing in the flesh. For a moment there, we had you scared, didn’t we!
The interview, by Playboy’s Mike Guy which will appear in the January issue was previewed yesterday in the New York Daily News.
“The 40-year-old Jersey boy lives alone in a Hoboken apartment, he’s grossly overweight, diabetic, abuses booze and drugs and lots of people are waiting for him to die,” the Daily News’s Leo Standora writes. But is Artie depressed? Yes… about the Yankees.
Lange vents about Alex Rodriguez, saying the third basemen Alex Rodriguez gets his goat.
“F—— A-Rod. Can A-Rod get one f—— hit in October?” the forever Yankee fan asked. “A double down the line - something?”
Unable to resist a gag, Lange adds that Rodriguez is “a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs last year he went to a hospital and promised a dying kid he’d ground out to second for him. … It’s true … I was there. A-Rod pointed to second base.”
Of his big regret, Arte says his heroin addiction destroyed his only long-term relationship, a love affair with a New Jersey school teacher.
“I was in my mid-30s, and I was more stable than ever. I just couldn’t make it work.”