Comic Artie Lange On Being 'Too Fat To Fish'

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Published June 12, 2009 at 3:55 PM EDT

Artie Lange wrote and starred in the 2006 film <em>Beer League</em>. — Artie Lange wrote and starred in the 2006 film *Beer League*.

As one of the regulars on the Howard Stern Show, comic Artie Lange often tells stories about the awful, embarrassing, self-sabotaging things that have happened to him — including his problems with heroin, gambling, over-eating and prostitutes.

Lange commits those stories to paper in the memoir Too Fat To Fish.

This interview was originally broadcast Nov. 11, 2008.

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