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Artie Lange: Return to Howard Stern’s show would be ‘the greatest,’ but it’s an ‘awkward situation’

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Artie Lange says returning to ‘The Howard Stern Show’ would be ‘the greatest thing ever,’ but he also acknowledges the difficulty of the situation.

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‘Listen, I was on the greatest show of all time for about nine years, and I put them in a very awkward situation, to say the least,’ he told a caller this week during an appearance on Fox Sports Radio with fill-in host Nick Di Paolo, who like Lange is a stand-up comic. ‘So what am I gonna do?’

Lange hasn’t been on the Stern show since December 2009, before a January 2010 suicide attempt in which he stabbed himself repeatedly with a knife. His mother found him bloody in his Hoboken, N.J., apartment and called 911 in time to save his life.

Stern told Rolling Stone earlier this year that Lange had offered to come on the show to explain what happened, but the talk-show star seemed reluctant to accept the offer.

‘I don’t even feel strong enough within myself or that I’d be doing the right thing by him, because I don’t want to do the wrong thing for Artie,’ Stern said, adding, ‘I just want Artie to stay alive.’

Lange returned to the stand-up stage last September with a performance in New York.

‘I love them all, and they were great to me,’ Lange said Wednesday about the Stern team. ‘I appreciate that.’

For the record, 9 a.m. July 15: This post originally misspelled comic Nick Di Paolo’s last name as DiPaulo. Thanks to commenter Dan Heckel for flagging the error. A link to Di Paolo’s website, which has audio of the full three-hour interview, also has been added.

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-- Christie D’Zurilla
Twitter.com/dzurillaville


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