Too Fat To Fish?

MadTV alumnus and current Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange spares no gruesome detail as he recounts his journey through show business in this memoir. Lange discloses the impressive sums he was paid, e.g $750,000 for a development deal with a major studio, the terms of which he satisfied by shooting a single pilot which he knew was going to be bad and which was, of course, not picked up. In many ways, the book is actually quite troubling as it lays bare the tortured psychology of a funny man who lost the father he idolized at a young age. Fans of the Stern show should understand that the book does not cover a lot of that period in Artie's life or give much behind-the-scenes dirt on other show personalities. I have the feeling Lange is saving all of that for a second book, one to be published shortly after his imminent firing.

- Steve, Main Library