Comedian Johnny Salami called into the Howard Stern show to talk to Artie Lange about this event and discussed some of his own personal experiences. Salami is very spontaneous and the crowd must be tough skinned. People like him and Artie DO NOT do this type of Blue comedy humor. Censoring their jokes to keep it safe not to offend the crowd! Its comedy people, you go out to laugh expect anything! These guys work hard to make people laugh, they don’t know what the hell you find funny and they really don’t care so all is fair game to some comedians. It’s just like TV- you don’t like it change the channel, if you don’t like the comic leave but enough with the censorship and the BS is Artie ok for Conan for a good time slot? I recently saw Artie’s buddy Johnny Salami at the New York Comedy Club and he killed the place, he’s rough but funny as hell. So if you don’t want lame jokes and you can handle Artie type humor Johnny Salami is also worth checking out since we are on this topic. Again most people would not have even heard of or for that matter seen this show if it wasn’t for Artie; smart move HBO.
Entertainment Weekly-On last night's series premiere of HBO's Joe Buck Live, the "comedy roundtable" portion of the show ended up completely dominated by The Howard Stern Show's Artie Lange, who ran his mouth in typical Artie Lange fashion until Buck became visibly uncomfortable and defensive in his own odd, mild-mannered way. "I'm sorry to ruin your f---ing great show," said Lange, to which Buck (whose tweets have more pizazz than his speech would suggest) calmly replied, "I appreciate the apology, because you have.Without Lange's antics, I'm pretty sure most people would never have realized that an HBO series called Joe Buck Live premiered last night. Well played, producersCopyright ©2009 Entertainment Weekly. All rights reserved
What the Fans had to say-
“REX Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:02PM EST What the Hell? First of all I never even heard of this show!! I watched because of Artie and the same goes for a million other people and a million others arguing over it since this went viral because of his nonsense on the show! Second this is what Artie does he is the poster boy of this type of humor and if you can’t take the heat get out the kitchen!! Why have Artie on the show if you don’t think he was good for ratings? Like many great comics not able to perform censored Like you never know what they will say next and the entertainment value is priceless- its comedy relax people, if you can’t laugh at yourself and laugh at others this world will be one up tight place!! Like I said the shows premiere had ratings Wow- who would have known!
“JAB Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 08:55 PM ESTI think Joe Buck took in a few old clips of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and watched Conan do the equivalent of a 3 on 5 penalty kill trying to control the likes of Artie Lange, Norm MacDonald, Scott Thompson(KitH,) and John Lovitz. "Piece of cake," thought the face FOX Sports. I bet Bob Costas had a good laugh.”
“Tom Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:08 PM ESTIt's Buck's fault that Artie got a chance to take over. Sudekis and Rudd are funny guys but Buck opened up the segment by asking Rudd a barely there question about being stalked by TMZ crews. Rudd was having a hard time i wouldn't have been watching if not for artie”.
“denny Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 01:01 PM ESTi wouldn't have been watching if not for artie. joe got what he asked for.artie is the only reason anyone is talking about it..... that being said i think artie has been going too far or too much since getting clean...love ya artie!!!”
“Jo Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:42 AM ESTSeriously?!! What has happened to people's sense of humor? Who cares what was said or done? It's a friggin' sports talk show on HBO!! Like Artie said this morning, "if he had been sitting next to Barack Obama he probably would have toned it down." It's friggin' comedy...get a clue...pull the stick out of your asses and laugh!! We live in pretty trying times and if you can grab a few laughs then do it...and you also have free will in a free country...if you don't like it...turn the channel!!! DUH!!!”
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