Stern Sidekick Quits on Air After Fight

Shock jock talks sex, Artie Lange, Charlie Sheen, and more

(NEWSER) - In a new interview with Rolling Stone , Howard Stern says former sidekick Artie Lange may return to the air for the first time following last year’s suicide attempt . “He said to me recently that he would be willing to come on the air and explain what happened and stuff," says Stern, but adds that he wants to make sure “I’d be doing the right thing by him … I just want Artie to stay alive." More from the interview:

• On Charlie Sheen: "I sort of admire Charlie Sheen's ability to say f*** you to the world. It's a fascinating car wreck because, you know, how many people are in Hollywood dying for a hit television show? I don't know whether to give him a medal or to throw him in a loony bin.”

Howard Stern sidekick stabbed himself nine times, sources say

(NEWSER) - Artie Lange’s recent hospital stay came after he stabbed himself nine times in an apparent suicide attempt, the New York Post reports. Law enforcement sources say Lange, whose mother called 911 after bringing him food and finding him bloodied, had six “hesitation wounds” and three deep wounds. A source close to Lange’s management confirms the comic stabbed himself. The comedian wrote in his recent biography that he tried to kill himself once before, that time with a drug overdose. More»

Troubled comedian canceled numerous December appeareances

(NEWSER) - Comedian Artie Lange, Howard Stern's volatile sidekick, is in the hospital in New Jersey but hasn't said why. The troubled comic's agent released a statement saying, "We can confirm that Artie is in the hospital. Artie has chosen to keep all information on this matter between him and his doctor." Lange, 42, has battled substance abuse and was busted for DUI in 2008, E! reports. More»

(NEWSER) - Michael Savage is on a roll: First the Brits take him off the "hate promoters" list that had him banned from the country, and now Kelefa Sanneh has an affectionate profile of the heretical conservative shock jock in the New Yorker. The toxic soundbites that emerge from Savage's show, and even his own stridently polemical books, don't do justice, Sanneh writes, to "the freewheeling sensibility of the show or the complicated personality of the man." More»

Comedian attacks host, other celebrities

(NEWSER) - Comedian Artie Lange appeared on the premiere of HBO's Joe Buck Live last night, and it sounds as if the host wishes he hadn't. Buck told USA Today he couldn't wait for Lange to finish his obscene, homophobic routine. "I thought that spending time on a treadmill felt long," said the veteran baseball announcer, who appeared helpless as the show ran off the rails. "That was like 8 or 9 minutes that turned into an eternity." More»