our next guest a very funny man who wrote and produced and stars in a new film entitled Artie
Lang's beer league it opened September 15th in selected cities please say hello to Artie Lange
Artie welcome to the program good to have you here this is uh this is not your first
film you've been in films before I've been in a lot of movies actually they all sucked
which Which films would we have seen you hopefully this will be my first good one
um I was actually in a movie the first movie I was ever in was with a guy that uh I think you're
a fan of Norm Macdonald McDonald's very funny yeah very very funny we did a buddy comedy called Dirty
work together and you know when you're getting these movies you're real nervous well thank you
[Applause]
my God that was the worst Round of Applause in the history of Show Business everything counts
though thank you um so you're just worried you're gonna get fired that first week uh so uh the first
day of shooting we have to work with the great Don Rickles tremendous okay just tremendous now
that's good and bad I'm happy to meet him but I'm afraid I'm just gonna bust out laughing because
Don Rickles coincidentally enough plays a guy who insults me and Norm it's typecasting and uh they
give Don a bunch of lines to learn and that's a mistake you know he's a master at it so finally
he couldn't really remember the lies they say Don look look at Norman already look at these
two schlubs and just insult them off the top of your head so this is the first shot of the movie
and I got Don Rickles about to insult me so uh the L action the great Bob Saget directed the movie
Donna Donna just finished casino with Scorsese he went up to Saget and he said Bob listen I
was talking to Martin Scorsese I said Marty Bob Saget's directing the film The Man grabbed his
chest laughs [Laughter] that was good for sag it's confidence so the first shot is a three
shot me norm and Rickles so I'm trying not to laugh we play these idiot theater guys we work
in a movie theater and Rickles is our boss so the yellow action Rickles comes up to me
I have no idea what he's going to say he gets this far from my face and he goes look at you
look at you you baby gorilla
laughing like like I mean it's Don Rickles calling me a baby gorilla I throw up laughing almost and I
think I'll cut down you got to do it again we're sorry you blew the tank I'm getting yelled at
Executives from MGM are looking at me looking oh fire in this jerk you know and uh I go all
right how am I going to get through this they go action he comes up to me and he goes look at you
look at you you baby gorilla and I laugh again so uh this happens 20 straight times
I laugh every time I'm afraid I'm gonna get fired they're paying him by the day so they
I think it was like 100 Grand a day so they had to get them out of there so I'm wasting money
finally uh I get through the baby gorilla part now I don't know what the second half
is going to be hasn't finished Consulting me yet so they do or take I get through
baby gorilla and then he goes to me he goes uh Baskin Robbins called me
and said that you ate them down to only five flavors
you fat disgusting slob and then me and Norm laugh again yeah that takes another 20 takes
we're gonna do it in sections so we get through that and then and then when he says they I hit
them down only five flavors the next thing he does is he puts his face right by my belly
and he goes having a good time in their ice cream dancing around [Laughter]
genius he's a genius so uh so we couldn't stop laughing he gets through that and then he gets
to Norm he has to insult Norm now Norm by the way never didn't laugh if you rent the
movie Dirty Work Norman's laughing in the zoo he's not a great actor like me Norway
we weren't exactly Newman in Redford you know so uh then he gets Rickles gets the norm he's
laughing so they had to write him a line he goes what are you laughing at because I called your
friend the fat pig and then Norm goes no I was just laughing when you were talking to
his belly so while we're filming in the movie he goes to Norm he goes how did you get a movie
and Sackett goes Saga being a really director goes cut Don you can't insult them as Norm Macdonald
that's not going to work you know we can't put it in the film his name is Mitch in the film
and salt Mitch so Rickles goes all right and the next thing he goes he goes look at you he
goes he goes who wrote this script these jokes are horrible cotton done and so the script we
can't use it so anyway it was 18 hours of that the end of the day I went up to it so
Mr Rickles it was a pleasure working with you and he looked at me and he said listen I was
watching you all day and listen let me tell you something good luck working construction
how's Howard Howard's doing good man we're on satellite radio that's what I hear yeah
yeah do you see anything about that we're allowed to curse on the radio it makes me
funny tell him I said hello let's show folks a clip of Artie Lang's at beer league and
this is like guys in a big semi-professional amateur softball league yeah very seriously
it's a rated R comedy about a softball team in Jersey a beer league team and
um you ever played in one of these oh God yeah that's why uh uh me and a guy who writes for
you Frank Sebastiano we wrote it together very funny and uh he directed it and uh it's it's a
good old-fashioned rated R comedy we got some topless broads and a bachelor party scene check
it out well we don't even need to show a clip now I'm sorry all right selected cities uh September
15th Artie great pleasure to see you again I'm a big fan I would love to thank you sir everybody
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