Joe Rogan - Anthony Cumia on Artie Lange

Especially with bringing Artie Lang on board for the eight months he was with me, it's very difficult to get into any kind of commentary on society with Artie Lang sitting there. How was it? It was odd. It was great. I mean, you know, the preface everyone gives is fucking love Artie. He's hilariously funny, so quick and just a goofy knock-around regular guy. But the demons, man, the demons, it was kind of rough to deal with. Like I said, I'm a relaxed guy. If Artie didn't show up one day, I'd do the show myself. Didn't he do the show with Opie for a while? No, he was a guest on Opie's show and I guess Opie approached him to be a co-host or something. He said no. Okay. But yeah, he was never part of the show. I thought he was going to be part of the show. Yeah, there was kind of a rumor going around for a while. So when he came on, I was like, it's not going to kill me if he doesn't show up for a day every so often because I'll just do the show myself. But it turned out to be a little more than that. And there were some days that were really good and other days where it was a little frayed around the edges and redundant. He's got different kind of demons. He's got like Beozebub. He's got like the main demon. He really does, man. It's so fucking sad to see because I mean, there's no question about the talent there. He's hilarious. Yeah, hilarious and a great guy. Great guy. You'll always hear that. Yeah. Always hear that. I remember when we hired him, I was at the Comedy Cellar and David Tell came up and he goes, so you're working with Artie. I'm like, yeah. He goes, well, welcome to the wonderful world of the 3 a.m. phone calls and not being able to find him. I'm like, oh fuck, what did we get ourselves into? And that's kind of what we got ourselves into. But again, I mean, I had a great time. He's one of the funniest motherfuckers, especially on a mic like that. Who would think that when Jackie Martling left The Stern Show, they'd be able to replace him with somebody that was just funny as fuck and have legendary shows with Artie on. And he definitely earned a place in broadcast history, but we just, after eight months, it got a little too crazy, unpredictable, and you need some predictability. What was bad about it? Well, it was the attendance issue was a little odd. Sound like a principle. Yeah, yeah. The attendance, he was tardy. And there were some days he was fucking just, most days he was awesome. But there were some days where the head's down, it was kind of a little iffy. And regardless, I know he knows that too. He lives in that body, so he knows it. So it was a little odd. And then we picked up Dave Landau, who's a young comic out of Detroit. He filled in a couple of times when we had him as a guest on the show, and then he filled in a couple of times during Artie's few sabbaticals that he was away for a week or so. And me and Dave just hit it off. He's got a great sense of humor. He's a little twisted. He's got a great backstory. The guy was just a fucking piece of shit for a long time. His story's about drunk driving. He crashed every car he had. He was arrested 15 times before he was 18, like just a disaster. You look at him now, he's got a great wife, a beautiful kid. He's a working comic, and he's awesome. He knows how to co-host my show. He gets it. We don't step on each other. He knows exactly what to throw in and when. So really happy with Dave Landau. He's a great guy. I only did one show with him, a little awesome. I was in town with him, but he's great. I really enjoyed it. Yeah, he's a good guy, man. Smart dude. He's a really smart and really decent. It's so weird to see people that you didn't know when they were such fuck-ups and fucked up. You almost want to go, all right, come on, just drink one night. I want to see what a disaster you are.