Artie Lange

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Arthur Steven Lange, Jr., (born October 11, 1967 in Union Township, Union County, New Jersey) is an American television and film actor, stand-up comic and radio personality. Lange is most notable as a member of the original cast of the sketch comedy series MADtv and for replacing Jackie Martling on The Howard Stern Show, now on Sirius Satellite Radio channel 100. <p>Lange was born and raised in New Jersey. His mother was a homemaker, and his father was a contractor. Two weeks after he was born, his father went on trial for counterfeiting money, but was spared jail time out of the court's sympathy for his young son. His family identified themselves as Italian-Americans, despite having German and Native American ancestry on his father's side. Lange has said that his father's background "has always been a gray area." During a segment of The Howard Stern Show, Lange provided a blood sample which was taken to a laboratory for genetics testing. Howard Stern announced that the results...