Thursday, November 13, 2008
It's intervention time
Jesus, did anyone else see Artie Lange on Conan the other night? I mean- I'd heard stories from Norm McDonald and Greg Fitzsimmons about Lange's downward spiral, but what I saw Tuesday night was just sad. He lumbered over to the couch looking disheveled and sleep-deprived, and when he took his seat beside Conan, he immediately announced "I'm wearing these sunglasses because I'm so high." Awesome.
From there it just got worse. Lange elicited a chorus of boos from the audience after suggesting that Tracy Morgan might be illiterate, then launched into these rambling, unrelated stories about taking vicodin, and wanting to do heroin that "wasn't smuggled across the border in some Mexican chick's colon."
To Conan's credit, he powered through this trainwreck of an interview like a real pro, though you could tell he was clearly unnerved by Lange's behaviour and the (many) awkward silences. The only part of the segment that made me laugh, was when they cut to a shell-shocked Seth Green while Artie was in the middle of some incoherent, yet vaguely offensive anecdote.
From there it just got worse. Lange elicited a chorus of boos from the audience after suggesting that Tracy Morgan might be illiterate, then launched into these rambling, unrelated stories about taking vicodin, and wanting to do heroin that "wasn't smuggled across the border in some Mexican chick's colon."
To Conan's credit, he powered through this trainwreck of an interview like a real pro, though you could tell he was clearly unnerved by Lange's behaviour and the (many) awkward silences. The only part of the segment that made me laugh, was when they cut to a shell-shocked Seth Green while Artie was in the middle of some incoherent, yet vaguely offensive anecdote.
