Five Minutes With Artie Lang

You probably know Artie Lange from The Howard Stern Show, Mad TV, Old School and Elf. This fall, the comedian has his first starring role in the movie Beer League, which is about ' well, softball and beer.

By COED Staff

CO-ED: Didn't you go to Seton Hall?
Artie Lange: I went there from September 1985 to September 1985 [Editor's note: No, that's not a mistake]. I barely got out of high school ' I had to go to summer school to get out. [But] I was pretty good at baseball, and combined with the fact that my uncle knew a priest there who had some pull, I ended up sneaking in [to Seton Hall]. I was there for three weeks doing poorly and I hated it. Then my father fell off a roof and became paralyzed. That was my excuse to leave.

Tell me why we should see your movie.
Me and the kid who wrote it (Frank Sabastiano), we're both from New Jersey and play in a softball league. We always wanted to do our own f—in' rated-R softball movie. We got together five years ago in L.A. and said let's just tell our craziest softball stories and put them on index cards and try to structure it like a film. The whole team is alcoholics, and in the film, I live with my mom. Oh, and there's a great bachelor party scene with tits and ass.

Give us a drink you could recommend to college students.

It's very simple: Jack Daniels with water and a lot of ice.

What's that called?
Let's call it 'The Artie.' I've heard some people call it that before, but let's make it official.