After Artie Lange embarrassed Joe Buck on his own talk show, he strongly disagreed with HBO about the best way to respond.<\/p>\n
Buck recently joined The Small Bow Podcast, hosted by A.J. Daulerio<\/a>, former editor-in-chief of Gawker and Deadspin. During the podcast, Daulerio asked Buck if he would ever host another talk show, which quickly elicited memories of his infamous interview with Artie Lange. The Hall of Fame announcer recruited Lange to join the premiere episode of Joe Buck Live on HBO in 2009, and it was one of the more cringeworthy appearances in late-night history.<\/p>\n \u201cI was the one that got Artie booked,\u201d Buck told Daulerio<\/a>. \u201cBecause I\u2019m a huge Stern fan, that was in the heyday of Artie on Stern. He\u2019s a real sports fan\u2026get him on, he\u2019ll be a blast. They booked him, I go in beforehand, he could not have been nicer. I said, \u2018When you get out there, light me up. Give me sh*t, I don\u2019t care, let me have it.\u2019 Now, what that means to me and you, and what that means to Artie were two different things.\u201d<\/p>\n Lange did what Buck asked. But if you watch the interview again, it\u2019s clear Buck was uncomfortable, as was much of the audience, who responded with more shock than laughter.<\/p>\n \u201cI wrote the forward for his book,\u201d Buck continued of Lange. \u201cHe admitted in the book that he snorted Vicodin and drank Jack Daniels, and then came out there. Okay, fine. Did I like it? No. Was I in a position where I could really fire back? No. I just had to kind of sit there and take it because I already had a day job. I just let him do his thing, and eventually it\u2019s going to be over. HBO completely overreacted.\u201d<\/p>\n After the immediate response to Lange\u2019s appearance, Buck told HBO he wanted the comedian to return for their next show. HBO immediately answered, absolutely not.<\/p>\n \u201cI said, \u2018Well, then I\u2019m not going to do it,\u2019\u201d Buck recalled. \u201cI had to plead with HBO to let me do it. And I said, \u2018I swear to you, I have a job at Fox. I just won\u2019t do [this show].\u2019 They said, \u2018Not only are you not allowed to have him on, you\u2019re not allowed to reference that it happened.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n Buck noted he was the one who had to live with the backlash and the crowds yelling \u201cArtie Lange\u201d every time he walked into a stadium. Lange immediately said sorry for getting carried away, to which Buck said an apology wasn\u2019t necessary, especially after encouraging the comedian to go at him. To prove the apology wasn\u2019t necessary, Buck went ahead and told Lange he wanted him back on the show.<\/p>\n Eventually, HBO caved and allowed Lange to make a pre-recorded appearance during the cold open of their next show, where they poked fun at his previous appearance. Three months later, however, HBO canceled Joe Buck Live anyway, so who knows how concerned they were by his threat to leave. But the experience hasn\u2019t soured Buck on the idea of hosting another talk show<\/a>. It also didn\u2019t sour his relationship with Lange. And with Lange having disappeared from the spotlight in recent years amid his battles with drug abuse, Buck still receives periodic voicemails from the former Stern Show contributor.<\/p>\n \u201cI just root for him,\u201d Buck said. I think he\u2019s got a huge heart.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Artie Lange embarrassed Joe Buck on his own talk show, he strongly disagreed with HBO about the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":654986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[39],"tags":[277682,277683,28283,277684,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-654985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-a-j-daulerio","tag-artie-lange","tag-joe-buck","tag-joe-buck-live","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116227387436667424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}