Artie Lange Signs with Flying Dolphin

Howard Stern sidekick and stand-up comic Artie Lange has been snagged to write a memoir for Doubleday's Flying Dolphin Press. Here's what Artie himself had to say:

"After reading several books, I thought it would be fun to write one," Lange said. "I'm about to turn 40, which for me is the new 70. I have a lot of stories that are both funny and dark and I honestly don't know how much longer I have on this planet. It's time to get this done."

As anyone familiar with the comedian knows, he's got more than enough crazy stories to fill a book. From an early arrest for bank-robbery to life as a longshoreman to his recent bout with heroin addiction, the dude's had a pretty eventful life. Though few tales can top his infamous "pig story" from his days working on Mad TV. Here's a Cliff's Notes version from Wikipedia:

He has stated that his lowest point of cocaine use occurred during a shooting of the MADtv sketch "Babewatch", in which he played a pig lifeguard. Because the sketch involved him going through hours of make up to transform him into a pig, he snorted cocaine in his car in full pig make up during a break in the shooting of the sketch. Upon returning from the shoot, he passed out in his hotel room, and awoke to find he had defecated in his own bed.