Show staffers overheard Lange screaming at Teddy considering Teddy asked him for his passport for the fourth date as he planned their flight to Amsterdam, which was set to take off last night. It was only a matter of day before he snapped on someone. Lange told Teddy he should have photocopied the passport the first date.

Stern was told they had been bickering and brought it up on air. I want to fire him, but he has no money. When Teddy came in to defend himself, Lange snapped.

“He’s a loser,” yelled Lange.

Artie Lange quit the Howard Stern Show yesterday after going after his assistant live on the air.

The bickering started off air in the , in the hallway adjacent to Stern’s studio. I hope he dies of AIDS.”

Lange, who pays Teddy $24,000 a year for part-time work, thereupon accused Teddy of embarrassing him in front of friends last week in LA when he called Bloomingdale’s branch store by its nickname, Bloomie’s, and announced the store didn’t have something in Lange’s size.

“I think I hired a fag,” said Lange. You can take in the actual show clip right here.

Show writer Benjy Bronk jumped on Lange and held him back, while Ronnie “The Limo Driver” Mund burst in to get Teddy out of the studio.

Any guy that says Bloomies does deserve a punch in the mouth so you can’t fault Artie for that, but that guy was a ticking date bomb. “I wanted to throw him out the window.”

Lange next threw a cup of water at Teddy and lunged at him, throwing a punch

that didn’t land. “He’s the most unorganized assistant.

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