Comedian and radio personality Artie Lange was released from a New Jersey hospital this week after being treated for self-inflicted stab wounds made in a suicide attempt. Lange, best known as Howard Stern’s sidekick on Stern’s Sirius XM radio program, used a 13-inch kitchen knife to stab himself nine times. “We all have our demons,’’ Stern commented.
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