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SNL's Chris Redd Hospitalized After Being Attacked
Chris Redd's New York City assault was nary laughing matter.
However, the comedian is taking it each successful stride, revealing for the archetypal clip what went down Oct. 26 when he was attacked by a stranger. "This antheral deed maine successful the look with thing metal," Redd recalled during a preview clip for The Last Laugh podcast airing Nov. 8. "I thought it was brass knuckles due to the fact that of the mode it chopped my chemoreceptor to the bone."
Redd does not judge the incident was an attempted mugging but alternatively a targeted attack, and became alarmed lone aft helium saw the magnitude of humor gushing from his nose. "The dude conscionable deed maine and ran off," the 37-year-old continued. "I fell down truthful fast. I didn't adjacent cognize I fell until I looked astatine the [surveillance] footage."
After being rushed to Bellevue Hospital, Redd was treated for 2 fractures successful his nose. "A fist don't usually bash each of that astatine 1 time," he shared. "So it was harmless to presume I was deed with something."
The onslaught happened close earlier the erstwhile Saturday Night Live cast member was accidental to execute astatine the Comedy Cellar. And though Redd wanted to instantly instrumentality the signifier and explicate to the assemblage what happened, helium needed to get to a hospital.
"If we could person stopped the bleeding, I would person went connected stage," helium said. "I was like, ‘I can't hold to speech astir this shit.' And I'm gladsome I waited, but that was my archetypal thought."
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But fans may not to person to hold overmuch longer arsenic the material is already flowing for the Why Am I Like This? star.
"I got immoderate jokes for sure," Redd said. "As galore jokes arsenic different radical have, cipher has arsenic galore jokes astir this arsenic I do."
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