Comedian breaks down in tears as crowd save man having heart attack during show

A comedian posted a video of himself crying at the act of kindness from the crowd at his comedy show, who provided life-saving measures to a man having a heart attack during his set.

One of Drew Lynch’s recent shows saw something that nobody should have to endure, with the comedian having since shared the tense clip on social media.

The 34-year-old was gigging in Spokane, Washington, US on 12 September when he had to suddenly pause after noticing something happening in front of him.

Someone in the crowd was going into cardiac arrest, and Lynch, trying to survey the issue, asked: “Oh, hey. Everything okay?”

“No,” an audience member responded, and another updated: “I’m calling 911 right now."

Lynch later revealed the man was called Mr Wende in a new video update of the situation.

At the time, audience members immediately sprang into action, taking turns performing CPR compressions and checking for a pulse as his heart stopped for five minutes.

Thankfully, a person shouted after a long stretch of time that Wende was ‘waking up’, and when paramedics arrived and took him to the hospital, Lynch had to pause for a moment.

“He had no pulse for over five minutes when, by a miracle of God and the efforts of people in that room that night, they were able to revive him,” Lynch later shared on TikTok. “I've never seen anything like it.”

Lynch broke down on stage and reminded the audience of what an amazing thing they did.

“That was incredible, dude. Like, I know we’re here making jokes and doing a bunch of s*** just about the town, but you guys all really just came together in a really cool way, dude,” he said. “You saved that guy’s life, man.”

In the update, he said it was hard for him to understand what was happening, and 'took for what felt like forever to even realize what was going on, but people in the crowd had reacted almost immediately.’

He said Wende ‘was lying there’ while ‘people in the room with no identity, no ego, nothing other than just coming together to clear a path, men, women, taking turns doing compressions for CPR, monitoring vitals, calling the paramedics, working on him for over five minutes.’

“I’m getting emotional because … I’m a comedian, but who cares?” he continued. “I felt as a human being that I got to experience a group of people coming together to revive someone, to give back someone their life.

“It’s just a crazy world, man. And it’s been a hard week for a lot of people for a lot of reasons, and the fact that I just got to witness a village, basically, of people just working together, and understanding the stakes of the situation, being good-natured,” Lynch added.

“I said it last night and I’ll say it again: It was a beautiful thing to witness, because it restored hope for whatever is going on in the crazy of this world.”

Lynch actually went on to visit Wende at the hospital and performed the rest of his show for him, so that he didn’t have to miss it.

He then shared a message from Wende’s son, Nathan, on TikTok.

He said the audience ‘brought my dad back, literally to life,’ and he doesn't ‘know all of your names but I hope you know how much you are appreciated.’

“I write this to say, in a world where we are so divided at times, these strangers to us at the time came together to give us the gift of more time with our dad/papa,” said Nathan.

“He is doing better today. Lots of tests, but hopefully on the road to recovery. I can't do anything for any of you but say...thanks. We don't take this extra time granted, and you make me proud to live in Spokane.”