Comedian Breaks Down in Tears as Man Goes into Cardiac Arrest at Show: Watch

After a man went into cardiac arrest at one of Drew Lynch’s recent shows, the audience jumped into action to save him — and it left the comedian emotional.

A clip shared by Lynch 34, on TikTok captured the intense moment, which took place at his show in Spokane, Wash., on Sept. 12. Pausing his set, Lynch asked, “Oh, hey. Everything okay?”

“No,” an audience member responded, as, seconds later, someone else shouted, “I’m calling 911 right now.”

A man in the audience, whom Lynch later identified as Mr. Wende, had gone into cardiac arrest, according to information the comedian shared on TikTok.

Audience members immediately jumped into action, taking turns doing compressions and checking for a pulse, until one person in attendance announced that Wende was “waking up.”

The paramedics arrived after a few minutes and took Wende to receive medical care. “He had no pulse for over 5 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 wrote on TikTok. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

After paramedics took Wende from the premises, a visibly shaken Lynch took a moment to collect himself before addressing the audience, thanking them for their efforts, which received a raucous round of applause.

“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 told the crowd, his voice shaking. “You saved that guy’s life, man.”

Recounting the story in a TikTok update posted the day after the show, the America’s Got Talent alum said he “took for what felt like forever to even realize what was going on, but people in the crowd had reacted almost immediately.”

While the man “was lying there,” Lynch recalled, “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 5 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.”

For his part, the comedian — along with the other performers who shared the stage with him in Spokane that night — made sure that Wende got to see the rest of the show he missed.

Lynch shared photos of himself by the man’s hospital bed, along with a message from Wende’s son, identified as Nathan, on TikTok. He first thanked the audience members who “brought my dad back, literally to life,” adding, “I don’t know all of your names but I hope you know how much you are appreciated.”

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He then thanked Lynch and his fellow comedians for visiting his dad, and for giving him a “memory that makes my heart happy.”

“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.”

Lynch echoed this in his own post, writing that “sitting and laughing” with Wende’s family “for hours in a hospital room was truly the reminder I needed for why comedy is so needed.”

“In a divided world filled with hurt and uncertainty, we overlook how fragile the time is that we even get to be here,” wrote the comedian.