Joe Pasquale is currently touring his latest comedy show up and down the country but one of his latest shows almost ended in disaster.
After performing at the Embassy Theatre in Skegness, Pasquale has told Kate Thornton on the White Wine Podcast that a slip resulted in a near-death accident.
"I nearly died at the weekend. I nearly killed myself, I nearly died. I really did. That close," Pasquale opened up.
He went on to explain that during his act, he uses a pair of moose antlers as a prop in order to tee up the joke: "I put too much mousse on me hair."
However, once the show had ended, Pasquale revealed the moose antlers and other props end up "strewn all over the stage".
He delved further: "I'm starting to put all my props away and I literally trip over my moose head. And it was in slow motion.
Joe Pasquale recalled his near-death ordeal
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"My moose head's on the floor all sticking up and I'm starting to go down - I'm falling on to the moose head.
"I was going to impale myself right in my belly. Seriously, I was going to die," he told a stunned Thornton.
Luckily, the antlers avoided impaling Pasquale's torso or causing any fatal damage, but he didn't escape unscathed.
"I am 62, but I am quite nimble for a bloke of my age," Pasquale continued as he explained how he managed to avoid a life-threatening result.
He went on: "So I had one leg on the ground, the other one's hanging out there to the right hand side, and I managed to push myself over. My torso went over the top of the moose head.
"It was like Tom Cruise in the new Mission Impossible film," he joked. "I actually twisted round on to my back as well - all in a split second. It was all in a split second.
"And as I came down on the moose's head, on its prongs, it only got me in the back of the leg.
"It really hurt, but I thought, 'That's ok'," Pasquale added before he revealed his tour manager "laughed" when he heard the story.
However, when Pasquale showed the injury on his leg, his manager's attitude changed: "He nearly went white, he nearly fainted. He went, 'Oh my god, you need a medic'."
The severity of Pasquale's injury clearly shocked the medic on-site as well who ended up urging the comedian to head to hospital.
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Kate Thornton was speaking to Pasquale on her podcast
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"This is in Skegness at 11 o'clock at night," Pasquale recalled. "I said 'There's no way I'm going to Skegness at 11 o'clock, I'll be there for 48 hours, it will be full of every drunk person in the world there'.
"He said, 'Well, you've got to go'. In the morning I was in Bridlington so I went to an A&E in Bridlington.
"I go there nine o'clock in the morning. They sewed me up. I had to have seven stitches," Pasquale admitted but he reflected on what could've been as he concluded: "I've got a great big hole in the back of my leg,
"But if I'd gone straight down on my belly I'd be dead."
Pasquale managed to laugh at the ordeal as Thornton listened to the entire thing in disbelief.
The comedian is best known for his stand-up gigs and appearances on some of TV's biggest comedy shows.
He was crowned King of the Jungle on ITV's I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! back in 2004.
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