Comedian rushed to hospital for stitches after freak accident

Joe Pasquale says he’s lucky to be alive following a  freak accident with one of his props.

The comedian was rushed to hospital after falling on to a pair  of moose’s antlers - and says it was only good fortune the bone did not puncture one of his organs.

The incident occurred during his new tour at the Embassy Theatre in Skegness

He told Kate Thornton’s White Wine Question Time podcast: ‘I nearly died at the weekend. I really did. That close.

‘In the act I have a great big pair of moose antlers and they're huge things. And the gag is I have to put them on my head and I go "I put too much mousse on me hair."

‘But at the end of the act the curtains came down and all my props are strewn all over the stage. And they bring the lights down, obviously. I'm starting to put all my props away and I literally trip over my moose head. It was in slow motion.’

‘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 on eight moose points right in my belly. Seriously, I was going to die.’

Pasquale ended up with seven stitches in his leg, but said could have been much worse had he not been quick enough to stop him falling stomach-first on to the antlers.

‘I am 62, but I am quite nimble for a bloke of my age,’ he said.  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. I actually twisted round on to my back as well – 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".

‘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.’

Published: 5 Aug 2023