A comedian is praising audience members at a recent show for stepping in to save a man who went into cardiac arrest – all of which was captured on camera.
Drew Lynch , a stand-up comedian known for his run on season 10 of "America's Got Talent", said on social media that a man attending his Sept. 12 show in Spokane, Washington, collapsed and suffered a heart attack.
The man, later identified as Dick Wende, survived and was treated at a nearby hospital. Lynch and two other performers from the show, Akeem Hoyte-Charles and Rachel Aflleje , visited Wende in the hospital days later to finish the set.
"Sitting and laughing with his family for hours in a hospital room was truly the reminder I needed for why comedy is so needed," Lynch wrote in a social media post . "In a divided worl