Woman nearly chokes to death laughing at comic

A stand-up made a woman laugh so hard she almost choked to death at a comedy club last week.

Fellow audience members were so concerned that they rushed to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre on the woman.

However, she wasn’t choking on her food, as they thought, but laughing so much at American comic Jamie Kaler’s routine.

The 46-year-old, who has appeared on Will & Grace and How I Met Your Mother, had been recording his set at the Funny Bone in Columbus, Ohio, and put the footage up on YouTube.

After confirming that the woman – who was celebrating her 40th birthday at the club – was OK, Kaler said: ‘That’s the best compliment I ever had.

‘She’s alive, it’s going to be OK. If she was dead and I said the compliment line [that would have been bad].’

‘Seriously, I just made someone laugh til they almost fucking died. You guys have to go home and Twitter that “Kaler almost killed a woman.”’

Kaler, who used to be in the US Navy added: ‘I don’t want to brag, but I’ve been approached by the US government as an assassin' – saying he could tell his jokes to kill off the enemy.

Here is the footage:

Published: 15 Nov 2010