Former 'SNL' star Chris Redd punched in the face in unprovoked attack outside famed NYC comedy club, police say - NBC News

Former “Saturday Night Live” prima Chris Redd was punched successful the look extracurricular of a famed New York City drama nine and hospitalized successful what constabulary described arsenic an unprovoked attack.

The onslaught unfolded Wednesday evening conscionable aft 9:30 p.m. successful beforehand of the Comedy Cellar, wherever Redd was acceptable to execute that night, successful the 100 artifact of MacDougal Street successful Manhattan, according to the New York City Police Department.

Redd, 37, had conscionable exited a conveyance successful beforehand of the nine erstwhile an chartless idiosyncratic approached him and punched him, constabulary said.

Authorities said the idiosyncratic attacked the comedian “without anterior speech oregon provocation.”

The assailant fled aft hitting the victim, and Redd was recovered by responding officers with a laceration to his face. 

Emergency services responded to the country and took the unfortunate to NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, wherever helium was treated and released.

NBC News has reached retired to the comedian's representatives for comment.

Surveillance video from a neighboring edifice obtained by NBC New York shows Redd seemingly walking toward the nine erstwhile abruptly an unseen idiosyncratic punches him and knocks him to the ground.

Fabrizio Cavallacci, the proprietor of Caffe Reggio, which is adjacent doorway to the drama nine and whose cameras recorded the attack, said determination was a "huge excavation of blood" connected the ground.

“This mediocre feline was bleeding. The manager was trying to halt the bleeding,” helium told the station.

Comedy Cellar proprietor Noam Dworman told NBC New York they are “deeply upset astir what happened and we anticipation he’s okay. We privation him backmost arsenic soon arsenic possible.”

He called Redd a subordinate of the club’s family. 

“Day to time we’re proceeding of stories that are senseless, disturbing and convulsive incidents,” Dworman said.

Redd, a formed subordinate connected “Saturday Night Live” for 5 seasons, announced successful September he would not instrumentality for the 48th play successful the fall.

CORRECTION (Oct. 28, 2022, 2:25 p.m. ET): A erstwhile mentation of this nonfiction misspelled the sanction of a concern adjacent doorway to a drama club. It is Caffe Reggio, not Cafe Reggio.