Sources tell Page Six that he was attacked by a man who appeared to have been waiting for him before he was scheduled to perform at the Comedy Cellar.
Former “Saturday Night Live” star Chris Redd was rushed to a hospital Wednesday night in NYC after being sucker-punched outside the Comedy Cellar.Sources say the comic arrived at the famed MacDougal Street club to perform a 15-minute set.
He was hanging outside around 9:30 p.m. when one of the men approached him and slugged him “out of nowhere,” according to a source, before running off.Insiders said the men had been outside the club for about an hour before the attack.The comedy world was rife with speculation that the incident could be related to Redd’s complicated love life. He’s, the estranged wife of his former “SNL” co-star Kenan Thompson. There is nothing to suggest that Thompson was personally involved in the incident.
Sources say Comedy Cellar staff helped the shocked comic, and he was taken by ambulance to Bellevue Hospital while the sidewalk was left spattered with his blood.NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Imyoevangeline/Instagram In September, TMZ reported that Redd had started dating Evangeline. She had been married to Thompson since 2011, and the former couple has two children.
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