Comedian reveals brush with death as child

Published date16 April 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
The comedian, 51, said he was treated in hospital in Ireland when he was still a toddler and was told he 'nearly didn't make it.'

Speaking on the podcast Where There's A Will, There's A Wake with Kathy Burke, he said: "You've got to be cruel to be kind ... I think that is the first thing I ever said that my mother thought was funny.

"I had meningitis when I was a child.

"So my first memory is a lumbar puncture in Limerick in the General (hospital).

"I was three, I think, and ... I was always told it was very close to death.

The doctor sort of went, 'it's going to be very...

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