Comedian Mark Normand’s set cut short by ‘planned surprise’ at NYC club, startling audience members: ‘I had no prior knowledge this was going to happen’

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Comedian Mark Normand nearly left audience members scrambling for the exits when he was rushed off stage by security in the middle of his set, forcing the show to abruptly end after it was interrupted by a “planned ‘surprise’” that neither he nor the club appeared to know about.Normand, 40, was performing at the New York Comedy Club Wednesday night when an unknown man in a yellow beanie jumped onstage in the middle of his set, leaving the comic and the audience confused about the strange stunt, a video shared on X shows.“Oh hey … how are you?

What do we got, a migrant here?” Normand joked as the man got up on stage.“Oh jeez, everything alright? Just want to make sure everybody is good here.

What’s going on?” he awkwardly asked the man as he stood silently beside him.Anyone know what happened here? pic.twitter.com/wdwk9lpyXcSecurity then rushed over, yanking the man off stage and removing him from the club — leaving Normand and comedy goers bewildered by the bizarre encounter.“I really froze there, I went Mitch McConnell,” the jokester said to calm the crowd.A woman then sped across the stage after the man and followed them out, while someone in the crowd asked, “What the f–k?” in confusion.“Anything can happen at a comedy show, that was some kind of weird swinger sex party thing.”But moments later, security returned and abruptly escorted the comic offstage, which caused fans to become noticeably worried, the video shows.A woman who appeared to work for the club then came on stage and told the crowd, “Everything is fine, we just had a momentary interruption.”The worker, seemingly as confused and nervous as audience members, first told fans to remain seated but then quickly backtracked, telling them to “get up and get.