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Comic Mcintyre jokes with Dublin fans after moped mugging terror
MICHAEL Mcintyre last night told an audience in Dublin of his horror after he was mugged.
The comedian was targeted on Monday afternoon by hammer-wielding thugs while picking up his son from school in London.
The masked muggers pulled up alongside his Range Rover on a moped before demanding his €17,000 Rolex watch.
Despite the trauma, he made it to the 3Arena yesterday and laughed as he recounted the terrifying incident.
He said: “It’s lovely here. I flew in this afternoon and I can tell you I am moving here – f**k London. It’s nice to be alive. It has not been a great week. I’m on edge. Yeah, I’m OK. We’re OK.
“I’ll be honest, I could have done with you lot, seriously, 9,000 Dubliners.”
Putting on an Irish accent, he added: “‘We got your back, we got your back. Who do ye think you’re f ***** g with?’
“Unfortunately, I was to fend for myself. It didn’t go well. Think of the film Taken with me as Liam Neeson – the polar opposite. It wasn’t The Fast And The Furious, rather I was stationary and f ***** g panicking.
“I was in the car, I couldn’t get it started. It is supposed to be fight or flight. Well I have a new one – just f ***** g freeze.”
Thanking well-wishers for their advice, he added: “Everyone has been so amazingly supportive, they just keep saying to me that it is just going to take time. Time is the healer. “Yeah? I’ve lost my f ***** g watch. How is time going to heal anything when I can’t tell what time it is?
“I now know why people get Rolex watches – to find out the precise time they are mugged.”
The comic, who is playing another three nights at the 3Arena, told the audience: “It is nice to be back on stage, it was touch and go whether I was going to come here.
“This is my favourite my favourite arena.” gig,