Comedian Gallagher Awake, Telling Jokes (Update)

The 65-year-old comedian Gallagher came out of a medically induced coma Sunday after suffering a heart attack last week

Gallagher is awake and telling jokes after doctors slowly woke him on Sunday morning, the Associated Press reports.

His promotional manager, Christine Scherrer, says the comedian is breathing on his own, moving around and talking to family members. He had until Sunday been in a medically induced coma after suffering a heart attack last week in Texas.

Also read: Gallagher Suffers Heart Attack Before Texas Performance

Doctors had planned to wake the 65-year-old comedian on Saturday, but he was trying to wake on his own, according to Scherrer. 

Scherrer says the comedian had two stents replaced after collapsing Wednesday before a performance at a bar in Lewisville, a Dallas suburb.

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