Actor-comic D.L. Hughley, who collapsed in the center of his set at a Nashville comedy club, has introduced that he examined positive for the coronavirus.

The 57-12 months-outdated surprised patrons and employees when he missing consciousness though undertaking at the Zanies comedy nightclub on Friday evening.

On Saturday, Hughley posted a movie on Twitter in which he explained to his admirers that he was handled for exhaustion and dehydration afterward.

“I also tested good for COVID-19, which blew me absent,” he suggests in the clip. “I was what they get in touch with asymptomatic. I didn’t have any signs, the vintage signs or symptoms.”

Hughley explained he even now has not exhibited any of the normal indications linked with COVID-19, like shortness of breath and fever.

“So, in addition to all the other stuff you have to glimpse out for,” he states, if you “pass out in the center of a show, onstage, you in all probability need to get examined.”

Hughley designs to quarantine in his hotel area in Nashville for 14 times. The remaining two nights of his 4-evening engagement at the location were canceled, according to the club’s on the web calendar.

“Thank you for your prayers and your perfectly wishes — and a several far more of them would not harm,” Hughley suggests in the video clip.

“Our mate D.L. Hughley had a clinical crisis even though performing on Friday and was hospitalized overnight. According to his publicist, he was struggling from exhaustion right after functioning & touring this week,” the club posted on Fb.

“Love ya, D.L. and we’ll search forward to observing this King of Comedy back again in Nashville soon!”

In addition to stand-up, Hughley is also an creator and radio and Tv set host.

He starred in Spike Lee’s 2000 live performance film, “The Unique Kings of Comedy,” alongside Steve Harvey, Bernie Mac and Cedric the Entertainer.

He also generated and starred in “The Hughleys,” which aired on ABC and UPN from 1998 to 2002 and hosted a CNN converse show. He now hosts the radio clearly show “The D.L. Hughley Display.”

With Write-up wires