A comedic prankster has been left with horrific burns after a stunt went horribly wrong.
Duo Marty Arty and Michael Brookhouse were performing at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium this weekend as part of a Nitro Circus event.
The pair, who boast more than a million followers on YouTube alone, bill themselves as a comedy duo that does ‘science experiments using our bodies, wild stunts, as well as make the lives for ourselves and our friends as annoyingly hilarious as possible.’
However, they certainly weren’t laughing on Saturday, when a pre-arranged stunt went awry.
The skit, which was planned with Nitro Circus organisers, involved Michael taking on the role of unruly streaker opposite Marty, who played a disgruntled security guard.
Marty was to subdue Michael with a flaming whip – a stunt the pair had done before.
Duo Marty Arty and Michael Brookhouse (pictured) were performing at Melbourne’s Marvel Stadium this weekend as part of a Nitro Circus event when the pre-arranged stunt went horribly awry
However, the flaming whip became entangled around Michael’s neck and, in shocking footage of the incident, people can be heard screaming: ‘get it off him.’
The incident left Michael with burns around his neck and a weekend stay in hospital.
‘Michael was meant to be streaking and I was the disgruntled security guard that kind of chased Michael down,’ Marty explained to 7News.
‘It was a stunt we’ve done a few times. We’ve practiced it, but during the show, I completely messed it up.’
Michael added: ‘It sort of wrapped around my neck to the point where I couldn’t get it off straight away.
‘Luckily it’s no surgery needed. It’s just minor.
Speaking about the incident with The Courier Mail, the Brisbane-based funnyman revealed he didn’t feel too much pain.
‘It was a burning sensation, it wrapped around so tightly it was burning my hands as well,’ Michael said.
The skit, which was planned in advance with Nitro Circus organisers, involved Michael taking on the role of unruly streaker to Marty’s disgruntled security guard. Marty was to subdue Michael with a flaming whip – a stunt the pair had done before
‘It sort of wrapped around my neck to the point where I couldn’t get it off straight away. ‘Luckily it’s no surgery needed. It’s just minor,’ Michael told 7News
‘The adrenaline was in there so I didn’t really feel pain until 10 mins later.’
While the incident was shocking, it wasn’t the worst prank-related injury the duo had suffered recently.
Back in May, Michael was left hospitalised after a bizarre prank involving coffee beans.
‘This is the plan, I eat the coffee beans, I s*** the coffee beans, I wash the coffee beans. and then I feed the coffee to my friends. It’s a prank,’ he said in the clip.
He then swallows handfuls of whole coffee beans, washing them down with water.
Michael is then shown in a hospital bed, apparently in pain where he explains how the stunt went wrong.
He said that an X-ray had revealed a large amount of whole coffee beans in his digestive tract.
Michael eventually required surgery to extricate the offending beans.
The prank duo boast more than 10 million followers across their social media accounts.
Their videos have been watched more than 500 million times on YouTube.
