‘He has come back from the dead’: The comedy legend spent eight days in a medically induced coma during the pandemic.

The famed comedian experienced a “potentially fatal” heart failure that caused him being put into an medically induced coma during the pandemic, per details from a recent documentary about the comedy star.

Featured in I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not, the star of films such as Caddyshack and the National Lampoon series, who emceed the Oscars twice, was hospitalized for five weeks in the medical facility.

“There was a problem, and he was unable to describe to me what was wrong. So, we went to the ER. His heart gave out. During those years he was drinking, he got cardiomyopathy; which is when the heart muscles get weaker, and they are unable to pump as much blood through the body with each beat.”

Physicians subsequently induced him into a coma for more than a week, before advising his child, Caley: “His return is uncertain. We are unsure how present he’ll be. Get ready for the worst.”

“After regaining consciousness, all he could do was use his vocal cords,” she continued. “He has essentially been resurrected.”

He himself has stated that he has suffered memory problems since his hospitalisation, and in the project he does not recollect some of his past professional and personal controversies, including a fight with Bill Murray in a Saturday Night Live dressing room.

The comedian noted he was “upset” by his omission from the milestone special of SNL this year, at which he was in attendance but not on stage.

“To be frank, it was disappointing,” he said. “I haven't spoken about this until now. But I assumed that I would’ve been on the stage too with all the other actors. When co-stars Garrett Morris and Laraine Newman were called up, I was puzzled as to why I wasn't. I wasn't invited. Why was I left aside?”

Chase, 82, nearly lost his life in 1980 when he was subjected to an electrical shock on the set of Modern Problems, an accident which led to a period of severe depression.