A stand-up comic has launched a £100,000 fundraising bid – by throwing himself from a plane at 15,000ft.

Peter Morgan, 68, of Mirfield, completed a tandem parachute jump but still couldn’t stop telling gags.

Self-confessed adrenaline junkie Peter adopted his alter ego Max Lemon and leapt into the unknown at the start of his ambitious bid to raise £100k in two years for Huddersfield’s Kirkwood Hospice.

Peter, raising money in memory of late wife Jacqueline, has brought comedian Max out of retirement for a series of four concerts later this year.

But for a warm-up Peter took the plunge at Hibaldstow in North Lincolnshire and raised at least £1,500.

Peter, whose wife died of cancer at the hospice last October, had never done a skydive before but loved every second of it.

He was filmed before, during and after and his jokes and banter had the cameraman in stitches.

The one liners kept coming and Peter said: “It was a brilliant experience. I am something of an adrenaline junkie and I wondered why I hadn’t done anything like this before. I was laughing and joking all the way down.”

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Peter was strapped to an instructor and was in free fall for about a minute before the chute opened and he landed sliding on his backside a couple of minutes later.

“You could say Lincolnshire Kamikazi Skydiving Club honourably discharged Max Lemon from the Three Mile High Club,” he said.

“It all went without mishap and it was an amazing rush. I would certainly do it all over again.”

Peter, who learned his trade on the working men’s club circuit before hanging up his mic, is now performing some low-key shows to polish up his routine and timing before hitting the stage once more.

He is planning variety concerts in Batley, Dewsbury, Heckmondwike and Brighouse in August, September and October.