Dispatches from District 48
Posts tagged ‘Treacher Collins Syndrome’
Via Steven Green at Instapundit, comes this story of a comedian getting fined $42,000 by Canada for telling a joke:
Canadian comedian Mike Ward was fined a whopping $42,000 by Quebec’s Human Rights Tribunal for jokes he made about a disabled boy.
The child, Jérémy Gabriel, who suffers from Treacher Collins Syndrome, is a bit of a national celebrity in Canada after he sung for the pope in 2006 essentially because everyone thought he did not have long to live. Ward’s joke was a rant about how the child was supposed to die, that he “stole a wish” and is unkillable.
Hmm, I believe I have made this same joke about Keith Richards at least a hundred times in the context of messing up my dead pools. I better not travel to Canada.
