Comedian must pay $35,000 fine for 6-year-old joke

'The people in attendance laughing already answered that question'

By WND News Services
Published November 30, 2019 at 2:20pm

(CTV) A judge on Thursday rejected part of the appeal of a comedian who joked about drowning a disabled boy.

Comedian Mike Ward must pay $35,000 to Jeremy Gabriel because of a joke he told at shows between 2010 and 2013, the court confirmed.

A panel of Appellate Court judges upheld part of a ruling against Ward handed down in January 2019. Ward had been ordered to pay $42,000: $35,000 to Gabriel, $7,000 to his mother.

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