The joke that initially cost comedian Mike Ward $42,000 had to do with a boy known to Quebec as “Le Petit Jérémy” — Jérémy Gabriel — a regional celebrity who sang for the Pope when he was little. Gabriel has Treacher-Collins syndrome.
“He was kind of like a Make-a-Wish Foundation type kid, right?” Ward told Joe Rogan when he went on the podcast in 2018.
