Stand Up

Stand up mike ward's offence was to tell jokes in 20 ten about a disabled t v personality, the child singer jeremi ga el. Ward lost but then embarked on an 11 year legal battle to overturn the verdict. In 20 21 canada's supreme court ruled in the comedian's favor. But comedy is just as apt to run foul of the law when private interests are at stake. See comic stephen grant's legal battle with his ex wife over the right to joke about her on stage. Or sunder croon quist being sued by her own mother in law for making too many er mother in law jokes. Scottish cuber count dancule a, k