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Debate: Should comics be allowed to make fun of children?

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Some famous comediens weighing on a debate over whether its okay to make fun of a child with a disablity or a deformity.

For Hamilton native Martin Short, the answer is simple, you don't do that.

The debate over whether stand up comics have carte blanche is raging over a case before the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal.

The parents of young singer Jeremy Gabriel want $80,000 in damages from Quebec comic Mike Ward, for making jokes onstage about the son who was born with craniofacial deformities and partial deafness.

But Ward's lawyer is arguing  it is an issue of freedom of expression.


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