 Ward has been the subject of controversy.At Jean-Marc Parent's 2008 Just For Laughs French gala, he made a joke about Revenu Québec, in which he mentioned Cédrika Provencher, a young girl who had been abducted in 2007 in Quebec and whose remains were found in December 2015.Ward also joked about Jérémy Gabriel, a disabled boy with Treacher Collins syndrome.