Well, it appears that Muammar Gaddafi’s reign of terror is at an end. For decades he’s ruled over Libya with an iron fist. For perspective, realize that, a joke about him dying in a sitcom made all the way back in 1987 got a thunderous applause from the audience. Pretty crazy, huh? What’s even crazier though, is that that sitcom actually predicted his death as happening in…you guessed it…2011. 
 
 For some reason, 2011 was a good futuristic year for the entertainment world to set predictions in. And the strange thing is some of them have come true. 
 
 The sitcom in question was called Second Chance. It aired for one season in 1987 through 1988. Here’s the premise from Wikipedia: 
 
 “In its original format, the show starred Kiel Martin as Charles Russell, a deceased man, and Matthew Perry as his younger self, who is nicknamed Chazz. In the year 2011, Charles dies in a hovercraft accident, and his soul is promptly sent to the high spiritual palace of Saint Peter (Joseph Maher). It is there that Saint Peter determines that Charles is too good for hell but not good enough to get into heaven; therefore, Charles is sent back to Earth in the year 1987, to re-join his life during the teenage years in order to help himself, through the younger Chazz, make more moral choices.” 
 
 In the first scene of the pilot, set in this wacky space-age year, we see Kiel Martin’s character arrive at the Pearly Gates for judgment. However, before he does, Gaddafi gets his chance. Quote St. Peter; “Ah, Colonel Gaddafi. Dead at last.” Gaddafi is then condemned to be a human bomb in Hell, blown up every two minutes. Cue rapturous studio audience applause. 
 
 Pretty clever, Second Chance. But where’s my hovercraft? 
 
 Side note: Do you think an actor goes through an existential crisis when they realize they’ve played both the young and old sides of an age-swap story? 
 
 Watch the scene in question below. The Gaddafi stuff begins around the 2:20 mark. Although, please feel free to enjoy a bunch of wacky “dumb beauty pageant winner” jokes beforehand: 
 
 (h/t Reddit) 
 
 Have a tip we should know? tips@mediaite.com ||||| With the help of his friends, comedian Mike Ward is ready to take on a Quebec Human Rights Tribunal ruling that says he must pay $35,000 to Jérémy Gabriel for making jokes that violated the rights of the child singer with disabilities. 
 
 "Even Rocky lost the first one. We're gonna appeal," Ward, who has long championed the right to be offensive, wrote on his social media accounts early Thursday. 
 
 The tribunal ordered Ward to pay Gabriel $25,000 in moral damages and $10,000 in punitive damages for a joke dating back to 2010. The decision also requires Ward to pay an additional $5,000 for moral damages and $2,000 for punitive damages to Jérémy's mother, Sylvie Gabriel. 
 
 Gabriel, who spoke publicly for the first time on Thursday after the ruling, said he was relieved by the tribunal's decision. 
 
 "It's a big relief, and at the same time I'm surprised," Gabriel said. "I was happy with the decision yesterday." 
 
 He added that he wasn't surprised that Ward plans to appeal the decision. 
 
 Gabriel became well known in Quebec after he was flown to Rome to sing for Pope Benedict in 2006. He has Treacher Collins syndrome (TCS), a genetic condition that causes disfigurement. 
 
 In Ward's 2010 comedy bit, he said he was happy Gabriel — or as he called him, Petit Jérémy — was getting so much attention following the papal visit because he believed Gabriel had a terminal illness and was going to die. 
 
 Ward thought the papal visit was part of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, an organization that grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. 
 
 "But now, five years later, and he's still not dead! … Me, I defended him, like an idiot, and he won't die!" Ward said, adding that Gabriel wasn't dying, but "ugly." 
 
 Gabriel has argued Ward's jokes about him went too far and affected his quality of life. It hurt his career and confidence, and led to bullying at school, he said. 
 
 In September, Gabriel told the tribunal that the video of Ward's performance led him to attempt suicide. 
 
 Ward targets ruling during act 
 
 Ward immediately made jokes about the judgment Wednesday night as part of Montreal's Just for Laughs festival. 
 
 "One day, the caller ID read: Human Rights Tribunal. When I answered. the woman said, 'Mr. Ward, we're calling you about one of your jokes. We think you know the one," he told the crowd. 
 
 He went so far as to repeat the same jokes about Gabriel that were at the centre of the complaint from years ago. 
 
 Gabriel said he was disappointed by Ward's performance. 
 
 "It shows Mike Ward didn't understand the reason for the complaint and the decision of the tribunal." 
 
 Ward is scheduled to appear as part of the Just for Laughs Nasty Show both Thursday and Friday night. 
 
 'We're with you' 
 
 The ruling has spurred backlash across the comedian community, with many quickly declaring their support for Ward. 
 
 Montreal comedian Sugar Sammy posted a photo with Ward, writing that Ward was one of his "favourite comedians and an amazing person." 
 
 There are 42 000 reasons to go see this guy. He's one of my favourite comedians and an amazing… https://t.co/18IlzNT9hT — @sugarsammyk 
 
 "We're with you," he wrote on Instagram. 
 
 Others worried the judgment could impede free speech and humour. 
 
 Brad Williams, a comic who was born with dwarfism and whose jokes often centre on disabilities, called the decision "terrifying." 
 
 This is terrifying. A comedian forced to pay someone who got offended by his joke. #FreeMikeWard https://t.co/HexH7qH5ch — @funnybrad 
 
 Louise Richer, director for Quebec's École nationale de l'humour, said the ruling symbolized a "politically correct era." 
 
 "I am incredibly worried by the precedent this has created," Richer told Radio-Canada.
– Somebody's ouija board deserves a raise. In this scene from the pilot of Matthew Perry's short-lived 1987 sitcom Second Chance, Moammar Gadhafi is seen dying and meeting St. Peter ... in 2011. (BuzzFeed picked up on it.) OK, so the show predicted he'd bite the big one on July 29 not Oct. 20, but still, pretty dang close, no? In case you're wondering, no, the whole show wasn't about St. Peter hilariously judging notorious dead people (although maybe it should have been). The main plot was about a dead guy trying to convince his younger self to be more virtuous—this was just a prologue. But as Mediaite points out, this means that the idea of Gadhafi going to hell was deemed funny even back in 1987.