Kentaro Koyabashi, the director of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics 2021 was fired for cracking a Holocaust joke
He cracked that joke way back in in 1998 in one of his comedic shows.
The President of the Organizing Committee Seiko Hashimoto announced just a day before the opening ceremony that Kentaro Koyabashi, the director has been fired, for cracking a joke about the Holocaust, in one of his comedic act. He specifically used the phrases, “Let’s play Holocaust.”
During a recent interview with the Firstpost, Hashimoto said, “We realized that Mr. Koyabashi had used these words that were making a fun of the historical tragedy.”
Director of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics 2021 fired
Ever since it was announced that Tokyo would be holding the 2020 Olympics in 2013, the city has been surrounded with scandals and controversies. It has been reported that the French investigators are investigating all those officials who paid bribe to the members of the International Olympic Committee in order to make Tokyo as the host city for the 2020 games. This led to Tsunekazu Takeda resigning from the post of the head of the Japanese Olympic Committee just two years before.
The opening ceremony of the much awaited marquee event is going to be held on Friday. This ceremony is going to be held behind closed doors to curb the spread of the COVID-19 cases and would be only be attended by officials, guests and media persons.
A video clip and script of Koyabashi’s performance went viral and it was heavily criticized on social media. In an interview with the First Post, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the Associate dean and global social action director of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a Los Angeles based Human Rights group, said, “No person have the right to make fun of those who lost their lives in the Nazi genocide.”
The Japanese dude's comment was from 1998🤦🏾♂️who even has anything recorded from 1998?! Dude was 18 years old. Whatever he's done in his artistic career lead him to be creative director for the Olympics at 41 and he's getting fired for a bad joke at 18? Chappelle nailed it again pic.twitter.com/vMIEUDTr4X
— ⚪⚪⚪◢◤ (@FishNchips_) July 22, 2021
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