Olympic Ceremony Director Fired Over Holocaust Jokes

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The Tokyo 2020 Olympics organizing committee has fired the man in charge of planning the event’s opening ceremony, which is set to take place on Friday.

Kentaro Kobayashi, a former Japanese comedian who has been the director of the Opening Ceremony’s program since 2019, was fired after a video of his comedic routine surfaced wherein he makes light of Nazi Germany’s mass murder of millions of Jews.

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