After lightly roasting Russian President Vladimir Putin on his Geneva Summit press conference, Last Week Tonight host John Oliver focused his attention on Japan’s efforts to keep the 2020 Olympics on schedule next month despite criticism from many of its citizens.
The country has reached a national vaccination rate of just 6%, a number, Oliver said, that “should be higher than the number of entries in The Fast And The Furious franchise” in order to host the Olympics.
Though the country has already spent $15.4 billion, with government audits suggesting the number could be significantly higher, the decision to stop the Olympics is not entirely up to Japan. The power to scrap the Games, apparently, belongs solely to the International Olympics Committee.
“It would be like if your child got the flu and you tried to reschedule their birthday party, only to get overruled by the clown you hired,” Oliver quipped.
Oliver...
The country has reached a national vaccination rate of just 6%, a number, Oliver said, that “should be higher than the number of entries in The Fast And The Furious franchise” in order to host the Olympics.
Though the country has already spent $15.4 billion, with government audits suggesting the number could be significantly higher, the decision to stop the Olympics is not entirely up to Japan. The power to scrap the Games, apparently, belongs solely to the International Olympics Committee.
“It would be like if your child got the flu and you tried to reschedule their birthday party, only to get overruled by the clown you hired,” Oliver quipped.
Oliver...
- 6/21/2021
- by Brandon Choe
- Deadline Film + TV
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