SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of this morning’s Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony live on NBC. Now, like the always too long and regularly bloated Academy Awards, Olympics opening ceremonies are repeatedly plagued by shortcomings and missteps. “This is so exciting,” exclaimed Today’s Guthrie right near the top of the opening ceremony in what was distinctly the first of many overstatements of the morning. Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony Director Fired Over Holocaust Joke In 1998 Comedy ActIn a primarily stripped down ritual, the approach had mixed results. Now, NBC’s awkward live broadcast was the first of many opening ceremony presentations over the next 24 hours for the Molly Solomon executive produced Olympics.
