Actor and comedian Rob Schneider recently announced that he will not be watching the 2024 Paris Olympics after the controversial Last Supper parody in the opening ceremony. He took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to announce his distaste for the opening ceremony and that he would not be tuning into the Olympic Games this year. “I am sorry to say to ALL the world’s GREATEST ATHLETES, I wish you ALL THE BEST, but I cannot watch an Olympics that disrespects Christianity and openly celebrates Satan,” he said. “I sincerely hope THESE @Olympics get the same amount of viewers as @cspan,” he added. In another post on X, Schneider shared a photo of the opening ceremony Last Supper parody saying, “Guys with their genitalia hanging out in front of children?! Drag Queens?! I wasn’t sure if I was watching the @Olympics or if I was watching a school board meeting…”

Guys with their genitalia hanging out in front of children?! Drag Queens?!
I wasn’t sure if I was watching the @Olympics or if I was watching a school board meeting… pic.twitter.com/JpRw4UPqDA

— Rob Schneider (@RobSchneider) July 28, 2024

During the opening ceremony in Paris, a group of 18 performers, three of them from “Drag Race France,” struck poses behind a long table, that many thought resembled the Last Supper. Many people were outraged by the scene, even celebrities took to the internet to share their thoughts. Candace Cameron Bure said on her Instagram, “To watch such an incredible and wonderful event that’s gonna take place over the next two weeks and see the opening ceremonies completely blaspheme and mock the Christian faith with their interpretation of the Last Supper was disgusting.” Even the French Catholic Church’s conference of bishops criticized the scene. “This ceremony has unfortunately included scenes of derision and mockery of Christianity, which we very deeply deplore,” the conference said in a statement.

The Olympics said the performance was put together by artistic director, Thomas Jolly, and was an “interpretation of the Greek God [of wine and festivity] Dionysus” to make “us aware of the absurdity of violence between human beings.”