{"id":543723,"date":"2026-03-18T03:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543723\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T03:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:44:13","slug":"kid-rocks-response-to-conan-obriens-oscars-joke-about-him-is-utterly-lame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/543723\/","title":{"rendered":"Kid Rock\u2019s Response To Conan O\u2019Brien\u2019s Oscars Joke About Him Is Utterly Lame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kid Rock<\/a> has responded to a crack Conan O\u2019Brien<\/a> made about him during the 2026 Oscars<\/a> \u2014 and it\u2019s clear that he has zero shame.<\/p>\n

\"KidKid Rock smiles on the sideline during a 2024 game between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Alabama Crimson Tide at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala.<\/p>\n

Todd Kirkland via Getty Images<\/p>\n

During the Academy Awards\u2019 opening monologue<\/a>, O\u2019Brien quipped:<\/p>\n

\u201cI should warn you, tonight could get political, and if that makes you uncomfortable, there\u2019s an alternate Oscars being hosted by Kid Rock,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. \u201cIt\u2019s at the Dave & Buster\u2019s down the street.\u201d <\/p>\n

The host added that there were a \u201clot of tickets\u201d still available.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien\u2019s jab was meant to poke fun at Turning Point USA\u2019s \u201cAll-American Halftime Show,\u201d which was headlined by Kid Rock and featured some pretty lackluster performances<\/a>. The MAGA-friendly alternative halftime show acted as a protest against Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny\u2019s official Super Bowl Halftime Show. <\/p>\n

On Monday, the \u201cYou Never Met A Motherf**ker Quite Like Me\u201d singer panned O\u2019Brien\u2019s zinger about him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love a good joke, even when I am the butt of it, unfortunately this was not a very good one,\u201d he said on X.<\/p>\n

\"KidKid Rock and podcaster Theo Von at an event in Nashville, Tenn., in 2025.<\/p>\n

Jason Davis via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Which, fair. But then Kid Rock used his response to the joke as an opportunity to hawk tickets for his \u201cRock the Country\u201d tour, which critics have dubbed \u201cMAGA fest.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n

His shameless self-promotion was extra lame since the event had been steeped in controversy following his flat performance at Turning Point\u2019s alternative halftime show.<\/p>\n

The festival\u2019s two-day stint in Anderson County, S.C., on July 25 and July 26 was cancelled after several artists slated for the lineup pulled out, The Post & Courier reported last month,<\/a> including rock band Shinedown, country musicians Morgan Wade and Carter Faith, and rapper Ludacris. <\/p>\n

As of Feb. 6, the rock band Creed was also removed from the event\u2019s website<\/a> without explanation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kid Rock has responded to a crack Conan O\u2019Brien made about him during the 2026 Oscars \u2014 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,92650,75,18744],"class_list":["post-543723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-conan-o","tag-entertainment","tag-oscars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}