Rock has now responded, writing on X: \u201cI love a good joke, even when I am the butt of it, unfortunately this was not a very good one.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, he used the increased spotlight to his advantage by promoting tickets for his Freedom 250 tour \u2013 The Road to Nashville shows.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cEither way, if you want to see a REAL good show this spring\/summer that celebrates America and 250 years of Freedom \u2013 make sure you buy your tickets from (ugh) Ticketmaster for my Freedom 250 tour \u2013 The Road to Nashville. There is a reason for this, TRUST ME!\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere during O\u2019Brien\u2019s opening monologue, he also poked fun at Timothee Chalamet, who went on to lose out to Michael B Jordan for the Best Actor in a Leading Role prize.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Brien took a playful swipe at the star\u2019s recent comments that \u201cno one cares\u201d about ballet and opera.<\/p>\n
He quipped: \u201cSecurity is very tight tonight.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s concerns about attacks from the ballet and opera communities.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re just mad you left out jazz.\u201d<\/p>\n
The camera cut to Timothee and his girlfriend Kylie Jenner, and he was seen laughing at the jibe.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Brien also mocked Netflix boss Ted Sarandos, joking his attendance at the Dolby Theatre ceremony was his \u201cfirst time\u201d inside a theatre.<\/p>\n
Impersonating Sarandos, he asked: \u201cWhy are they all together enjoying themselves? They should be home alone, where I can monetise it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rock has now responded, writing on X: \u201cI love a good joke, even when I am the butt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[94392,1443,95,430,23552,173666,156,24267,6101,91058,28139,51243,111,139,5006,69,96136,148619,5270,2584,179427,25263,1629,19993,208,303],"class_list":["post-334585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-94392","tag-about","tag-and","tag-celebrities","tag-claimed","tag-conan","tag-entertainment","tag-freedom","tag-good","tag-joke","tag-kid","tag-monologue","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-not","tag-nz","tag-obrien","tag-obriens","tag-one","tag-oscars","tag-plugs","tag-quip","tag-rock","tag-slams","tag-tour","tag-very"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}