{"id":525858,"date":"2026-03-15T23:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525858\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T23:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T23:48:14","slug":"oscars-live-stars-laugh-awkwardly-as-conan-obrien-opens-show-with-fiery-monologue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/525858\/","title":{"rendered":"Oscars live: Stars laugh awkwardly as Conan O&#8217;Brien opens show with fiery monologue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conan O&#8217;Brien jabs Timothee Chalamet over &#8216;ballet and opera&#8217; remarks<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">Oscars host Conan O&#8217;Brien teased Best Actor nominee Timothee Chalamet over his controversial &#8216;ballet and opera&#8217; remarks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">&#8216;Security is extremely tight tonight. I&#8217;m just going to mention that,&#8217; he said as he kicked off his opening remarks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">&#8216;I&#8217;m told there&#8217;s a concern about a tax from both the opera and ballet communities.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">O&#8217;Brien jabbed, &#8216;They\u2019re just mad he left out jazz.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"embedParagraph_1I1nW9oF\">Chalamet found himself in the midst of controversy while campaigning for a golden statuette after he said he does not want to work in ballet or opera, as &#8216;no one cares about it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773616286009_wide_galleryImage_Host_Conan_O_Brien_speaks.JPG\" alt=\"Host Conan O'Brien speaks onstage during the Oscars show at the 98th Academy Awards in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 15, 2026. REUTERS\/Mike Blake\" height=\"412\" width=\"634\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Conan O&#8217;Brien jabs Timothee Chalamet over &#8216;ballet and opera&#8217; remarks Oscars host Conan O&#8217;Brien teased Best Actor nominee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,98,88,801,17114,2942,935,3031,7689,29506,5432,46606,2726],"class_list":["post-525858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-dailymail","tag-entertainment","tag-iran","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-leonardo-dicaprio","tag-live-blog","tag-los-angeles","tag-nicole-kidman","tag-oscars","tag-pedro-pascal","tag-rose-byrne","tag-tvshowbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}