{"id":530458,"date":"2026-03-18T08:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/530458\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T08:46:09","slug":"kid-rock-reacts-to-conan-obriens-oscars-diss-over-alternate-halftime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/530458\/","title":{"rendered":"Kid Rock reacts to Conan O\u2019Brien\u2019s Oscars diss over alternate halftime show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Kid Rock was not impressed with Conan O\u2019Brien\u2019s joke at his expense at the 2026 Oscars.<\/a><\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien hosted the Academy Awards for a second year in a row on Sunday, taking aim at the Epstein files<\/a>, Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s ballet controversy<\/a>, and Rock\u2019s alternate Super Bowl halftime show<\/a> during his opening monologue.<\/p>\n

\u201cTonight could get political, and if that makes you uncomfortable, there\u2019s an alternate Oscars being hosted by Kid Rock,\u201d O\u2019Brien quipped. \u201cIt\u2019s at the Dave & Buster\u2019s down the street.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added there were \u201clots of tickets\u201d still available.<\/p>\n

Kid Rock fired back on social media the next day. \u201cI love a good joke, even when I am the butt of it, unfortunately this was not a very good one,\u201d the musician wrote on X, before taking the opportunity to promote his upcoming tour marking the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n

\"Oscars<\/p>\n

open image in gallery<\/p>\n

Oscars host Conan O\u2019Brien joked that Kid Rock was holding an \u2018alternate\u2019 ceremony at Dave & Buster\u2019s (Getty)\"Kid<\/p>\n

open image in gallery<\/p>\n

Kid Rock headlined Turning Point USA\u2019s alternative to the NFL\u2019s 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show (YouTube\/Turning Point USA)<\/p>\n

\u201cEither way, if you want to see a REAL good show this spring \/ summer that celebrates America and 250 years of Freedom – make sure you buy your tickets from (ugh) Ticketmaster for my Freedom 250 tour – The Road To Nashville. There is a reason for this, TRUST ME!,\u201d Rock wrote.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brien was poking fun at Turning Point USA\u2019s \u201cAll-American Halftime Show,\u201d<\/a> headlined by Rock, which was arranged in protest of Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny headlining the official Super Bowl Halftime Show this year.<\/p>\n

The right-wing nonprofit\u2019s show aired simultaneously with the NFL\u2019s halftime spectacle for people who were angry about the Latin Trap artist performing in Spanish. <\/a>The award-winning rapper has also been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, Rock seemed to mime his way through his performance of his 1999 hit \u201cBawitdaba,\u201d clips of which were quickly mocked on social media. <\/a>The show was watched by a peak of 6.1 million viewers,<\/a> while Bad Bunny\u2019s halftime show set a new all-time global record with 4.157 billion total views<\/a> in the first 24 hours across TV, YouTube, and digital platforms.<\/p>\n

Rock, an outspoken supporter of the president<\/a>, said beforehand that the Turning Point show was engineered for conservative Americans to celebrate their patriotism, adding that right-wing views are not represented in mainstream media.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a big portion of this country, like it or not, that\u2019s underserved entertainment-wise,\u201d Kid Rock said. \u201cWe\u2019re just [going to] go play for our base. You know, people who love America, love football, love Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House expressed support for Turning Point\u2019s show, reposting a video of it on social media. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth wrote on X that his family had tuned in.<\/p>\n

President Trump also bashed the official Super Bowl mid-game show in a post on Truth Social, labelling it \u201cabsolutely terrible\u201d and \u201cone of the worst, EVER!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":["post-530458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530458","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=530458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}