Roughly halfway through the broadcast ( which we live-blogged with reckless abandon ), during a break between Oscars being handed out, O’Brien delivered a perfectly timed quip referencing Kendrick Lamar’s now-infamous Super Bowl LIX halftime show performance.

Conan O’Brien used his gig hosting the 97th Academy Awards to deliver the kind of vintage Coco humor that the game’s been missing since his show ended, plus some shocking envelope-pushers—like when he addressed the elephant in the room with a Karla Sofía Gascón bit in his monologue.

Xzibit has thrown his support behind Kendrick Lamar in his latest defense of the West Coast lyricist’s controversial lyrics labeling Drake a pedophile.