--- title: Dwayne the Rock Johnson Reads Mean Tweets description: Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Bette Midler, and Liam Neeson read mean tweets on Jimmy Kimmel Live canonical: https://time.com/4046386/dwayne-therock-johnson-mean-tweets-jimmy-kimmel/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-23T15:51:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:25:07.588Z og:title: The Rock Knows Exactly How He Feels About This Mean Tweet og:description: Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Bette Midler, and Liam Neeson read mean tweets on Jimmy Kimmel Live og:url: https://time.com/4046386/dwayne-therock-johnson-mean-tweets-jimmy-kimmel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Rock Knows Exactly How He Feels About This Mean Tweet twitter:description: Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Bette Midler, and Liam Neeson read mean tweets on Jimmy Kimmel Live twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # The Rock Knows Exactly How He Feels About This Mean Tweet  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 23, 2015 3:51 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Sep 23, 2015 3:51 PM UTC On Tuesday night, as part of the special “Mean Tweets” [week](http://time.com/4044303/benedict-cumberbatch-mean-tweets-jimmy-kimmel/) on _Jimmy Kimmel Live_, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Bette Midler, and Liam Neeson did a dramatic reading of mean tweets about them.”The Rock” goes for the jugular, with a crude response that plays off the original insult. Midler took a tweet that said she had a “big penis” as a compliment. And Liam Neeson just gave up and pretended to cry after reading a tweet from a user who called him a “butt” and told him to “eat s\*\*\*.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4046386/dwayne-therock-johnson-mean-tweets-jimmy-kimmel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4046386/dwayne-therock-johnson-mean-tweets-jimmy-kimmel/"},"headline":"The Rock Knows Exactly How He Feels About This Mean Tweet","datePublished":"2015-09-23T15:51:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:25:07.588Z","description":"Bette Midler and Liam Neeson do it too","url":"https://time.com/4046386/dwayne-therock-johnson-mean-tweets-jimmy-kimmel/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4046386/dwayne-therock-johnson-mean-tweets-jimmy-kimmel/","name":"The Rock Knows Exactly How He Feels About This Mean Tweet"}}]}] ```