Name: Jelly Roll Came Up With His Viral CMA's Speech on the Spot
Uploaded: 2023-12-05T16:53:00.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jelly Roll Came Up With His Viral CMA's Speech on the Spot' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-12-05. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Jelly Roll Came Up With His Viral CMA's Speech on the Spot' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-12-05. Transcript available.

How was the CMAs, man? You guys got to go, dude. Congratulations, too, man.
And did you—yeah, congratulations, man.
Thank y'all. Thank y'all.
Best new artist was it, huh?
Yes, sir. It was crazy, man.
It was really interesting because I didn't think I had a chance to win it.
Really?
Yeah, man. I mean—
Is that true? You didn't think at all?
I did not at all.
Who were you up against?
I was up against Zach Bryan and Parker McCollum.
Right.
And I felt like—all pun intended to my boy, I felt like Parker had a hell of
a year.
And I feel like Zach Bryan is the second most streamed artist in country music
right now behind Morgan.
So it's like, to me, it was a no-brainer.
And I'm such a Zach Bryan fan.
So the fact that I got to sit next to him the whole night, like, it's so funny.
I'm glad you were able to, too.
Yeah. That was cool for me and him to get that moment because he was awesome,
dude.
I mean, there was a moment where I literally felt like me and him were like
tailgating and watching a concert outside of an arena.
Yeah.
You know, like, he's over there drinking. I'm ripping a weed pen.
You know what I'm saying? He's cracking beers.
There's empty shot glasses.
It's a place to see him, man.
There's empty shot glasses under my seat.
He's got four or five half-drinking drinks under his.
Everybody keeps bringing him drinks.
Yeah.
And we're just there talking about the music all night.
And I just thought for sure he would win, you know?
The last thing, right before they announced the name, was I think I tapped him
on the shoulder and said,
say something nice about me or something funny, you know?
Oh, that's cool.
And then whenever I hugged him going up there, I was like, man, you deserve
this.
You know what I mean?
And then you looked at him like, don't worry, I'll say something nice.
Don't worry.
I'll say something nice, but I can do it now.
Don't worry.
But it was really cool.
And you've had this a lot in your career, but I was blessed for the first time
in my career to have a real viral moment.
Like, I thought I'd went viral before, but it was like just building to a real
viral moment.
Like, for whatever reason.
And I didn't touch my phone for like 36 hours after the award show because it
was just such a big moment.
I was just letting it sit, you know?
And I didn't want to have my phone on me that night.
And everybody kept telling me, man, you're going viral.
And I was like, you know, I'm like, oh, cool.
I'm thinking like a couple million views.
You're checking your whoop bracelet to see if your doctor's letting you know
something.
I'm more concerned.
That ain't a whoop.
That ain't a whoop on that boy.
But so that was so wild.
And then they, was it really like you were just shocked?
I was really shocked.
I really didn't have a, I didn't have a plan walking up there.
I was just walking up there like, man, I didn't, you know, I was getting more
excited as I was getting up there.
Adrenaline's pumping.
I'm in the fucking Bridgestone Arena.
I'm on national television, dude.
I'm still a white trash kid from Antioch.
All this is like, what the fuck is going on?
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, I'm not, I'm not jaded to this.
So there's, I'm not used to this at this point in my career.
I'm still like, this is wild.
You know, and I'm standing up there.
How many steps is it up there?
Like, how high is that?
How, how is this stage?
It's like a, dude, I don't remember.
I didn't walk it, but I bet it's like 10 steps.
I tell you what, I didn't feel them.
Wow.
I was on the cloud, Bubba.
You know, at that moment, you're just like, man, this is, you know, this is
crazy.
That would be the scariest steps.
Because then, you know, once you get there, you have to turn around and say
something.
That would be what was so scary.
Yeah.
No, no.
I was just more like.
You murdered that speech.
Yeah.
I was just walking up there, like, thinking of my, I was, I don't know what I
was thinking.
I was thinking like, I tell you when I started thinking.
Was when I looked up, and this is inside baseball, I like, I have the award, I
raise it up, and I look straight up, and there's a teleprompter that's going, I'm
not shitting you, Theo.
59, 58, 57.
And I think to myself, I got a lot to say and a little time to do it.
I didn't realize until I watched the speech afterwards that I actually said
that out loud in that moment.
I was like, I got a lot of things to say, and I'm going to say it really quick.
But that was me thinking out loud, because I remember thinking that.
That's the first time I remember really thinking in that moment was like, oh,
shit, this is real.
I've got 58 seconds where they're going to start playing the music on me, and
they're going to send the Sandman from Apollo and pull me.
I was like, I better make this count.
You know what I'm saying?
And I knew in that moment, too, I was like, I'm definitely not winning another
award tonight, for sure.
I'm going to say it all right now.
I definitely didn't think I was going to win this one.
Yeah.
You know, I just fucking fired, dude.
It was the coolest thing ever.
That's so cool.
You're on a rocket ship, bro.
Dude, it was.
It's funny.
I wouldn't think of any of y'all as new artists, though, in a weird way.
But that doesn't matter.
It's just like an accolade they do.
It doesn't really matter what it is.
It's like saying, hey, man, people recognize you in the seat.
That's exactly right.
For sure.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter how long people have been winning that award that have been
around for a while.
But it is like, you're on the map.
We recognize you.
See you.
It's your time.
Yeah.
And it is, though.
I mean, I was giving you flowers out there, but it is true.
I mean, everybody sees it that it's just the lights are turned on for you right
now.
All the lights are on for you right now.
And I'm so stoked because you do.
And I've told you this before, you do such a good job with your podium that you're
on and giving back to the city and the things that built you.
And it's just I love knowing you as a fellow Nashvillian.
It's just Nashville is very well represented.
Thank you.
For sure.
No, it means a lot to me coming from y'all especially.
But you guys are really, you know, some of the roots.
I know there's a lot of guys around this area, you know.
Yeah, but you guys are people that if I mentioned like to people I'm like at
the gym with or something, there's always somebody that knows one of you guys,
you know, some of the guys that knew you weren't usually doing too well.
I'll say that.
But they're good guys, you know.
They're good guys.
Hey, that's funny.
Yeah, true story.
Fucking methadone.
I saw your cousin.
Let's go, boy.
I walked in here thinking I'm having the biggest week of my career and they're
going to get me in trouble.
And I was right.
I was like, dude, I knew it.
The day of the CMAs, not to get weird and hokey, but I walked out of my front
yard in my boxers and a t-shirt, no shoes, no socks, boxers now, neighbors
driving by waving.
And I put my bare feet in my front yard grass and I just looked up at that sun
and I just said a little prayer and I just thought like, you know what, God, I
won being here.
Like, I don't care if I win an award.
Just like help me to open the show.
Let me do it right.
Let it be a moment.
You know what I mean?
Just like, and let me enjoy tonight.
Like, regardless.
Man, I set my phone down at the house.
When I walked out, I didn't have my phone with me.
I didn't check my phone until the next night.
You know what I mean?
Like, I was present in every situation.
And because of that, I think when I got on that stage and it seemed 58, 57,
something inside of me was like, you thank God, you thank your wife, you thank
your label and you say something that fucking matters is what was going through
my mind.
You know what I mean?
Because that was that presence of like, I was just so grounded in the present
of that moment.
I knew then that moment I wanted to thank Parker McCollum.
I knew I wanted to tell Zach Bryan I thought he was the goat.
And I knew I wanted to tell my wife I loved her.
And I knew that I wanted to say something that would at least make a
motherfucker go, man, he blessed me with that.
You know what I mean?
And I didn't think it would do what it did.
I was up out of my seat.
I saw a silhouette of me just like, as you elevated, I was like, fuck that.
Fuck that.
I had tears in my eyes, bro.
I mean, the faces on the audience, all around me, some were like, oh, my God.
Some were in tears.
I was literally, you would have thought Derrick Henry just took off for a 98-yard
touchdown run.
I was losing my mind.
And you were a vessel.
So that's, you know, being a tool or whatever, being a vessel.
Like, I think when you are that present and that in tune.
Nobody's more of a vessel, I think, than you, Jelly.
Yeah, truly, truly.
I think you really do.
I think you inspire so many of us, man.
You know?
There's just, yeah, you just have a gift.
I don't even know if it's a gift, but it's like, it's not a gift that you have,
but it's just a gift that you are.
Right.
You know?
You are.
You feel like a gift, I think, to so many people, you know?
You know what I love about you?
The same dude that could say something that eloquently just thought Cameron Haynes
was the underwear guy.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, that's what makes Theo throw.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.