Wheeler Walker Jr. Crashes The 2016 CMT Awards
The CMT Awards may be off the hot seat as the dumbest music awards show around now that FOX has brought back their asinine American Country Countdown Awards, but it still feels like an exercise in stupidity and futility if there ever was one. Blake Shelton won a made-up award for being the “Social Superstar of the Year” just so he could get some face time, and there had to be a record number of non-country performers in 2016 for any country awards show ever: Pharrell Williams, Fifth Harmony, Cheap Trick, Elle King, Pitbull, Luke Bryan, no wait Luke Bryan’s officially country, but you get the point—it was easily the most non-country “country” music awards show in history.
READ: Saving Country Music’s 2016 Anti-CMT Awards LIVE Blog
One of the few saving graces for the show beyond a Chris Stapleton performance of “Parachute” and a scant, 1-minute tribute to Merle Haggard via Dierks Bentley, was that foul-mouthed country music comedic country singer Wheeler Walker Jr. took time from his current tour and crashed the shindig and offered side splitting photos, updates, and commentary throughout the night.
Wheeler Walker first showed up on the red carpet, and was trolling folks through his Twitter and Instagram accounts. Then throughout the presentation, he was offering rolling commentary from the bleachers. One of the most hilarious moments had to be when Wheeler Walker Jr. mistook Trisha Osborne—the mother of the country duo Brothers Osborne—for Loretta Lynn.
“Well we didn’t win any awards but our mom did get ‘mistaken’ for Loretta Lynn by Wheeler Walker Jr. Take that,” the Brothers Osborne said in response on Twitter.
But possibly the best Bon Mot of the night occurred when Wheeller Walker Jr. sat in stone silence as Florida Georgia Line performed their current hit “H.O.L.Y.”
A video posted by Wheeler Walker, Jr. (@wheelerwalkerjr) on
There weren’t many reasons to pay attention to the 2016 CMT Awards, but Wheeler Walker Jr. made the exercise a bit more tolerable.
63guild
June 9, 2016 @ 9:15 am
Wheeler has became one of my favs very fast and his snapchat was pretty good as well last night. His band is legit and a great group of musicians and you can tell by his interview with Rogan that he has an appreciatiom of the roots of country even if his album has been labeled as comedic
Stringbuzz
June 9, 2016 @ 9:46 am
My wife just came up and showed me that video.
Hilarious.
We are going to his show next week.
Not for everyone, but to some he is very entertaining.
Laugh my Ass off with him..
Andrew
June 9, 2016 @ 10:06 am
Not really a fan of his music(I don’t really have anything against it either), but shit this is funny!
Stringbuzz
June 9, 2016 @ 11:07 am
BIRDCLOUD is opening for him. OMG this is gonna be a great show.,
Jim Bob
June 9, 2016 @ 12:10 pm
I was loving his tweets last night! Fucking CMT awards though, jebus christ..
Krotch Rhot
June 9, 2016 @ 12:11 pm
Love me some FGL! Wheeler’s a dickhead.
kross
June 9, 2016 @ 12:46 pm
Apparently Pharrell Williams was photgraphed wearing an American Aquarium hat as well. Not sure what it means or how newsworthy it is, but it seemed interesting to me.
Trigger
June 9, 2016 @ 1:22 pm
We’ve been conversing about this over in the live blog comments section too. Hard to know if he’s really a fan of the band, or was just looking to rep some local apparel from Nikki Lane and it happened to have American Aquarium on it. It is interesting though.
justin casey
June 9, 2016 @ 2:17 pm
his reaction to florida georgia line just made me bust out laughing
Jordan Kirk
June 9, 2016 @ 3:16 pm
Lol at the video seriously funny
Buck Smits
June 9, 2016 @ 7:11 pm
Everything about this is cracking me up.
BlackHawgDown
June 10, 2016 @ 8:26 am
He was the only one there wearing a cowboy hat.
Orgirl1
June 16, 2016 @ 4:42 pm
Love the video of Wheeler listening to FGL. Hilarious! FGL could truly not be more souless.