Luke Bryan Storms Out of Botched Prank
Folks are laughing at Luke Bryan, but not for the reasons they’re supposed to be.
According to professional prank pullers Roman Atwood and Dennis Roady in a new interview, they were hired by Luke Bryan’s record label Capitol Nashville to pull a prank on the superstar during one of Luke’s Spring Break shindigs. However Luke was apparently drunk when the pranksters tried to pull the ruse, and the situation turned ugly, resulting in the prank getting scrubbed for public consumption. Speaking with the “Allegedly” podcast, the stars of the new film Natural Born Pranksters spilled the beans on the botched prank, and it might even be better than if they had pulled it off.
“His record label flew us down to Panama City,” they explain. “We pulled off the prank, we executed it. He was doing a meet and greet with the sorority girls, hundreds of girls. We were playing two guys in the sorority so excited to meet Luke Bryan. The company set us up with a one on one. He was wasted. He was plowed. So I just start naming off everybody else’s music. I was like ‘Dude, your song ‘Thunder Rolls’ blew my mind. I still listen to it to this day!'”
Luke was apparently in no mood to deal with the hijinks, and his management thought the video portrayed the country superstar in a negative light.
“He ends up storming off so pissed they wouldn’t sign the release. They flew us down, they paid a lot for it,” Roman Atwood and Dennis Roady explain. Apparently when one of them asked Luke if he’d ever hooked up with Dolly Parton, that was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
“He was so confused, and then the alcohol made him angry. And ten minutes after the interview we had with him, he had to come out and perform on stage. So we’re out in the crowd watching him.”
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You can hear the full interview below.
March 28, 2016 @ 7:36 am
C’mon man. Luke Bryan, or one of these f’n youtube “prank” troupes. How the hell can you pick a side that doesn’t involve both of them being in a plane crash? That’s just not fair.
March 28, 2016 @ 8:00 am
Who’s picking sides? I just reported the story. A bunch of folks were emailing me about it, so here it is. It sounds to me like they both did sort of end up in a plane crash. The prank never got posted, and the label is out their money and effort.
March 28, 2016 @ 12:44 pm
Superstar LMAO he can’t carry a tune!!!
March 29, 2016 @ 9:34 am
Umm you wish. Went to see him in concert back in October. He has some serious pipes. He is probably the best live singer I’ve seen so far.
March 30, 2016 @ 10:54 pm
As much as I can’t stand Luke Bryan or his music, I have to disagree, the guy can sing very well.
March 28, 2016 @ 8:00 am
Totally agreed. Everyone involved here is an insufferable prick.
March 28, 2016 @ 7:49 am
luke bryan sounds like a real joy to be around.
March 28, 2016 @ 7:55 am
Lame post, Trigger. Pranks are stupid, regardless of the target. And “professional” pranks are even more so. No one should be castigated for any bad response to an attempted prank.
March 28, 2016 @ 8:11 am
Of course this post is lame, but I’m a little baffled why people think I’m picking sides or “castigating” Luke Bryan. I just reported what happened, and purposefully left out any opinion or embellishment. It’s a funny little story. A bunch of folks emailed me saying I should post something about it so I did. It took me like no time. Just trying to lighten the air on a Monday morning.
March 28, 2016 @ 6:47 pm
I found the post entertaining, and was only let down when I found out the video was wrapped in black tape. If people are posting that the article is stupid, they never learned that they can just skip over articles they don’t like without commenting on them.
March 29, 2016 @ 9:26 am
Fair enough Trigger. I was reading much of your previous Luke Bryan stories into this one (BTW, I agree entirely with you on his musical output).
March 28, 2016 @ 7:58 am
LOL this is great.
Lest we forget this episode from four years ago:
http://www.countryweekly.com/news/luke-bryan-blows-online-after-restaurant-asks-him-remove-his-hat
Dude’s a douche, but no surprise there.
March 28, 2016 @ 8:03 am
What a loser…
March 28, 2016 @ 8:06 am
It’s always the Country artists like Bryan that try so hard to put forth a “good ole boy” image that are often the least down to earth, humble people. The best analogy I can use for it is it often seems the biggest “bible thumper” or people who preach the loudest about traditional. family values are the guys who have the deepest, darkest skeletons crawling out of their closets.
March 28, 2016 @ 3:27 pm
Yes, he and his wife were out for the evening celebrating their anniversary. He was wearing a baseball cap and was asked to remove it during their meal. Not showing any class for his wife
or himself by TEXTING the entire event of what happened. No class. Imho.
March 28, 2016 @ 6:51 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqp1bGuiHHs
March 28, 2016 @ 7:59 am
The greatest prank ever pulled involving Luke Bryan is when he convinced the mainstream he was a country singer.
March 28, 2016 @ 8:02 am
I’m sure he has no idea what “Thunder Rolls” is about, because that’s something that Country singers know, and he’s not one.
And come on couldn’t they think of a better prank, like driving his truck into a lake, or putting a cord on the stage for him to trip over???
But seriously this is just dumb, a record label pranking an artist, and said artist being drunk… This is just evidence that the world sucks.
March 28, 2016 @ 3:21 pm
He seems to fall while on stage enough as it is. Why expend extra effort to speed up the inevitable?
March 28, 2016 @ 7:59 pm
Because it’s funny
March 28, 2016 @ 6:43 pm
I’ll bet you money he does know thunder rolls
March 30, 2016 @ 11:01 pm
Lol, you sound like an upset 14 year old fan.
“Uhuh, he does too know country songs!!!”
March 28, 2016 @ 8:07 am
Why oh why does Luke Bryan still do all that Spring Break stuff? He’s been doing the same thing for years, and he started in his 30s. It’s embarrassing. And it’s creepy the way he always has to engage with sorority chicks. Or high school chicks…
March 28, 2016 @ 8:26 am
Right? I thought last year was supposed to be his last year doing Spring Break? I mean, he is a good looking guy, but I am 39, as is he. I can’t imagine being 18 and lusting over some guy literally old enough to be my father. It’s past time that his label, or whoever, stops marketing him as a goofy, partying, fraternity type guy. After you’ve been married for a decade and have two kids, those days have sailed.
March 28, 2016 @ 8:33 am
To be fair, the pranksters did not say what year they did this prank. It could have been a couple of years ago. Luke Bryan has been too old to be doing the Spring Break thing for a decade now, so the concern still stands. But this could have happened a while back.
March 28, 2016 @ 9:55 am
I thought the same with last year being his wrap up that inspired the tune
“Spring Breakdown”. ; )
March 29, 2016 @ 11:48 am
So, I’m guessing you also can’t imagine 18 year old boys lusting over Salma Hayek, Jennifer Aniston or Sophia Vergara?
You didn’t want to fuck Lynda Carter or Bo Derek in 1995?
You’re a stronger man than I, haha.
March 29, 2016 @ 12:25 pm
Umm I’m a female soooo….Not really on the Lynda Carter/Bo Derek thing lol. Hard to tell from the name, I know. I get what your saying. I do some mad lusting over Anderson Cooper (don’t judge me!) and he’s quite a bit older than me. I guess it’s more the way that he encourages the 20 years younger crowd that skeeves me out.
March 29, 2016 @ 7:00 pm
Tom Hanks and Denzel then, haha.
But yeah, I get what you mean. The way he encourages it is skeevy as fuck.
March 29, 2016 @ 3:55 pm
First off, I hate Luke Bryan just as much as anyone else who reads this site, if not more than most.
But I can’t blame the guy for doing the spring break thing. As a single guy in his mid-30s, if I had access to that many young single girls who are looking for one thing and one thing only, I would take it as my sworn civic duty as well. Not going to lie.
It’s like Wooderson said: That’s what I love about these high school girls, man. I get older, they stay the same age.
March 30, 2016 @ 11:04 pm
Cept he’s married. With kids. For like 10 years.
March 28, 2016 @ 8:29 am
Wow. A lot of commenters have their panties in a wad over an innocuous prank. Sure, it would be far better if these guys were amateurs and average Joes and not put up to do it.
As long as they cause no serious harm, what’s wrong with a prank? A prank on Luke Bryant is even better.
March 28, 2016 @ 8:41 am
There are stories in the media all the time about mainstream stars either pranking each other, or getting pranked. The pranks are orchestrated, sometimes filmed, and then press releases are disseminated about them, or they’re broadcast on big shows, etc. The reason for this is because it humanizes the performer to their fans. It makes them more “real” in public perception. It’s a PR move. Luke Bryan’s own label paid for this prank, and flew these guys down to Florida for it. If folks want to be angry at someone, be angry at Luke Bryan’s label. Why would you get mad at the pranksters for getting paid to do a prank? Believe it or not, they were actually trying to help Luke Bryan’s public perception. My guess is some folks may be offended by this story because they’ve been the victims of pranks and been poor sports about it too. I’ve been the victim of pranks myself and you feel like a complete dumbass afterwards, but you also have to be able to laugh at yourself and the situation. That’s the whole lesson.
March 28, 2016 @ 8:44 am
I remember Luke Bryan giving his last “SPRING BREAK CONCERT” last yr. He said it was time .
If you get a chance to Ever check Luke’s YouTube videos back in 2009-2010, then you will see
His demeanor when he’s had a few drinks. Not “happy drunk”. Think his management.team has
cleaned it up as the yrs have gone on. Not surprised by this prank and the fall out.
Keep in mind,he is married and has children….just wonder if this behavior is accepted in his home. Yes he is an entertainer and it has always been a business, but how does ones spouse
bring themselves to just say ” it’s just part of the business”? When the tickets don’t sell,and the
promoting slows down,how will it effect the Super Star Country singer? Eventually this will happen to Luke Bryan like every other entertainer when the “fad” is gone. Stay tuned,should be interesting to see how he and his family handle it.
March 29, 2016 @ 11:41 am
Good point. Btw did anyone see the picture two college kids on spring break posted this week after bumping into Luke outside his beach house? They said he was wasted and asked them if they were ready to get naked.
It’s on Instagram. So, I think the answer to the question is: he us like this always but when he’s ‘on’ they mask it well. He is mr it right now, but eager to see what happens when the star fades. His wife is a lovely person and I do hope she doesn’t get the sh$& end of the deal
March 29, 2016 @ 11:54 am
Do you have a link to said Instagram post?
June 26, 2016 @ 12:37 am
I’d like to know who posted it so I can go check it out, just curious
March 28, 2016 @ 9:07 am
I like pranks, though Roman Atwood is known to take it way too far. When he pranked his wife into thinking he had just accidentally killed their child, I just had to stop watching his videos. I think there is a good chance his wife was in on it, but I just can’t with him anymore.
This one sounds pretty harmless, though.
March 28, 2016 @ 10:06 am
Fuck pranksters.
March 28, 2016 @ 7:54 pm
Fuck people who can’t take a joke
March 28, 2016 @ 10:40 am
By far the most comical pranks I’ve seen are the Jeff Gordon Pepsi ads, there are two of them.
The “victims” of those took it really well.
most of the people that read this site have probably seen them.
March 28, 2016 @ 11:20 am
The only time I like pranks is when they go horribly, or even mortally wrong, for the pranksters.
March 28, 2016 @ 3:11 pm
What might help is if Mr. Bro-Meister Bryan would quit showing up drunk as often as he does. It would probably put him in a better frame of mind if he ever gets pranked like this again. I doubt, though, that it’d result in him getting away from his penchant for doing all those songs about beer-drinkin’, dirt roads, and calling even grown-up women “GIRL” all the time, not to mention putting ever more royalty checks into Dallas Davidson’s greasy palms.
March 28, 2016 @ 3:33 pm
At this point I think everyone has noticed Luke’s drunkenness on stage. Only leads to wonder what the family man is like at home. Every genre of music changes and record sales decline,
then concert ticket sales drop. When this starts happening to Luke I don’t think a beer or two
Will be enough for him. WATCH This Space.
March 28, 2016 @ 7:57 pm
i get the impression this dude has a drinking problem
March 28, 2016 @ 8:06 pm
I get the impression that he just plain ol sucks in all ways possible.
March 30, 2016 @ 7:48 am
The good news is that Luke Bryan once drove his truck into a pond. The bad news is that he got out
April 1, 2016 @ 4:14 am
I saw Luke Bryan last July. He talked more than sang and when he did sing, he wasn’t good at all. Maybe the crew didn’t sequence his background lead vocal tapes properly. Randy Houser went on before LB and completely upstaged him in the vocal department. Trigger, didn’t you post an article from Rolling Stone regarding singers and their range, from best to worst? Luke Bryan was one of the worst, according to this list. However, the topic here is his inability to handle a harmless prank. Guess the mighty Luke Bryan doesn’t like to be pranked but he sure enjoys being a punchline.
May 14, 2016 @ 12:21 am
Let me start off by saying that Luke Bryan is a disgrace to country music and an annoying fraud. That being said, there comes a time when sophomoric pranks become pretty stupid. For most of us normal human beings, that time comes when we graduate high school…college at the very latest.
June 26, 2016 @ 12:33 am
Honestly I’m not gonna lie, yes I am a fan of Luke Bryan but I feel like he’s kinda done a whole 180 since his beginning. He came into fame a little late which isn’t terrible but to start off as an older man trying to get 20 year olds to flash their boobs at you during a spring break concert is ballistic honestly. His new album KTL I can tell only has about 3 songs that Luke actually speaks through I feel as if the others were pushing him to get more sales and stuff like don’t get me wrong, “Strip It Down,” is a good song but I would’ve of chose it for Luke being that he is a family man with now 3 kids and is coming up on 10 years of marriage. To me, he should be portrayed as the old fun Luke who sang about beer and hunting ya know country man stuff instead of becoming this all of a sudden sexual trying to attract 15 year old girls as a 39 year old man. I don’t know just my opinion no hate still a fan but I’d rather have oldschool Luke the one who claimed,”I’ll stay me,” instead of this new dude who I’m slowly becoming unimpressed by.