Jelly Roll had a wild answer when asked about his dramatic weight loss: cocaine
The country star and rapper made the joke during his late-night monologue while guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live, poking fun at the explosion of Ozempic and other GLP-1 weight-loss drugs before setting the record straight. Jelly Roll said he lost the weight through diet and exercise—and joked that, while he’s proud of doing it the old-fashioned way, he also feels like someone who bought a horse and buggy right before cars hit the market
Producers cued a recent Fox News segment in which an anchor claimed Jelly Roll had a bad case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, adding, “They should put a warning label on Ozempic.”
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Feeling the need to clarify how he lost 300 pounds, Jelly Roll snarked, “First of all, Jesse, I’ll have you know Ozempic is the only drug I haven’t tried. I know it sounds unbelievable, but I lost weight the old-fashioned way. Cocaine.”
He quickly clarified that he was joking, explaining that he started getting in shape before the GLP-1 craze took off
“And I’m kind of proud of the fact that I did it through diet and exercise,” he said. “But I also kind of feel like a dude who bought the last horse and buggy day before they started selling cars.”
Staying on the subject of weight loss, Jelly Roll then pivoted to how his monologues have gone viral over the past week, joking about the reaction to his jokes about President Donald Trump
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“I can’t believe out of all the jokes I’ve told the past few nights, the one that really seemed to make people mad about what I said about the president was when I said he was overweight,” he said
“I thought fat on fat crime was okay!”
Jelly Roll then offered his own prescription for how Trump could shed some pounds
“If I can lose all that weight, he can too. And in fact, there is a new medication on the market designed specifically for him,” he said
Cue the joke ad for the faux drug: “Donjaro, a once-daily injection that goes right into your presidential ass, and reduces cravings so you can get right back to the executive orders that matter most. Side effects may include drowsiness, irritability, confusion, bruising of the hands, massive cankles, and orgasmic grunting.”
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