Country singer Jelly Roll and Prince Harry just came up with a way to get lots of ink for the Invictus Games: a fake neck tattoo.
The games, a multi-sport Paralympic-style event for wounded or injured service members, including veterans, will take place Feb. 8-16 in Vancouver, Canada. Prince Harry co-founded the games in 2014.
On Thursday, Jelly Roll and the prince released a comedy video on Instagram to announce that the singer will perform on the final night of the games.
The video, which was filmed in a New York tattoo parlor in September, begins with Prince Harry seated in a tattoo chair waiting for Jelly Roll to show up for a meeting.
When Jelly Roll does arrive, he is very excited.
“Hey, hey! Tattoos! Speaking of! What’s up! I’m such a fan, dude,” he said, before dropping a bombshell. “Do you know I could not believe it when they called me and told me Prince Harry wanted to get a tattoo today? They wanted me to give him his first tattoo? This is the coolest thing ever!”
Harry then asks the singer why he’s wearing a glove.
“We’re giving you a tattoo about the Invictus Games,” Jelly Roll responds.
The Duke of Sussex, taken aback, insists, “No, I came here to ask you to do the Invictus Games. There’s no tattoo in this. I can’t get a tattoo!’”
The man who sang “Need a Favor” then offers to do him a royal favor ― but there’s a price: “I’ll play the Invictus Games. You just let me give you your first tattoo.”
Prince Harry considers his options and responds, “All right, screw it. Let’s go.”
Jelly Roll then ups the ante and says, “We gotta go for the neck!” while the youngest son of King Charles suggests, “I was thinking the lower back or on my ass.”
The singer has other ideas. “Nobody wants to see your ass, Harry!”
“No, that’s the place where no one is going to see it,” Harry responded.
“This is for the world!” Jelly Roll volleys back, pointing to his own neck tattoo.
“A small one?” Harry asks hopefully.
“Like a baby getting its first haircut,” Jelly Roll replies.
Harry moans that he should have gotten the tattoo “on my ass” and laments that “it feels big, man.”
“Commitment, prince,” Jelly Roll said. “This is going to be huge, man.”
When the tattoo is completed, Prince Harry is shocked that the tattoo reads, “I am Jelly Roll.”
“Is that your name? Does that say Jelly Roll? You put your name on my neck?” the prince says. “Wait, wait, wait, wait!”
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“I’ll see you in Vancouver!” Jelly Roll yells as he leaves the tattoo parlor. “I’ll be there. I appreciate you!”
The video ends with Prince Harry saying, “Oh, shit!”
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