If you’ve been on the internet at all over the past few years and have seen a post about Garth Brooks, there’s a good chance that you have seen at least one, or maybe even a dozen, comments reading “Where are the bodies, Garth?”
Even before Brooks’ sexual assault lawsuit earlier in the month, these comments have been seemingly everywhere that the “Friends in Low Places” singer is mentioned. The seemingly random nature of the comment has led many to be confused about what it means and where it came from, and, honestly, I don’t blame them.
The “Where are the bodies?” comments stem from none other than comedian, Tom Segura, and his well-documented dislike for the Oklahoman singer.
Back in 2018 on his podcast with fellow comedian Christina P., Your Mom’s House, the pair began discussing Brooks’ announcement of his upcoming stadium tour at the time and his admittedly weird Facebook posts at the time.
Here’s the main video that prompted Segura’s fascination with the weirdness of Garth Brooks:
After watching a clip of Brooks discussing the aforementioned stadium tour and pondering what was going through his head, Segura dropped the line that forever changed comment sections while discussing the “Callin’ Baton Rouge” singer: “What he’s thinking about is all the bodies he’s got stacked in graves in his yard, for sure… He’s probably killed 200-300 people in his life.”
The comment, at the time, seemed like nothing more than a funny, one-off line about Brooks and his weird persona, but it became so much more than that. Immediately after the episode aired, Brooks’ comment sections on social media began getting flooded by fans of Segura commenting the now-famous line, “Where are the bodies?”
He also prompted fans of the podcast to comment a plethora of different references to clips watched on the show such as “Touch my camera through the fence,” “I got a DUI, baby,” “You know what a banana split is?” and simply “What?”
It would be one thing if that line was a fleeting trend that faded a couple of months or even a year after the episode aired in 2018, but it simply hasn’t. Though his comments on his most recent posts throughout the past year have been limited and/or disabled. If you go back to posts as recent as 2023, you can see hundreds of comments on every single post referencing Segura’s line.
Even on our Instagram post reporting on the serious topic of Brooks’ sexual assault lawsuit, we had dozens of comments referencing Segura and the “Where are the bodies?” line.
Segura has continued his disdain for Brooks in the years since, discussing their history on Joe Rogan, Theo Von and even Pat McAfee’s podcasts.
On Theo Von’s podcast, Segura said that Brooks is well aware of him and the impact he’s had on his social media presence. He noted that the joke originally stemmed from the conspiracy theory that missing person cases would align with many of Brook’s tours.
As for the question, “Why Garth?” Segura has never really given a clear answer, but I think it’s mainly due to the fact that he’s simply an easy target. Between the aforementioned weird Facebook posts, his theatrics at his concerts in the early ’90s, the Chris Gaines persona and his generally goofy demeanor, he’s pretty easy to make fun of and Segura took advantage of it.
Watch Segura himself explain the history of the comments himself here: