- The NAACP Image Awards were, like,
super amazing this weekend.
Some of the most fun I've ever had.
Jay-Z and Beyonce attended, which is always, like, a,
like, it's anywhere they go.
It's, like, I've seen presidents
that have less security than them.
(audience laughing)
Like, literally, like, they arrived
and it was, like, royalty.
And it's a room, like, full of, like, movie stars
and TV actors and musicians, and Jay-Z and Beyonce come
and everyone's like, "Shh."
And they go and, like, they sit in the front row
and we're, like, all behind them
and everyone's, like, looking over and it's just like...
(audience laughing)
And you can see and then, like, everyone in the back
is almost like breathing the same air,
(audience laughing)
breathing the same air.
What was, this was honestly maybe one of my favorite moments
in life that I will cherish until I die.
So at the end of the awards,
so Jay-Z was the recipient of the President's Award
for all the work that he's done
with criminal justice reform, right?
He's done an amazing job fighting to reform, you know,
mass incarceration in America.
And Beyonce is up for the final award of the night,
which is Entertainer of the Year.
So she might go up and then receive her award,
and so, like, there's gonna be a whole thing,
like, when she goes, is she gonna leave?
Is Jay-Z gonna stay?
So she wins, right? She's Beyonce, she wins.
So she goes up and she receives her award
and then she leaves backstage,
but Jay-Z's still sitting in the front row
and his security, I guess, didn't realize
that the show was gonna end as abruptly as it did, right?
And so they, like, his bodyguards are, like,
standing at the edge of the theater where we're at,
and we're in the middle of the theater,
and then Anthony Anderson comes out and he is like,
"All right, goodnight, everybody.
That's your show, goodbye."
And that was it.
So everyone just stands up and everyone's, like,
they just bum rushed the stage
and then everyone just rushes to Jay-Z,
'cause they're like, "It's Jay-Z!"
(audience laughing)
Everyone rushes towards him.
Now, I'm trying to get out, 'cause if you've ever left any,
you know when you leave an event, there's gonna be chaos,
there's gonna be, doesn't matter, celebrity or not,
traffic is traffic, all right?
So I'm like, "I want to leave."
So I see Jay-Z, and now Jay-Z's getting mobbed,
and so, like, he wants to push his way out
and the bodyguard wanna push their way
but, like, you're jammed cause everyone's leaving that way,
and Jay-Z can't push the people cause he's Jay-Z, right?
You can't push people when you have a billion dollars.
(audience laughing)
Everything is a lawsuit waiting to happen. You can't.
So he just has to keep his arms by his side.
So I run up to him and then I'm like, "Jay!"
And he turns and his eyes light and he's like,
"Oh, Trevor, what's up?"
And I was like, "Oh, he remembers me, thank God."
And so...
(audience laughing)
'Cause not like we're friends, I just know him.
So I'm like, "Oh, yes, it's me."
And I was like, I'm like, "Are you okay?"
He's like, "My bodyguards."
And then I was like, "All right, just walk."
And he's like, "What?"
I'm like, "Just walk," and I don't even know why,
but I grabbed the back of his jacket
(audience laughing)
and I push him through the crowd
and I put my head down behind him
and people, like, trying to come, and I just started going.
I was like, "We gotta move, people.
We gotta move, people. We gotta move, people.
Hey, yo, Jay, we gotta keep moving.
We gotta keep moving. Sorry about it, no selfies.
We gotta keep moving, y'all. We gotta keep moving, y'all."
And people are like, "Jay-Z, can I get a selfie?"
"Yo, Jay, can I get-"
"I'm like, No, no selfies, people.
Everybody, we gotta keep moving.
Sorry, Jay, we gotta keep moving, Jay.
We gotta keep, and I literally push him through the crowd
and we, like, barrel through.
And then we get to the other side
and the bodyguards are there,
and then they start, like, clearing the sides,
and then I'm like clearing the back.
People are trying to come from the back and I'm like,
"No, we gotta keep moving. No selfies."
And no one see it's me,
'cause why would you think that I'm pushing Jay-Z?
(audience laughing)
So no one is like, "Is that Trevor Noah behind Jay?"
No. So I'm just, like, there behind him.
"We gotta move, Jay-Z. We gotta move, Jay."
Sorry, ma'am, no selfies.
We gotta move, we gotta move.
We gotta get him outta here,"
because the guy's gonna get mobbed, so he's pushing.
And then the security guards, the most amazing thing,
they're walking together and I guess there were two.
One was supposed to be ahead of him,
one was supposed to be behind him,
but there's a moment where they look at each other,
like, "Wait, if you're here..."
(audience laughing)
And so then, like, the one, like, there's a panic
and the one turns and then he sees that I'm, like,
pushing Jay-Z, and this guy just, he came over,
he was going to break me.
(audience laughing)
It was like slow motion.
He, like, turned and he come and I'm like,
(Trevor speaking in slow motion)
And he comes and then as he grabs, Jay-Z's like,
"No, man. He's doing a great job, man, let's go."
And the bodyguard goes, and then, like,
I just carried on rolling with Jay-Z,
just, like, pushing him, walking ahead of him,
just like, "No, no, no, no pictures, no, no."
And I was just, like,
I was, like, Jay-Z's security the whole way through,
and then we went into, like, a secret exit
where they leave out of, like, Beyonce.
There's like, I feel, like they built a basement for them,
(audience laughing)
'cause that's not how I came in.
We came in on the street
and then I was like, "So where are we?"
And we just keep moving, just keep moving.
And then he jumped in the car,
and then he turned, he's like, "That was amazing, baby.
We gotta do it again sometime, baby. That was amazing."
And I was like, "Yes, I'm Jay-Z's security.
(audience cheering)
I made it."
(upbeat music)