DALTON, Ga. — Who would have thought a 30-year-old man would be the personification of Southern mommas?

According to Jessica Dentmon of Dalton, Darren Knight, aka Southern Momma, a comedian and social media sensation, is just that.

“He must’ve been to my house and recorded it without me knowing because he says everything I say,” said Dentmon, a fan of Knight who saw him perform recently at the Dalton Distillery. “He really personifies the southern momma.”

With Knight on tour and selling out shows across the South, it appears there are a lot of southern mommas who agree.

On Saturday, Aug. 13, Knight was at the Dalton Distillery, performing his third sold-out show there. All three shows sold out within hours.

During a question and answer session in his act, an audience member asked if his wife could kiss Knight on the cheek.

“After the show, we’ll have a meet and greet where everybody who wants a photo can get one, and we’ll do sugar and all that,” Knight said. “We won’t leave here until everybody who wants to get a photo, gets one.”

And for the next hour, fans lined the distillery waiting to meet Southern Momma.

Bella Hampton of Dalton said Knight is “handsome” and “really funny.”

“I figured he’d say something funny to me and he did about my hair,” Hampton said. “If he comes back we’re definitely coming. I really hope they keep bringing people like him to Dalton. We need more events like this.”

Chuck Butler, manager of the Distillery, said Knight “is a really good person” and “down to earth.”

“He’s selling out big shows, 1,100 seats in Rome and Kentucky. You know, he’s traveling a lot and he’s still coming and doing small shows with us,” Butler said.

Southern Momma’s first appearance was in a video Knight posted to his Facebook page, “Southern Momma Pickin’ Em’ Kids Up From School.”

Knight said a friend shared a video to his Facebook page of a man making fun of moms picking their kids up after school.

“I thought it was so funny. It was something along the lines that I’m doing now and I thought I could do it better,” Knight said. “I had a lot of material to work with.”

With his hair pulled back into a bun and an undeniable Southern accent, Knight in the video narrates an afternoon of picking kids up from school. It “took off like wildfire,” he said.

“It started getting a lot of views. It was shortly after Facebook started counting views and I remember thinking if this gets 10,000 views it’s going to be the craziest thing,” Knight said. “I think by the end of that week it was at a million.”

The southern momma Knight referred to in his skit at the Dalton Distillery is a “different type of people; a very humble people,” and is more than a fictional character. Southern Momma comes from Knight’s life growing up in Alabama.

“I like to say that 60 percent (of Southern Momma) is inspired by grandmother and 40 percent is my own mom, for the simple fact that my grandmother’s a little bit more animated, she’s a little bit more of a spitfire,” Knight said. “She is a heavy influence on the Southern Momma character.”

Knight has posted other videos that narrate common experiences of southern mommas, including “Southern Momma at the Ball Field,” “Southern Momma Gettin’ Kids Ready For Bed” and “Southern Mommas and ‘Pokemon Go.’”

“I feel guilty sometimes because some of these standup comedians work on becoming a comic for so long, you know, and they get to a certain level, and for me to get to that level so quickly I’m really blessed, I’m very humbled by it and I’m very grateful,” Knight said.

“I really haven’t experienced much negative. Most people enjoy it,” Knight said. “I think one lady said one time that I make Southern women seem ignorant.”

But Knight assures southern mommas that is not his intention.

“That’s not what I want or how I want Southern Momma to be interpreted,” Knight said. “That is literally how I was raised. That is the things that I heard and I think that’s why Southern Momma took off the way that she did, because not only is it that I heard those things and it’s true what I’m saying, but they’re things that other people heard when they were growing up, things that people still say today.”

Knight expressed this to the crowd in Dalton and they erupted with applause.

Knight said he believes his videos “aren’t kneeslapper comedies,” but are “videos of relation,” and he feels “very grateful and blessed” to have gained such a large fan base.

“For y’all to watch these videos and be able to relate to them and enjoy them, is great to me,” Knight said to his fans. “We have to get up early every morning to go to work and for y’all to get up and go to work all week and come spend your hard-earned money to see me on stage, I want you to understand something, that means a lot to me and I don’t take that lightly.”