Singer Madonna, known for her boundary-pushing persona, tested stand-up material at the legendary Comedy Cellar in New York City. While some met the news with skepticism, her history of embracing humor and blurring lines between persona and reality suggests she might be genuinely exploring this new avenue.
News that the singer had done a slot in New York’s Comedy Cellar was met with derision, but she has always walked a fine line between comedy character and over-the-top pop starew York’s famed Comedy Cellar has long been known as a testing ground for hot young talent.
A report in the Sun said that Madonna tested out material for about 30 minutes, and that she was accompanied to the club by her friend Amy Schumer, who later went on Howard Stern to big up Madonna’s act. “She has something in her that’s interested in standup and she knows that, like anything else, you have to work really hard on it. She is kind of working on her set and it’s not cringey,” Schumer told Stern. “She’s funny! She’s got jokes. She’s got things to say. She’s got tea.
The press tour around Madonna’s turn in Evita and the album that followed, 1998’s Ray of Light, may have enshrined in the cultural memory the image of her as someone only willing to talk about spirituality and inner serenity, but really, that only lasted a few brief years.
Directly after Ray of Light, it seemed like Madonna was sick of being taken so seriously, and enlisted the most ridiculous of comedians to help her loosen up.
Later in her career, comedy became a way for Madonna to communicate more directly with her fans and the public. In 2012, after being dogged for years by comparisons to Lady Gaga, Madonna incorporated a mashup of her track Express Yourself and Gaga’s very similar song Born This Way into the set list of her MDNA Tour, adding in the hook of She’s Not Me for good measure.
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