Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga & Kermit at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

The couple sharing a kiss upon arrival.

Together with Tony Bennett in Muppets Most Wanted.

Lady Gaga (born Stefani Germanotta in 1986) is an American recording artist. She appeared with the Muppets in Lady Gaga & the Muppets' Holiday Spectacular which aired on ABC in November 2013, and makes a cameo appearance in 2014's Muppets Most Wanted during "We're Doing a Sequel."

She took Kermit the Frog as her date to the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. In an interview with Perez Hilton, Miss Piggy dismissed the concept of them dating, saying that "No, no I don't talk about lies. I talk about truth."

In 2010, The Monster Ball Tour featured creations by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

She also made headlines wearing a top made entirely of plush Kermit the Frogs by Jean Charles de Castelbajac on German television. She wore the outfit as a statement against wearing fur as it "looked like a bunch of dead Muppets".

Jason Segel and Nicholas Stoller had originally written a cameo for her in The Muppets. It was reported that Lady Gaga would make her first big screen appearance in the 2011 film and was going to be facing off against Miss Piggy in a dance-off. However, when director James Bobin was forced to bring the length of the film down to 98 minutes, Gaga's sequence was dropped from the film. Producer Clint Morris said:

“Stefani Germanotta's [aka Lady Gaga] big moment from the film was cut. With her entourage, including Ed Helms, Eric Stonestreet and John Krasinski, Gaga would have gone head-to-head with Miss Piggy in a sequence. Rumor has it Madonna's "Vogue" was somehow involved (which makes sense considering Piggy is the editor of Paris Vogue magazine in the film). Guessing Gaga, who judging from the smooch she shared with Kermit at the 2009 Video Music Awards is a big Muppets fan, is crushed she got the scissors treatment.”

Gaga does not appear in the finished movie. It is unknown if she ever filmed the scene, or if her scene was cut earlier in the production.

Lady Gaga did, however, appear as herself in Muppets Most Wanted, during the song "We're Doing a Sequel" (appearing next to Tony Bennett at a craft services table).

On March 28, 2011, Gaga's 25th birthday, Ellen DeGeneres called the artist from her daily talk show, The Ellen Degeneres Show, to wish her a happy birthday. During the call, Ellen presented a birthday cake to the singer, commemorating a number of famous outfits that the artist wore throughout her young career, including a Kermit the Frog face, facing the audience.

In her memorandum for the May 2011 issue of V Magazine, Gaga writes: "Just like sometimes Picasso was Matisse’s Mondrian, and vice versa. Bowie is often my Mondrian, as are Michael Jackson, Prince, Lita Ford, and Madonna. Mugler is my silhouette’s Mondrian, Cindy Crawford is my sexuality’s, Kermit is my whimsy’s."

In April 2020, Gaga collaborated on the cross-network special, One World: Together at Home, credited for helping curate its celebrity lineup which also includes the Sesame Street characters.

Lady Gaga in her Kermit dress

Gaga's Kermit dress on display

Lady Gaga in an Animal-inspired dress

Ellen's birthday cake for Lady Gaga, including Kermit's face

References

The "Little Monsters" in The Muppets Mayhem.

• On November 23, 2010, Sesame Workshop launched a viral marketing campaign on Facebook and YouTube called "Cookie Monster should host Saturday Night Live!" In the video, Cookie Monster auditions for the job by putting on an entire show in a short amount of time. For the musical guest, he parodies Lady Gaga playing the piano singing "Cookie Face" in a dress made out of cookies.

• When "C is for Cookie" began playing at Toy Fair 2011, the Hasbro representative guessed that it was "something by Lady Gaga". (YouTube)

• In the 2012 book The Twelve Days of a Muppet Christmas (and a Chicken in a Pine Tree), one of the ringtones shown on Miss Piggy's phone is "Lady Moi-Moi," a reference to Lady Gaga.

• Gonzo says he "wouldn't mind" going out on a date with Lady Gaga in a 2012 Loaded interview because she wears feathers as well as Camilla the Chicken.

• Lady Baa Baa is a parody of Lady Gaga who appears in the 2012 edition of Elmo's World Tour.

• Lady Baba is a parody of Lady Gaga who appears in Episode 4727 of Sesame Street.

• In a 2018 interview with NME, Miss Piggy cited Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett as one of her favorite musical duos.

• In 2019, Rizzo appeared briefly in a Lady Gaga "sea urchin" costume in the Muppet Babies episode "My Brother Vinny."

• In The Muppets Mayhem episode "Virtual Insanity," a tweet by the Electric Mayhem manages to get under the skin of many fandoms, including the Little Monsters, with their leader played by Jack McBrayer.

External links

• People "Kermit the Frog: I'm Not Dating Lady Gaga" September 17, 2009
• Entertainment Weekly "VMAs 2009: Best/Worst Moments"
• Official site
• IMDb