Eric André has opened up on being “way too intimidated” by Madonna when she reached out to him in a private message.
The comedian and actor was a recent guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote his podcast Bombing With Eric André. He made an immediate impression as Kimmel told him his pants zipper was undone. “Oh my God!” André exclaimed, tongue-in-cheek. “I’m horny… easy access”.
André – known for his candid interview answers and mischievous disposition – quipped to Kimmel after the host shared a picture of the comedian flashing his bare ass next to Madonna after being invited onstage at a recent concert of hers.
“Madonna has a bit of a crush on me. Not to brag,” he declared, unbuttoning his shirt and exposing his nipple.
“She slid in my DMs,” he began to explain. “I don’t want to put her on Front Street, but you know, there was a little bit of chemistry between us. It was some flirtation… I’m way too intimidated by Madonna, that’s the Queen of Pop, you can’t just waltz in there.”
André entertained the idea of seducing Madonna: “You got to come in roses, you gotta play Boyz II Men, you gotta drip chocolate candles. She slept with 2Pac and [Jean-Michel] Basquiat, [so] you gotta bring your A-game.”
“I had interest, and my sister called me, and she goes, ‘You need to bang Madonna, and I’m not taking no as an answer,’ and she hung up on me. I’m just too shy.”
When Kimmel prods to ask if André would ever reconsider dating Madonna, André bursts out, slapping Kimmel’s set table: “You know what, fuck it. Tonight, I will guarantee this audience [that] I will have sex with Madonna on this table… while Jimmy watches!”
“You know how to romance a lady, that’s for sure,” Kimmel remarked after laughing.
Earlier in the interview, André lamented a missed opportunity that he called “the biggest mistake of my entire career” – the role of Benji Kaplan in the 2024 drama A Real Pain, which ended up with Kieran Culkin and earned him an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor last month.
“I was working on something else when I read the script,” he recalled. “It was like 120 pages about two Jews babbling about the Holocaust, and that seemed a bit depressing to me upon first read. And I was like, ‘You know what? I’m a comedian; I want to stay in my lane as a comedian.'”
Earlier this week, it was revealed that Madonna had buried a long-running feud with Elton John that began in the early-2000s.