Wayland Flowers and Madame
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ม.ค. 2025
- Wayland Flowers was best known for the comedy act he created with his puppet Madame. His performances as "Wayland Flowers and Madame" were a major national success on stage and on screen in the 1970s and 1980s.
Madame's many TV appearances included Laugh-In; a long run on the game show Hollywood Squares (replacing Paul Lynde in The Center Square); a recurring comedy skit on Solid Gold. During his stint on Solid Gold, Flowers was diagnosed with HIV and eventually developed Kaposi's sarcoma, an AIDS-related cancer. Despite his illness, Flowers continued to perform. On September 2, 1988, he collapsed onstage while performing at Harrah's in Lake Tahoe. After a brief hospitalization, he visited his family in Dawson, Georgia, before returning to his home in Los Angeles. He then began hospice care at Hughes House. Flowers died there on October 11,1988 at the age of 48.
I never knew about Madame! Here after watching Raja’s snatch game. What a fantastic interview.
Im here from snatch game too! Raja was brilliant, her ability to look like/act like Madame was so cool!
So glad y’all get to experience Madame ✨💖
You need to watch TH-cam videos of her stage performances in late 1970s 👍
Wayland Flowers was phenomenal
that explains why madame suddenly appeared on my feed! i haven’t watched this season but i love drag race and i guess the algorithm figured it out? i don’t even know where i know madame from, as i was born in the 90s and just started watching her show, but i’m glad i found her again and now get to know her :)
I thought the same too. It was cool . it was insightfull . 😄
How her arms would move so fluidly, and her body language was so nuanced. Amazing.
Wayland and Madame are pretty much unknown here, in the UK, but what a huge talent. The fluidity and realism in the movements is astonishing. Thank you, Raja, for bringing these legends to our attention.
All the brilliant, talented young men, (and other great people) claimed way too early, too soon by AIDS.
Wayland and Madame still had so much to give the entertainment world, but their act was cut short. Thank you for the laughs, Wayland and Madame. Your genius lives on through TH-cam and other media outlets 💕
Yes it was too too too early . sadly . when i was 18 i was with a friend driving in palm springs , we saw a sign hanging a bar saying madame and waylan performing . i was excited to stop and see and we did . we went in and it just started . she was funny i was blessed and amazed i was there . lolo . this was in " 86" . he passed away shortly after . that was shocking that he was gone . to this day i wonder who has madame in their attic . 😢
@@frankromero5581 from my understanding there are quite few different Madame mannequins out there.
He made quite a few different ones with different outfits and hair setups and the like.
Easier to switch Mannequin than to restyle it entirely.
I know at-least one owner is taking theirs to different gay bars in their area and doing impressions of her voice and keeping the memory alive.
@@IQzminus2 yes i know i saw a short vid on the new guy . wow . he does a good copy . when saw him live in 86 i never thought he was sick .i was shocked to learn he was gone soon after that . the new guy sounds just like him . i thought i. Would never hear that voice again . 😲
Always thought he died from cancer not AIDS.
I grew up on Solid Gold! I was VERY familiar with Wayflower and Madame. When I saw Raja dressed up as Madame, I fell on the bed laughing. Seeing Raja like that, brought back so many good memories. 😂🤣
Wayland Flowers was brilliantly talented. RIP Wayland.
Campbell Koschei - you're immature, and a jerk.
no he wasn't he was only a puppet master. He was a pervert as well.
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Wayland was so talented. I used to love watching "Madame's Place" back in the 80's.
Wayland Flowers. You are loved and totally missed my friend! Truly loved by many.
Wayland is a long time dead but his inventive genius is very much alive and so loved. Bless him and bless his memory xxx
An absolute master of creating a character; let alone the mechanics of operating her. Not even a moment of shown effort. Your legacy will live on forever!
God bless him. He surely had a GREAT talent with Madame.
This guy was a genius. I remember seeing him on Solid Gold and laughing so much till it hurt. RIP Wayland and Madam.
Good memories of Madame & Wayland! Gone but not forgotten!
Here because of Raja! Such a great artist! 👏🏻
Kudos to Raja for bringing these icons to new audiences!
Wow this is so wonderful. So nice to see Wayland talk and explaining behind the scenes for a bit.
I thought the same too .
My mom loved watching Madame. She always would be laughing at the show. I have a book about Madame.
This is wonderful to see. I was living in Boston and watched this show when it aired. It brings back so many happy memories for me. Thank you for posting it.💗💗
An astounding artist. Even more apparent when he comes out of the shadows for the interview.
I MISS MADAME!!!! I just love her.
This brings me so many happy memories watching this on TV with my parents back in the 70s I love that still love it today
I am so glad i found it on TH-cam
He was such a beautiful person. There is a sweet sadness about him here
Yes there is.
he was so sick by then. What a wonderful pair
Thank you for sharing. Nobody made me laugh like Madam.
The one and only. Class act
Gone to soon. Wayland and Madame were gold.
She was so bawdy!😂
I loved Madame. This is how you do double entrendre. Naughty w/o being crass.
You truly had the most awesome sitcom I watched it then and I watch it now RIP
Getting to know Madame after Raja's stunning performance in drag race all stars
I truly loved Madame. I thought Wayland was so funny. A very good part of my childhood.🕊️💞
Oh this is classic🤩👌
Madame is BOSS.
Wayland created a legend.
RIP Wayland Brilliant Man
Wayland was a gifted and sweet man
As a young gay kid in the 70's, I loved it when Madame would pop up on some TV show.
LAtvFan as a young straight kid in the 70s, so did I!!! Lol .I hate that Wayland Flowers is gone!!! Madame was the best!!! ❤️❤️❤️
Same here. A gay kid in the deep south. I thought Madame was FABULOUS. I wanted to be her when I grew up.
It's amazing. Madame has a solid face; she can't do facial expressions, aside from opening or closing her mouth. Yet she still managed to do the perfect look of exasperation when the idiot host asked if there was any romance with Wayland. Was he the only person who hadn't figured out Wayland was Gay?
To be fair, you probably weren't really able to come out easily back then, so it's easier to imply he was straight, even if that wasn't the case.
Well, it was the '70s. It wasn't as easy to come out if you were famous back then as it is in 2022.
Growing up in the 70s in Southern Ohio there was this guy named Larry Smith and he had his cast of puppets who were on tv, in fact he had a few tv shows. He had this Charter named Hattie The Witch, and, I wondered if Wayland was from OH, or some how saw Larry Smith's charters or was inspired by him in someway. Because, madam looks very much like the Hattie the Witch charter, especially the exact face and body, only difference is the way there dressed. You know Hattie being a witch, being dressed like a witch and Madam being dressed up in Hollywood glamour.
I was absolutely terrified of that puppet when I was a child.
Madame: " He buys me all the gowns I want & I give him all my money!" ( about Wayland)
This is amazing :) now I get raja’s performance from snatch game I never got it till now
Always so funny!!
I vaguely remember her being in an ad for a drink called Five Alive.
Wayland you and the lady r the best. You will be missed for ever.
He was so talented! So sorry he died at the age I'm at now. Much too young!!
I agree that Madame should do a Blackglama ad advertising fur coats!!
Raja brought me here ❤️
Before “Avenue Q” we could have had “Madame the Musical”.
Mine too! I was so sad
Omg, a Jerry Herman Madame musical!
Raja brought me here
My mom tells me that I was afraid of Madame Puppet when I was little XD
I remember Madame from the Early 80’s, I was as well scared to death of her.. I love her and Waylons both now!
She look a lot like Natalie from the Baddies franchise 😂😂😂
If you got it, knot it: 😂🤣
I love Madame
I remember her!
what was the show he was on?
Madame's Place.
Go on Madam Mazel!
Reminds me of Judge Judy.
Madame has been working on new acts and has Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook! Just look up "madamethepupet!
i think madame makes me laugh because she is so funny i just have too Laugh eileen. c
i thought jeff dunham was the master. wayland and madam take it to a higher level. just..wow
Does it comes from Madame's Place?
Yes
When people had a sense of humor, Witt and common sense.
Who come here because of Raja?
Will madame ever come back?
No. Madame was buried with Wayland.
What year was this?
Probably 1984. Flowers passed away in 1988.
She was a highlight of my childhood. Loved watching her.
The Boys
Soldier Boy
Five fab freddy tells me everybody's fly
Anyone remember that early 80s TV show called Madame's Place? Yeah shes going to look like that 😂
We live on a mentally sick world.
❤
This is how Lil Kim looks now.
Not one lie told here ⬆️😂🤣🤣
the lady was low key homophobic, but Madame is iconic.
Madame is veal n looks like me ma lv y'all n lv wyld too
She did do a commercial for lo cal ice pops.
She is alive.
Madame did do any commercials because by then cigarettes and booze couldn’t be advertised on TV!
Poor Wayland
So 80s hairdos
That puppet is from I Pet Goat - Madam Q
I’ve seen this mentioned in family guy and king of the hill. Weird stuff.
2:10 Tina Turner
Madame should have dated George from Otto and George
This guy and his little puppet always gave me the creeps, and they still do! That laugh sounds just like Satan.
Same here. I forgot all about Madame until my first time watching Judge Judy!
Sounds like a homophonic boomer.
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His mouth moves that is why he cannot be filmed.
Yes, he wasn't a ventriloquist.
He never claimed to be a ventriloquist. He called himself an illusionist.
I wonder how Madame felt while they spoke about her?
@@judilynn9569 Neither was Edgar Bergen.
Madame’s voice is really different here. … It must be close to the end 🙁
4 more years
Is that Melinda Gates' twin???
Funny as haemorrhoids
This is terrible.