Ruby Wax Meets Madonna (1994 Interview)
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- Ruby Wax Interviews Madonna in order to promote her (then upcoming) album "Bedtime Stories"
Ruby Wax Later branded her 1994 interview with Madonna for BBC show Ruby Wax Meets Madonna as her “most miserable showbiz experience”.
“I thought we were going to bond but she hated me on sight.”
“We were setting up the cameras and she was saying, ‘No, no, no, I don’t want that camera, I want that camera.’ I got nervous and I was asking dumb questions and then she got up and left.”
Ruby, who also famously put the singer’s underwear on her head during the interview, explains why she did it. “I needed to end the show with some comedy,” she explained
“She left her handbag so I rifled through it and found some of her underpants and put them on my head and started doing some comedy. Madonna looked into the room and saw it. She has never called me since.
“As for her pants, they were like a piece of dental floss with some cotton and some frills.”
Ruby is too hard on herself, I think this was a really informal and funny interview and Madonna actually seemed to be enjoying it I think!! I don't see hate in her eyes at all - she was laughing and cuddling up to Ruby!!
Georgina Lewis you dont see hate coz she has know emotions
Totally agree, Madonna is having fun. She would flat out say if she hated the experience as she has done in many interviews :)
I know ive listened to Ruby talk about this interview and look back with a mortified soul but its an amazing interview and Ruby is a great interviewer and brilliant in general. Madonna is really funny when she asks Ruby if her head is greasy but she's just been honest. If someone took my knickers and put them on their head I would be thinking the same thing but would only say it to a friend afterwards :-) that's what's so great about Madge she just says it.
@@dtzjones7632 She has more emotions than you have spelling ability. If you're going to be a smart ass, at least be smart to begin with.
Thank God Madonna “got” Ruby’s comedic style of entertainment in advance. So many people don’t.
This interview is golden. An the end ... CLASSIC!
Madonna is an amazing artist, she's inspired, excited, empowered, elevated & blazed a trail for 35yrs & for this I'm eternally grateful! She changed the world like no other! I feel privileged to have lived in her era & experienced her live. I could never repay her. ooh look at u, Wayne Goss!!! Love you channel! I'm still using your under eye bag technique & love your channel💯🤔
Wayne! Love u. I never understood why Ruby thought this interview did not go well. Madonna seems much less guarded here, much less pretense. Like two gals chattin’...
Erotic-caaaaaaaaaa hoooo hoooo 😂
*One of my favorite! **#Gerard** X :-)*
@Viiktor XIV 🔵 we always think we know how other people feel, huh?
Madonna was totally into this, she was coming back full force with her own brand of humor and Ruby is always hysterical. Nothing wrong here!
So why did she cut the interview short? She was just being polite.
Agree. You can tell Madonna loves it. Ruby is a great interviewer from everything I’ve seen. She’s also a great interviewee!
@@seansmith445 source? Genuinely interested!
@@thethrowawaythatstayed7055 It was just my opinion.
The interviewer is amazing! She was fun and made Madonna feel like she was talking to a friend. Where are interviewers like her today?
I really think Ruby is a bit of an old cow
Ian Fester I told you agree with you on that even though people change over years ten to fifteen to twenty years in overtime there opinion changes as well just like with the friend you're opinion will change whether it will be beneficial or deflecting on a pursing or deflective on a person better yet please excuse my talk to text
Craig List People won't tell you but if you look it up and really searching do your research and all that stuff you realize that ruby wax looked up to or at mired joan rivers
Megan Anderly in bed with madonna was the influence here
Ian Fester I’m getting? I thought Ruby was terrible here
I actually think it's a really revealing interview, she opens up quite a lot.
+Gayham agreed. not sure why she thins the madonna interview didnt go well. madonna seems like shes in a really good mood. rudy is obnoxious but i understand that some enjoy that type of human
+aidan morris i
+Gayham It really is. Poor Ruby is just too insecure. Madonna is likable and so New York/East Coast USA. She's a regular girl like Wendy Williams.
2dasimmons are you havin a laugh she would walk past a homeless person and spit on them
Absolutely my sentiments exactly ✌
There was an interview that Ruby did, speaking about how she went wrong with this interview. I don't see it, I'm 45 and have followed Madonna since 1983. This was the most candid and down to Earth interview I've ever seen. She made Madonna relax and be real. I really enjoyed this.
We're in the same boat, been in the same Madonna radar since '83 too.
I think Ruby made a good interview, no stupid questions, the good thing about this is that she had a conversation, relaxed and funny. But in the other hand I think Ruby was a little too invasive, and Madonna made an effort to keep good spirit. It was a good interview though.
I think she got some really good answers and found out things M had never said before. No one has ever asked before about how she feels about her body and she gave a really sweet answer.
DID THE INTERVIEWER SAY STICKER FANS OR SICK OF FANS? LOL I CANT FIGURE IT OUT BUT I NEED TO KNOWW
that's why she hates it, Ruby is miserable and her goal was to ridiculized her but she got intimidated and the opposite happened...
I am a huge fan of Ruby Wax as well as Madonna. I can't believe I haven't ever seen this interview! Great interview and Ruby, you are seriously a talented lady! 5 STARS! Tim xx
This interview was a success! Madonna was in a good mood and was a good sport. I don't understand what the haters and bitching about.
Madonna can be witty but there is always an edge.
Ironically they were talking about Princess Diana, at The Ritz Paris and just two years later, she would spend the last night of her life at this hotel.
wow. i watched this at least seven times, and never connected the dots. thanks !!
three years this was 94 diana died in 97
3 years sir
Ruby really had Fun with this & it showed ❤🎉❤
Ruby calls this her worst interview ever. Ironic , since to a Madonna fan of 40 years this ranks among one of my favourite .
Agree.
I think Ruby calls it her worst interview because she seems uncomfortable at times during the interview...like uncomfortable silences at times...or just weird awkwardness...like she didn't know what question to ask her next or which direction to take the conversation
Such a pity that people feel intimidated when they interview Madonna. This is actually EVERYTHING
Now Madonna is always difficult in interviews. She was on Graham Norton last year and she was so rude to the other guests and looked ridiculous
@@ElvisLivesUpstairs *💖Madame X should stOp wearing corsets😈🙃*
"What do you think it's coming in the next years?" "Some wrinkles". Madonna can't stop laughing.😆
Bad chauffeur at the ritz - sounds familiar.
This has to be the most open and happy I've seen Madonna ever do. I've been a fan for over 35 years.....Ruby wax was a interview genius. She got the stars to kinda let their guards down without them even realising they were doing it.. ❤🇬🇧❤
I love the casualness of this interview. Does not even look like an interview.
Ruby wax was intimidated by madonna and felt she lost control over the interview...she says that she went in to aggressive towards madonna and it went downhill from there. She blames herself on it however anyone watching can see that it was actually a good and revealing interview.
She could of talked about the music and process etc than focusing on ageing.
The 90's were really a different time
So much fun
Awesome ..full of swagggggg
As every bloody decade is when you’re young. And old.
The best!
Yeah much better! No wars and freedom. Plenty of nightclubs before the millenials shut them all down. Also times were more modern in music electronica curvy cars, shop lighting, scenery. Things have gone all retro these days. Coffee shops and tea shops and naked light bulbs is rule of the day now. Perhaps the Victorians have been reincarnated.....
What the hell is everyone talking about?! Madonna seems to enjoy the interview! She's being spontaneous and goofy, just like Ruby, she's laughing all the time and not bothered by the questions, it even looks like they're girlfriends.
This is a funny interview!
I think Ruby had mental health issues
Me too.
Deer Heart I think your right about that
If you watch the Ushi interview with Ruby, she admits that Madonna didn't like her.
@@michelle88960 Madonna doesn't like anybody.
I'm not surprised Madonna brought this interview to a premature end. Ruby was acting really over familiar and behaving like she was a friend. It was awkward to watch.
This was really bad
It’s so funny hearing Ruby’s recollection of this interview. Madonna was so controlling about the cameras but she chose the wrong one that’s why Ruby looks airbrushed because it had gel on it. She said “I looked creamy and Madonna looked like the surface of the moon” 😂
u just don't get interviews like this anymore
I'm so glad Madonna finally let down her guard after a few minutes. She's always good for a laugh when she let's her realness shine out. Hilarious, really.
A legendary interview, with two of my favorite women in the whole world!
Haha you have to love this, I don't understand why the interviewer talked to badly about Madonna and the interview later, calling it an ugly interview, I think it's so amazing and funny
She didn't talk badly about Madonna. What did she say?
I first watched this interview 12 years ago and thought nothing of it. I actually thought it was a fun and intimate interview my first time watching. As I watch it back and hear Ruby’s own tortured perspective, I really see more of Ruby’s insecurities. Madonna is stiff at first but loosens up (i.e. talking about cumming!) later on in the interview. I still enjoy it after all these years! Also, Madonna was in her mid-30’s and looked amazing.
You have Madonna in front of you, and you ask her about a washing machine....lol
This interview was hilarious. A great one!
Amazing interview!
I loved it!
😂😋😘
I actually loved the interview because it is unconventional. But the end was a disaster. I just don't get it why Ruby is so fixated on the bag! It just comes off really strange. I mean here's Madonna moving away from her because she keeps digging the bag, announces she is ready to leave and Ruby's still digging the bag! I don't know if something happened off camera but I suppose if there was any other footage, it would be there. Ruby did ask odd questions, started it all wrong (as she has said herself), she comes off a bit aggressive. Still Madonna seems quite playful and relaxed even though this does not do much favors for her new album release (which is why she was in Europe doing interviews). Anyways... after Ruby has blown M off at the end, she then sees Ruby doing a mock-up of herself as she's leaving... those two things is why she never got a second interview from Madonna. Madonna doesn't mind if you ask her tough or even odd questions, as long as their not stupid questions. She does care about camera angles and lighting - naturally, if she is doing her promo work and she's been in the business long enough to know her angles and how she wants to be portrayed on film. It's funny that should distract Ruby from doing her part. After all, we are talking about camera angles. Madonna is not mean about it, she just says that if you want to do this type of shot, don't use this camera, use that one. Okay, so the "don't touch my trunk" was a bit bitchy but that was after Ruby's rather off start to the interview. Jonathan Ross gave her a hard time in 1992, two years prior to this and Madonna got visibly angry during that interview - yet he did get a call. Madonna may be a demanding interviewee but Ruby messed her own chances up. Ruby is a brilliant and funny but blowing Madonna off at the end of a rather long interview (which she doesn't even grant often)... that is what finished her chances of ever scoring another interview. The whole bag incident just turns into this odd invasive episode of WTF. But, nevertheless, I still enjoyed this interview. At least it wasn't boring!
i agree. the only time Madonna seemed annoyed was the end with ruby going through her bag
I don’t like it when people start looking into my bag. That’s rude and crass. I used to like Ruby Wax but the more interviews I see the less I like her. I would not like being around her.
around that time that was Ruby's thing, she hosted a daily talk show in the U.K and would pick random people and look in there bag and say funny things.
@@vickyvictoriawilliams3254 The interview is funny but it sure has it's cringe moments. It seems like great fun. I'm sure Madonna didn't have as bad of time that Ruby think she had... but to get an interview with someone like Madonna who is notorious for not granting only handful interviews (long ones) per promo tour she should have at least explained why she was so hung up on the contents of her bag.. it just becomes a bit of a train wreck. Even Ruby thinks she did bad on this one though all things considered, a little too much. I did enjoy the interview, Madonna seems to enjoy the chat (she usually puts people in their place in interviews so she was playing the game), so yea it was a funny... just that at some point it seems that some invisible line has crossed and the whole thing finishes quite cringeworthy.
@@vickyvictoriawilliams3254 And thanks for explaining the bag thing to me, I didn't know it was her trademark back then.
I always liked this interview I don't think it was bad.
Madonna is legit determined to remain young, very fearful
References to Diana at the Ritz paris - how scary.
Interesting some people say they had a fun interview. Ruby Wax herself said this was a difficult interview on radio many years later.
AN AMAZING AND FUNNY INTERVIEW! one of the best!
Ruby is greatttttttttttttt ohhh such a funny interview I wish she another one today :)
I think for once Madonna was overpowered by the interviewer, rare. Madonna almost looked embarrassed about about all the chin posture she was trying to create and Ruby just rubbished the whole idea. Madonna looks tensed here she needs to learn how to relax and enjoy herrself sometimes and let go. Ruby has a great smile, natural, Madonna only perfected it years later.
Ruby says this was horrible but I love this interview
Here again after 3 years and I have to say ruby still says this is one of her worst interviews but I honestly think Madonna didn’t mind ruby and she actually opened up a little which is rare
I love this interview with Madonna and Ruby Wax...
I think Ruby made a good interview, no stupid questions, the good thing about this is that she had a conversation, relaxed and funny. But in the other hand I think Ruby was a little too invasive, and Madonna made an effort to keep good spirit. It was a good interview though.
"Where did you get this guy from?" "He came with the camera" 🤣
One of the best ever interviews ❤️
Great interview, love how rudy was saying just be you stop controlling everything, very interesting
MDNA: Where did you get this guy?
Ruby: He came with the camera.
😄😁😆
LMAO, i nearly spit my drink out at that part.
What a great interview!
Madonna really drowned in her own ego. Ruby was a pleasure (as always!)
This is really a good interview! Whatever their mental states were at the time 👍🏼
Both of them were really into it! Madonna clearly reads the environment to her liking and she can really and easily get into whoever is interviewing her. Ruby is very funny and Madonna went for it too. If this was a recent interview it would still make sense. You don’t get this from many people these days. You don’t get intelligent pop starts to be able to carry on a decent conversation.
25:46 the fact that Ruby sings “rub your hands all over my body” instead of “put your hands all over my body” is pretty funny 😆🤣 to me for some reason.
Bill Odie, Bill Odie...
@@eccremocarpusscaber5159 who is Bill Odie.
@@eccremocarpusscaber5159 who is Bill Odie?
Loooooved this interview. Looooooved Bedtime Stories!!!
This lady is awesome and she brought out sweet little girl laugh from Madonna. I love making a lady laugh that she will cackle like a lil child. It's my way of entertaining. An adorable laugh is contagious.
Such a smart interview!
Ruby is so abrasive which works and doesn’t work... Madonna seems to be apprehensive but excited! And vice-versa.
Unfortunately the last minute let’s everything down.
The first 3/4 of the interview went well. The questions were fun and interesting, and Madonna seemed to enjoy herself. Going through the trunk and purse started out pretty funny, but it went downhill when Ruby was more interested in Madonna's belongings than Madonna.
when she rubbed Madonnas coat on her made uped face and lipstick, it was over. Madonna was a good sport. I would have taken it outside at this point lol
omg im dying.
"is your head clean!?" "i dont want germs on my crotchless panties.
Lol madonna said she would never live in London and 6 years after she got married and moved to London
I feel like a book could be written about this interview. There are so many dynamics that could be dissected from each moment to the next. Truly an "odd couple" vibe. Fascinating.
Madonna walked out on her in this interview. Poor Ruby, she has done such a fantastic job.
When Ruby said that she knows an AA guy, I thought she meant Alcoholics Anonymous...
Me too! Then I realized she meant Triple A
I love this interview and Madonna was giving it. I have seen more awkward interviews with Madonna where she clearly built a wall around her. In this interview, she was rolling with it. As for the handbag part, it seems staged and I don't think it was Madonna's real handbag at all. It is known that Ruby Wax was going through a rough patch, mentally and I think she judged herself too hard for this video.
...and the irony is Princess Diana died driving away from this hotel 3 years later...and Madonna now walks to the gym with her cane...🤗
first time seeing this, as a looong time M fan...
i came upon this interview, after watching Wax having such fun with Sharon Stone, while interviewing her... I find this interview very revealing, often not in good ways for M, yet, very sincere ways... she was worried about aging way back then, and shows here an uncomfortable side with her own beauty and aging. All in all, a strong interview, I find it... but, here is an excerpt I found online, and you can see these things, when one pays attention without letting assumptions or opinions take over (source below) : She has branded her 1994 interview with the Material Girl for BBC show Ruby Wax Meets Madonna as her “most miserable showbiz experience”.
“I thought I was doing OK in showbusiness then they said, ‘Do you want to interview Madonna?’
“I thought we were going to bond but she hated me on sight.”
“We were setting up the cameras and she was saying, ‘No, no, no, I don’t want that camera, I want that camera.’ I got nervous and I was asking dumb questions and then she got up and left.”
Ruby, 59, who also famously put the singer’s underwear on her head during the interview, explains why she did it. “I needed to end the show with some comedy,” she explained on the BBC’s The Matt Lucas Awards.
www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/390903/Ruby-Wax-reveals-Madonna-hell
rare for an interview to get her sense of humor or make madonna laugh like that, i love it
Omg this was so much fun!
Madonna actually hated the interviewer ruby wax and walked out. I knew this when ruby wax had an interview with ushi.
This was Princess Diana’s last residence.
"You're gonna have a baby soon, I just know it"
Two years later!!
Please shut up and get a life!!!
Michael Conrad Um why should he shut up? Do you support killing babies?
Üdlauch Stmacshauchnÿ Get over yourself. Her body - HER fuckin choice.
And do y’all have reputable sources to back up these said ten abortions, pray tell?
Really don’t know how such a harmless comment started a heated discussion but here we are... only on the Internet
Ruby is an amazingly funny and clever interviewer…great interview! 🖤✨
Madonna’s control and germ issues truly showed here in this interview. 😬
Both come across very Natural & both are so funny in their own way.
I love how she's going through her bag with Madonna right there. No shame. LMAO!
It was all good until she shoved her coat in her face and started digging through her bag. That's rude to do to anyone, let alone a celebrity. I think madonna was 90% ok with the interview though. Think of it this way, ... I'm sure madonna has behaved way worse in certain situations not caught on camera. She's no saint. But yeah..... still a bit rude for a stranger interviewing her to do. Some good questions though.
Now I’m insecure about my chin after looking down on my phone to watch this.
This is probabably the first ,,What's in my bag ,, video before it even becoame a thing on TH-cam LOL!.
“All the phones are bugged in London” and it was true! Rupert bloody Murdoch.
Ruby was really hard on herself over this interview. Madonna seemed a bit snappy at times but shes been far worse than in this interview. The Oprah interview a few years later was much more frosty than this interview
To be fair This woman would make anyone uncomfortable she’s a bit harsh.
I wonder why ruby said it was a horrible interview. I thought it was kind of fun.
Madonna used to be so funny and fun.
Madonna walked out on this interview, though editing makes it look OK.
She walked out nicely
Wow. I've never seen someone disarm her like this. She is usually running them
i thought madonna was quite candid and revealing in moments
Ruby is very clever ! Love them both !!
I love Ruby Wax but I can never understand why she was upset with this interview madonna looks like she is really enjoying herself.
Madonna was just amazing in this interview but Ruby was a hack. I'm surprised M let her get away with being so obnoxious. That would never happen these days.
I love this interview !
I’ve seen her in person and she was flawless at Liquid in Miami she was with Chris pacciello and Naomi Campbell.She had strawberry colored hair.I was lost for words yet keeping my composure to not sweat her and ask her for an autograph to put the icing on the cake I was rolling on xtc.
If I saw Madonna at a club and I was on X god knows what I would do
This interview is awkward... But funny.
Ruby is the QUEEN of interviewing.
Ruby is wonderful. She is great at interviewing, but then I love everything she does.
I absolutely love Madonna!!
What the hell happened to the audio at 14:09 where it suddenly sounds like a chorus effect?
Did Madonna walk out?
She got off the bed at the end indicating she was going to change outfits, leaving Ruby in the room with the camera crew .. the implication being they intended to reconvene after the change to film another segment?
There also seem to be lapses in the footage. It goes into a fade a few times then back to the interview asthough they cut and resumed. - Ruby gave subjects final say over editing.. agreeing to cut anything they disliked out. Maybe Madonna paused recording for touch-ups or one of her entourage interjected?
Ruby usually spent a day with subjects. Going about town together or having some sort of impromptu whimsical jaunt after an initial q&a in a hotel..
The Sharon stone one was hilarious, Both going out together in disguise wearing fake beards and trench coats for a coffee in Manhattan!
It's a pity Madonna wasn't game!
Ruby was visibly shit scared at the beginning of Madonna. Madonna probably picked up on it and it probably made her feel a bit lousy and insecure... She went into control freak mode. It's really a good interview though and they managed to share a few cheeky genuine giggles together!
Ruby kicks herself for not being a yes woman doing softball questions.. . Madonna would've walked out after 5 mins in that scenario.
If this Madonna could only see herself now. She has more than a Shelly Winters thing going on…
Seeing this again in 2021 - must say, I was quite bored
Madonna was bubbly back when she was young now she gone so boring n dull in her interviews, don't know what happened..Maybe she grew to keep this serious star like persona
Holy shit I love this woman she reminds me of my old boss!!!
Way to go Ruby Wax, what a cool name....
This was so funny... Enjoyed 😇
What would this madonna think of the current madonna
Except for her music, I never did watch any of the Madonna interviews. But since her last massive concert in Brazil, I was curious to see who this woman really is. And I did watch half a dozen or so interviews. And my impressions about this pop queen did a nose dive. This is my personal opinion, but I think she is downright snobbish. In this interview Ruby puts Madonna in her place by saying to look at her when being spoken to. A very good observation and made Madonna climb down from her 'high chair'. I wish all the other interviewers did the same. This is prolly the best interview with Madonna that I've seen.
Madonna actually walked out of this interview and hated it because the questions was too revealing!
I love when Madonna says she never faked an orgasm. Another reason why she scares men hahahh
I love the interviewer! Who is she? And,also, I love how she doesn't allow Madonna boss her.
N A she is an American who is famous in England but not America , she produced the series Absolutely fabulous , in the nineties she was on tv all the time, she was edgy, my grandma thought she was vile, but I always loved her😉
UNBELIEVABLE!!
I j'dore bedtime stories and love this video.