Born of humble beginnings, Madame encountered puppeteer Wayland Flowers on a bus ride in New York in the mid-sixties. Immediately smitten with Madame’s beauty and bawdy sense of humor, Flowers recognized her untapped talent and presented the idea of the two of them working together as a comedy team. She accepted the challenge on the condition that she got all the laughs and first choice on gowns. Madame recalls the first few gigs as being tough. “But honey, it wasn’t long before he knew just what strings to pull and we were bringing down the house!” The two were on the road, performing in honky-tonks, hole-in-the wall comedy clubs and the occasional bath house. “It was the free love decade, but I always demanded tips.” It wasn’t long before they traveled overseas and found that club-goers from London to Bangkok enjoyed their double-entendre comedy as much as the fans back home.