Does Madonna have the power to turn you gay? Fortune Feimster thinks so!
Netflix has released a new stand-up special from the lesbian comic every two years, each even better than the last. It’s basically a tradition at this point!Her latest, Fortune Feimster: Crushing It, just hit the streamer earlier this week (and is already ranked among its Top 10 TV titles in the U.S.), which largely details her European honeymoon with wife Jacquelyn “Jax” Smith, a kindergarten teacher she married in 2020.Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Obviously, marrying a successful comic like Feimster has its perks—her career means she gets to attend a lot of cool events and might a lot of amazing people.
But, apparently, Jax doesn’t care much about celebrity, and frequently doesn’t recognize the A-listers she gets introduced to.But there’s one star she’s been obsessed with for years and has been dying to meet: “She only cares about Madonna,” Feimster shares.
Relatable!While guesting on The Tonight Show this week in support of Crushing It, the comic told host Jimmy Fallon the adorable, hysterical tale of how she finally—finally!—got to introduce her wife to the Queen of Pop.40 years ago today, on November 12, 1984, Madonna’s ‘Like a Virgin’ album was released.“They’re both from Michigan, went to the same high school a few years apart,” Feimster explains of the kinship Jax feels with the icon. “She credits Madonna with her sexual awakening of liking girls to begin with!
It was her life’s mission to meet Madonna, but that is not an easy person to meet. She’s very famous.”But Feimster, dutiful partner that she is, has tried her darnedest to make Jax’s dream come true over the past 10 years they’ve known each other.A post shared by Jax (@juxtaposedjax)“I was coming up short.
