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Who knew Lady Gaga had a little Andrew Dice Clay in her?

Every year we expect the pop superstar to lay it on the line with her spectacular and odd outfits. But at last night’s MTV Video Music Awards, she fully committed to the guise of her lewd and crude male alter ego Jo Calderone.

Backstage, Calderone explained to Rolling Stone why he stepped into Gaga’s shoes for the evening. ”Gaga said ‘Fuck you,’ she said, ‘If you really love me you’ll go instead of me and get in that spotlight.’ So I did.”

At the VMAs Gaga-as-Calderone performed the new single “Yoü and I” to kick off the awards show. But she also took time out to present the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award to Britney Spears.

And Calderone had some choice words for Spears. ”She’s fucking hot, Britney. Gaga’s my girl, but Britney’s fucking Britney Spears. Didn’t you jerk off to Britney when you were a kid?”

—Colin Jones