Amy Schumer to open for Madonna on Rebel Heart tour in New York

Madonna may have made her spoof-like stand-up comedy debut in April, on the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Kimmel, but she could be leaving the jokes to a professional during the New York leg of her Rebel Heart tour in September.

Amy Schumer, of Comedy Central sketch show Inside Amy Schumer, has announced on Twitter that she is due to open for Madonna, on 16 September and 17 September at Madison Square Garden, and on 19 September at Brooklyn’s Barclays Centre.

“Guess who auditioned for @Madonna and got the part?” she wrote, on 18 June. “See you in NYC on Sept 16, 17 and 19.” Schumer posted the tweet with a snippet of what looks like a home video, in which she sings along to Madonna’s Like A Virgin as a young girl.

Schumer was recently awarded a Peabody award for Inside Amy Schumer in May, and stars in Judd Apatow film Trainwreck, due out in the US and Australia in July and in August in the UK.

Madonna released the video for single [expletive] I’m Madonna exclusively on Tidal on 17 June, and elsewhere on 18 June. Her North American Rebel Heart tour begins in Montreal on September 9 and runs until January 2016, with a diversion in November and December for a stretch of UK and European arena dates.