Songstress Lady Gaga prompted many jaws to drop during the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night when she channeled her foul-mouthed, whisky-drinking, chain-smoking male alter-ago, Joe Calderone.

"She left me! She said it always starts out good and then the guys -- meaning me, I'm one of the guys -- we get crazy,” the Calderone character said in the opening monologue. “I did. I got crazy. But she's f---ing crazy too, right?"

During Gaga’s multiple appearances on stage throughout the night, she continued to find the need to reinforce that “Gaga wasn’t here tonight” and that “Calderone” “was accepting the award on her behalf.”

Always unexpected -- classic Gaga!!!