Cher Gets Cheeky With Beavis and Butt-head

Forget Frank and Bono.

The vocal teaming of the year may be Beavis and Butt-head with Cher.

Their performance on the old Sonny & Cher hit “I Got You Babe” is the highlight of “The Beavis and Butt-head Experience” album that is due in the stores Nov. 23 from Geffen Records.

The surprise isn’t that Cher would join the MTV dunderheads on the song (after all, she also records for Geffen), but that she was game enough to engage in banter that makes fun of her own image. She gets our vote for Good Sport of the Year trophy.

In their typical leering fashion, Beavis and Butt-head start off the track by talking about their dream girl:

“We need a chick that’s got tattoos on her butt,” Butt-head says.

“Yeah, yeah, huh-huh, we need one of those chicks, heh heh heh,” continues Beavis, “. . . a chick who’s older, who’s like, heh, done it a lot of times.”

“We need a chick who used to be married to some dork and so now she’s like all wild and stuff, huh, huh, huh.”

After the boys sing the song with Cher, they talk to her.

“Didn’t you used to be married to that Bah-no dude (from U2)?” Butt-head asks her.

“ Bo -no!” she responds. “Sonny Bono! . . . He was the mayor of Palm Springs.”

“He’s a wuss !”

“Yeah, well . . . yeah. Well kinda, yeah.”

Geffen Records executive Tony Berg, who put the project together with B&B; creator Mike Judge, says that the exchange was ad-libbed in one take by Cher and Judge, who does both of his characters’ voices.

“She was not just a willing participant, but also she got into the self-deprecation of it and how funny it was,” Berg says.

Cher, who was not available for comment, has even allowed her image to be used in print ads for the song, which will be the first single from the album. The ads recycle old publicity shots that show Cher from the back with a skimpy outfit that reveals the notorious rose tattoo on her derriere.

In the new version, the tattoo has been altered to (don’t cringe) the faces of Beavis and Butt-head.

The album also features skits with Anthrax and Run-DMC, as well as new music by Nirvana, Aerosmith and Primus.

And what does Sonny think about being the, er, butt of the joke?

“I’ve got very thick skin so I would probably lose about one second of sleep over the whole deal,” says Bono, who notes that neither he nor his two young children are fans of the “Beavis and Butt-head” show. “But in a way I’m sad to see Cher reduce herself to that kind of humor, because she’s a brilliant talent and I’d rather see her use it in other forms.”

But Bono, who will appear on the NBC-TV special “A ‘70s Celebration: The Beat Is Back” airing Tuesday and says that he’s preparing to make a run for a state political office, acknowledged that he’s been called much worse by Cher in the past.