Just Say Julie

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Just Say Julie was a combination comedy/music video show starring and created by comedienne and singer Julie Brown. It aired from 1989 to 1992. Though Brown was considered an MTV VJ, her only function in playing videos came through her show. The show was extremely popular because it went against MTV's image of playing patsy to popular artists of questionable talent. Brown, as a satirical valley-girl version of herself, would often introduce or speak after a video with negative, scathing comments about the artist. (A notable example: after playing a Sheena Easton video, Brown quipped that "maybe we should all sleep with Prince so he'll write songs for us." Easton was reputedly outraged.) A popular target was Madonna; Brown insinuated that the young boy in her Cherish video was the love child of Madonna and a dolphin. Brown would go on to do a scathing mockumentary of Madonna called Medusa: Dare to be Truthful.

Each episode would also feature a "plot" that was used to string together the videos. In one episode, Julie sells her soul to the devil. In another, her blonde supermodel thinks too hard and accidentally blows her brain out of her ear and onto the floor.

At times Brown was 'jealous' of having her show on the same network that featured another person with the same name as hers and would refer to herself or vice versa as "Evil Julie Brown". That 'rivalry' would result in an episode in which the two would meet face to face.

The show served to make way for the persona Brown became known for: an egocentric, over-the-top, kooky valley girl with an attitude. She would take this character into her film Earth Girls Are Easy, which could be said to be Brown's crowning achievement in mocking the valley girl persona.