Medusa: Dare to Be Truthful was a mockumentary film starring comedienne Julie Brown as the title character, with actress Kathy Griffin and actor Donal Logue in supporting roles.

The film lampoons the legitimate documentary picture "Madonna: Truth or Dare," (known as "In Bed With Madonna" in all countires besides the United States.) In the original, pop superstar Madonna allowed cameras to follow her around for a no-holds-barred peek into her life during her "Blonde Ambition Tour." In this spoof, Brown plays Medusa, a controlling, hyper-sexual blonde bombshell who has allowed a documentary crew to follow her on her "Blonde Leading the Blonde Tour".

The film, about one hour long and originally produced as a Showtime television special, goes to great pains to recreate costumes, sets and situations that occurred in the original documentary.

Things in original VS spoof

  • ORIGINAL: Madonna visits the cemetery where her mother is buried while the song "Oh Father" plays; SPOOF: Medusa visits the cemetery where her dog "Boomer" is buried and eventually digs him up, quipping "I wonder what he looks like now?"

  • ORIGINAL: Kevin Costner visits Madonna backstage and calls her show "nice" to which she puts her finger in her mouth and gags; SPOOF: Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait visits Medusa backstage and calls her show "nice," and Medusa responds in kind, only he sees her and becomes violently enraged..."I coulda gone to Monster Trucks, you know!"

  • ORIGINAL: Madonna is rehearsing her lines in her Broadway debut "Speed the Plough"; SPOOF: Medusa goes over her lines as Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet", making masterbatory motions during the line "madly play with my forefathers joints!"

  • ORIGINAL: Madonna sings her hit song "Vogue"; Medusa performs her smash hit "Vague"

Quotes

  • "I went to the Paws and Claws cemetery to visit the grave of my dead dog Buster. My grandmother used to say 'When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.' But you can't make lemonade out of a dead dog no matter how hard you try!"

  • "I hear the crowd in the Puh-hillipines spent millions of dollars on my tickets so there was no way I could cancel. I mean, that's more than some people make in a whole year! They tell me a couple of people in the back row were consumed by molton lava; that's like a real complement!"

  • "Kelly LeBrock thinks she's great/She's just cold boogars on a paper plate/Why they're famous we don't know, but/Paula Abdul's gotta go/Ladys with no point of view, fellas who don't have a clue/Don't just stand there, let's get to it/Strike a pose, there's nothing to it/Vague, let your body move without thinking/Vague, let your IQ drop while you bop"