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Joe Bob Briggs

John Irving Bloom (born January 27, 1953), known by the stage name Joe Bob Briggs, is an American syndicated film critic, writer, actor, and comic performer. He is known for having hosted Joe Bob’s Drive-in Theater on The Movie Channel from 1986 to 1996, the TNT television series MonsterVision from 1996 to 2000, and The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs on Shudder beginning in 2018. In 2019, he was named the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards’ Monster Kid of the Year.[1]

Joe Bob Briggs

Born

Nationality

Education

Occupation(s)

Website

Briggs in 2018

John Irving Bloom January 27, 1953 (age70) Dallas, Texas, U.S.

American

Vanderbilt University

Film critic, writer, actor

joebobbriggs.com

Early yearsEdit

John Irving Bloom was born January 27, 1953, in Dallas, Texas, the son of Thelma Louise (née Berry) and Rudolph Lewis Bloom.[2]

Bloom was raised in Little Rock, Arkansas,[3] and by age 13 was a sportswriter at what was then the Arkansas Democrat.[4] He won a Fred Russell-Grantland Rice Sportswriting Scholarship to Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee, where he majored in English and wrote for the student newspaper, The Vanderbilt Hustler. After graduating in 1975.[4] he became a reporter for Dallas Times Herald and later wrote for Texas Monthly magazine.[3] Taking a leave of absence from the newspaper in order to co-write (with Jim Atkinson) his many books, the true crime book Evidence of Love (later adapted as the TV-movie A Killing in a Small Town), he supported himself by writing movie reviews for the paper. There he created the humorous persona of “Joe Bob Briggs” to review exploitation films and other genre movies.[3]

PersonaEdit

Bloom’s acting persona as “Briggs” is that of an unapologetic redneck Texan with an avowed love of the drive-in theaters. He specializes in humorous but appreciative reviews of B-movies and cult films, which he calls “drive-in movies” (as distinguished from “indoor bullstuff”). In addition to his usual parody of urbane, high-brow movie criticism, his columns characteristically include colorful tales of woman troubles and high-spirited brushes with the law, which inevitably conclude with his rush to catch a movie at a local drive-in, usually with female companionship. “Briggs” revealed in an interview that he intended the character to have an ambiguous sounding name and initially thought of calling himself “Bubba Rodriguez”, but was told that the name Rodriguez would be perceived as racist and decided to go with: “The whitest name I could come up with.”[5]

The reviews typically end with a brief rating of the movie in question’s “high points”, including the types of action (represented by nouns naming objects used in fight scenes suffixed with “-Fu”), the number of bodies, number of female breasts bared, the notional number of total pints of blood spilled, and for appropriately untoward movies, a “vomit meter”.[citation needed]

A typical review summary might read:

“No dead bodies. One hundred seventeen breasts. Multiple aardvarking.[a] Lap dancing. Cage dancing. Convenience-store dancing. Blindfold aardvarking. Blind-MAN aardvarking. Lesbo Fu. Pool cue-Fu. Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Tané McClure. Joe Bob says check it out.”[citation needed]

Originally, Bloom’s film reviews as “Briggs” were limited to pictures shown at local drive-ins. Later, after a tongue-in-cheek “battle” with his own convictions in Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive In, he also began reviewing films released on VHS and DVD.[citation needed]

Reaction to redevelopment of 42nd StreetEdit

During the early 1980s, when New York City was in the planning stages of redeveloping its run-down 42nd Street, Times Square area, which included closing many grindhouses showing B-movies on double and triple bills around the clock, as well as many porn theaters, Briggs encouraged a “postcard-Fu” campaign encouraging genre-film fans to write to city officials and pressure them into saving “the one place in New York City you could see a decent drive-in movie”.[8]

TelevisionEdit

In 1986, as a result of the stage show, “Briggs” was asked to be a guest host on Drive-in Theater, a late-night B-movie show on The Movie Channel (TMC). This led to his hosting Joe Bob’s Drive-in Theater, which ran from 1986 to 1996,[9] It was twice nominated for the industry’s CableACE Award.[10] Afterward the show ended, he hosted the TNT network’s similar MonsterVision for four years through July 2000.[10]

In the late 1990s, “Briggs” spent two seasons as a commentator on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show (under his given name, John Bloom), with a recurring segment called God Stuff.[11] He appears in Frank Henenlotter’s documentary Herschell Gordon Lewis – Godfather of Gore.[12]

In 2018, the horror-themed subscription video on demand service Shudder, owned and operated by AMC, signed Briggs for a new series, The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs, which premiered as a 13-film marathon on July 13, 2018.[13] During the premiere, Shudder’s servers crashed as a result of a large number of subscribers attempting to access the show.[14] Shudder streamed two shorter marathons on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day 2018[15] Beginning in March 2020, the show returned to Briggs’ old double-feature format. A second season consisting of 10 films premiered April 24, 2020. Season 3 began April 16, 2021.[16]

“Briggs” was also a commentator for a Fox TV news magazine for two seasons.[citation needed] He also appeared in episodes of the Fox sitcom Married… with Children in season 8 and 9 as Billy Ray Wetnap, co-owner of Pest Boys Pest Control.[17][18] He also wrote and performed in specials for Fox and Showtime,[citation needed] and collaborated with comedy writer Norman Steinberg on an unproduced NBC sitcom.[citation needed]

Magazine and newspaper writingEdit

“Briggs” has written for Newsweek,[19] National Lampoon,[19] Rolling Stone,[20] Playboy,[20] The Village Voice,[20] and National Review,[21]

Bloom’s two syndicated newspaper columns as “Briggs”, “Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-in” and “Joe Bob’s America”, were picked up by The New York Times Syndicate in the 1990s.[citation needed] For one year he wrote a humorous sex advice column in Penthouse.[citation needed] In 2000, he started writing the “Drive-in” column again, this time for United Press International,[22] along with a second column, “The Vegas Guy”, which chronicles Briggs’ weekly forays into the casinos of America.[23]

“Briggs” was president of the Trinity Foundation of Dallas, a non-denominational, non-profit public foundation that serves as a religious watchdog group and publishes The Door, a Christian satire magazine, for which “Briggs” was a regular columnist.[24][25]

BooksEdit

Under his given name, John Bloom, he co-wrote (with Jim Atkinson) the nonfiction book Evidence of Love: The Candy Montgomery Story (1984). The book recounts the 1980 Wylie, Texas murder case in which Montgomery killed her ex-lover’s wife, Betty Gore, by striking her 41 times with an axe and whose highly publicized trial ended in an unexpected acquittal.[26][27] The book was adapted into the CBS TV-movie A Killing in a Small Town (1990), starring Barbara Hershey, and is scheduled to be adapted as an HBO Max miniseries, Love and Death.[28]

As “Joe Bob Briggs”, Bloom has published five books of satire—Joe Bob Goes to the Drive In, A Guide to Western Civilization, or My Story, Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive In, The Cosmic Wisdom of Joe Bob Briggs, and Iron Joe Bob, his homage to the men’s movement and the nonfiction books Profoundly Disturbing: Shocking Movies That Changed History[29] and Profoundly Erotic: Sexy Movies that Changed History.[30]

In 2016, again under his given name, Bloom wrote the nonfiction book Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story in which he traces the conception, development, and launching of the Iridium satellite constellation and the race to save it from destruction.[31]

One-man showsEdit

In July 1985, Bloom’s one-man show An Evening with Joe Bob Briggs debuted in Cleveland, Ohio. Later re-titled Joe Bob Dead in Concert for home release, the show evolved into a theatrical piece involving storytelling, comedy and music. The show was performed in more than 50 venues over the next two years, including Carolines on Broadway in New York and regular engagements at Wolfgang’s and the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, as well as at convention centers, theaters, music clubs and other comedy clubs. In 2019, Briggs began performing a new one-man show, How Rednecks Saved Hollywood, at genre film festivals and revival movie houses.[32][33]

OtherEdit

“Briggs” has contributed audio commentaries to DVDs released by Media Blasters and Elite Entertainment including Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, The Double-D Avenger, Michael Findlay’s Blood Sisters, Warlock Moon, Samurai Cop, I Spit on Your Grave, and several Ray Dennis Steckler films including The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies and Blood Shack.

Bloom appeared as himself in the Jonathan Maberry novel Bad Moon Rising (2008). Joe Bob is one of several real-world horror celebrities who are in the fictional town of Pine Deep when monsters attack.[34][35]

ControversiesEdit

In 1985, Briggs wrote a satirical column about the “We Are the World” video. The resulting controversy, which included accusations of racism towards Bloom,[36] ended Bloom’s position at the Dallas Times Herald. His syndicated column changed distributors.[37][38][39]

In May 2020, Briggs received backlash for writing articles published in the controversial Taki’s Magazine in which he criticized the lengthiness of the LGBTQ initialism. He also lamented what he saw as stifling the free speech of White Pride groups in the wake of the Charlottesville, Virginia, White Nationalist rally.[40][41]

Personal lifeEdit

In May 2020, Bloom contracted COVID-19 but did not make his condition known to the public.[41] Discussing the experience on the podcast Geek Tawk—hosted by his Last Drive-In co-host Diana Prince (Darcy the Mail Girl)—in July 2020, Bloom stated, “Many people have had [COVID-19] and most of them were much worse off than me. […] I wish everybody thought it was a death sentence, because then everyone would wear the fucking mask and then we would get rid of it.”[41][42]

Bloom was married to Joyce Karns from 1978 until they divorced a year later in 1979. He married Paula Leigh Bowen in 1988.[2]

FilmographyEdit

FilmYear
Title
Role
NotesTelevisionYear
Title
Role
Notes

1986	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2	Gonzo Moviegoer	Scenes deleted[43]
1989	Great Balls of Fire!	Dewey “Daddy-O” Phillips
1990	Hollywood Boulevard II	Himself
	A Killing in a Small Town	Writer	Book “Evidence of Love”
1992	The Chiller Theatre Expo Video Vol. 1	Himself	Documentary film
1995	Casino	Don Ward – Slot Manager
	After Sunset: The Life & Times of the Drive-In Theater	Himself	Documentary film
1997	Face/Off	Shock Technician
1999	The Storytellers	Scrappy the Janitor
2002	The Many Lives of Jason Voorhees	Himself	Documentary film short
2004	All That You Love Will Be Carried Away	Alfie Zimmer
	Drive-in Movie Memories	Himself	Documentary film
	Chainsaw Redux: Making a Massacre	Himself	Documentary film
2005	The Perfect Scary Movie	Himself	Documentary film
	Horror Business	Himself	Documentary film
2006	Evil Ever After	Marvin	Direct-to-DVD release
	Inspector Mom	Writer	TV movie
	American Scary	Himself	Documentary film
	Texas Frightmare Weekend 2006	Himself	Documentary film
2007	Ghosts of Goldfield	Clancy	Direct-to-DVD release
	Rapturious	Doctor
	Wretched	Eric
	One by One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of the Evil Dead	Himself	Documentary film
2010	Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore	Himself	Documentary film
2012	The Sleeper	Doctor Briggs	“Special Guest”
2012	Foodfight!	Additional Voices
2014	The Nail Gun Massacre: Texas Frightmare Weekend	Himself	Documentary film short
2016	The Ghosts of Johnson Woods	Warren
	VHS Massacre	Himself	Documentary film
	In Defense of Henry	Himself	Documentary film short
2017	Its Exactly What You Think It Is! An Appreciation of ‘Pieces	Himself	Documentary film short
	Roar: The Most Dangerous Movie Ever Made	Himself	Documentary film
2018	Poetry Slammed	Warren
	Survival of the Film Freaks	Himself	Documentary film
	Jim Dandy to the Rescue: A Film by Joey Skidmore	Himself	Documentary film
	B-Documentary Part Two	Himself	Documentary film
2019	In Search of Darkness	Himself	Documentary film
	Scare Package	Himself	“Horror Hypothesis” segment
2020	Hogzilla	Andy McGraw	Release originally planned for 2007
	Joe Bob’s Haunted Drive-in	Himself
	VHS Massacre Too	Himself	Documentary film
	In Search of Darkness: Part II	Himself	Documentary film
	Rondo and Bob	Himself	Documentary film
TBA	Werewolf Santa	Himself	[44]
TBA	Cryptids	Major Harlan Dean	[45][46]
1980	Hello, Larry	Big Guy	1 episode
1986-1996	Joe Bob’s Drive-in Theater	Himself	527+ episodes
1986	Ed Busch Show	Himself	2nd episode – recorded live at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas
1987	KDAF 33 Friday Movies	Himself	10 episodes
1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	Himself	1 episode
1993-1994	Front Page	Himself
	Married… with Children	Billy Ray Wetnap	2 episodes
1994	The Stand	Deputy Joe-Bob Brentwood	Miniseries
1996-2000	MonsterVision	Himself	207+ episodes
2000-2003	The Daily Show	Contributor ‘God Stuff’
2004	Super Secret Movie Rules	Himself	“Slashers” episode
2018	Cinemassacre Interviews	Himself	1 episode
	Without Your Head	Himself	1 episode
2018–present	The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob Briggs	Himself	3 seasons, 8 specials
2022	The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula: Titans	Himself, guest judge	Episode 8

Podcast appearancesEdit

“Briggs” appeared on Ken Reid’s TV Guidance Counselor podcast on June 16, 2016,[47] as well as the podcasts Frightday on July 11, 2018,[48] Astonishing Legends Podcast on December 9, 2018,[49] and The Last Podcast on the Left on March 28, 2019.[50]
He also appeared on AEW wrestler Chris Jericho’s podcast Talk is Jericho.

NotesEdit

1. ^ “Aardvarking” is one of many euphemisms Briggs uses in reference to sexual intercourse.[6][7]

ReferencesEdit

1. ^ Colton, David (April 6, 2020). “Here Are the Winners of the (Gasp!) 18th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards”. RondoAward.com.
2. ^ a b “Joe Bob Briggs Biography (1953-)”. www.filmreference.com.
3. ^ a b c Elias, Justine (August 1, 1999). “Down-Home Boy Gives Hollywood’s Worst His Best (and Silliest) Shot”. New York Times. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
4. ^ a b “Five alumni selected for 2020 Student Media Hall of Fame class”. Vanderbilt University. December 11, 2020.
5. ^ “Joe Bob Briggs Interview”. VHS Massacre. January 14, 2014. Archived from the original on December 22, 2021. Retrieved January 14, 2014 – via YouTube.
6. ^ “Aardvarking List”. Archived from the original on March 2, 2008.
7. ^ “Joe Bob’s Advice to the Hopeless – “Dear Joe Bob, Why does the term “aardvarking” mean sexual intercourse…””. Joebobbriggs.com. 1994. Archived from the original on January 10, 2008.
8. ^ Bianco, Anthony (2004). Ghosts of 42nd Street: A History of America’s Most Infamous Block. New York: HarperCollins. p.230. ISBN 0-688-17089-7.
9. ^ Vasquez Jr., Felix (April 15, 2022). “‘Joe Bob’s Drive-In Theater’ Was Our Original Introduction to Joe Bob Briggs [TV Terrors]”. Bloody Disgusting.
10. ^ a b Reesman, Bryan (December 19, 2018). “Joe Bob Briggs: Thrivin’ with the Drive-In”. The Aquarian.
11. ^ Roberts, Andrew (August 8, 2015). “‘The Daily Show’ Contributors That Didn’t Make It to Jon Stewart’s Final Show”. Uproxx.
12. ^ Barton, Steve (October 18, 2012). “The Ghost Trap Gets Sprung on DVD in January”. Dread Central. Retrieved July 6, 2019.
13. ^ Squires, John (June 25, 2018). “[Trailer] 24-Hour Marathon “The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs” Coming to Shudder in July”. Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
14. ^ Collis, Clark (March 25, 2019). “How movie critic Joe Bob Briggs’ new show united horror fans — and broke the internet”. Entertainment Weekly.
15. ^ @shudder (July 20, 2018). “Due to overwhelming demand, we’re bringing @joebobbriggsofficial back later this year! Stay tuned for details – the drive in will never die!”. Retrieved July 31, 2018 – via Instagram.
16. ^ Briggs, Joe Bob (February 23, 2021). “Joe Bob Briggs on Twitter”. Retrieved March 7, 2021 – via Twitter.
17. ^ “Married… with Children: ‘Scared Single'”. Apple TV.
18. ^ “Married… with Children: Shoeway to Heaven'”. Apple TV.
19. ^ a b Korosec, Thomas (March 1, 1991). “A Wiser Side of Joe Bob”. Fort Worth Star-Telegram – via Orlando Sentinel.
20. ^ a b c Whitworth, Spencer (April 23, 2022). “Joe Bob Briggs Proves That Horror Hosts Aren’t Dead Yet”. Collider.
21. ^ “Joe Bob Briggs”. National Review.
22. ^ Briggs, Joe Bob (December 27, 2000). “Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-In”. United Press International.
23. ^ Briggs, Joe Bob (November 14, 2000). “The Vegas Guy”. United Press International.
24. ^ Gallagher, Danny (December 14, 2017). “Drive-in Film Guru Joe Bob Briggs Returns to His Dallas Homeland Next Month”. Dallas Observer. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
25. ^ McDonnell, Brandy (October 30, 2019). “‘Drive-in movie critic’ Joe Bob Briggs bringing ‘How Rednecks Saved Hollywood’ one-man show to OKC”. The Oklahoman. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
26. ^ Weiss, Jeffrey (June 11, 2020). “Some in Wylie don’t know of 1980 ax slaying; others can’t forget”. The Dallas Morning News. Archived from the original on June 15, 2020. Retrieved August 2, 2011 – via Denton Record-Chronicle.
27. ^ Krajicek, David. “Murder By the Book: Candy and Betty”. TruTV.com. Archived from the original on March 22, 2010. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
28. ^ “HBO Max Orders ‘Love and Death’ TV Series Inspired by Texas Monthly Articles”. Texas Monthly. May 3, 2021. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
29. ^ “Profoundly Disturbing: The Shocking Movies That Changed History“. Publishers Weekly.
30. ^ “Profoundly Erotic: Sexy Movies that Changed History“. WorldCat.
31. ^ Athitakis, Mark (June 17, 2016). “‘Eccentric Orbits’ chronicles the stunning failure (and improbable revival) of the Iridium satellite phone”. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
32. ^ “Gigs”. Joe Bob Briggs.
33. ^ “Joe Bob Briggs hits the road for How Rednecks Saved Hollywood tour”. March 11, 2019.
34. ^ “BC Books Interviews Author Jonathan Maberry”. Archived from the original on November 23, 2011.
35. ^ Maberry, Jonathan. “Bad Moon Rising”. Pinnacle Press, 2005.
36. ^ “Charges of Racism Cause Texas Paper to Cancel Column”. The New York Times. April 18, 1985. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
37. ^ Fowler, Jimmy (December 17, 1998). “Joe Bob in Bloom”. Dallas Observer. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
38. ^ Trillin, Calvin (December 15, 1986). “The Life and Times of Joe Bob Briggs, So Far”. The New Yorker. Retrieved April 27, 2009.
39. ^ Goodman, Matt (January 25, 2018). “EarBurner: Joe Bob Briggs, né John Bloom, Gets Serious. Sort Of”. D Magazine. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
40. ^ Baculi, Spencer (May 17, 2020). “Legendary Horror Host Joe Bob Briggs Accused of Homophobia and Racism Over Criticism of LGBT Acronym and Deplatforming Attempts”. Bounding Into Comics. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
41. ^ a b c Hallock, Jeremy (July 29, 2020). “Joe Bob Briggs reveals he had COVID-19. Here’s why he didn’t tell anyone”. The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
42. ^ Prince, Diana (July 23, 2020). “Season 2 Shenanigans w Mr. JB”. SoundCloud (Podcast). Geek Tawk. Retrieved December 3, 2021.
43. ^ Armstrong, Kent Byron (2003). Slasher Films: An International Filmography, 1960 Through 2001. McFarland & Company. pp. 319–320. ISBN 0-7864-1462-6.
44. ^ Unsworth, Martin (September 23, 2020). “New Werewolf Movie FROSTBITE is in Production”. Starburst. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
45. ^ Seaman, Justin M. “Cryptids-Feature Length Creature Horror Anthology”. Indiegogo. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
46. ^ Gingold, Michael (July 27, 2020). “Exclusive Poster, Comments: Joe Bob Briggs Stars in “Cryptids””. Rue Morgue. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
47. ^ Reid, Ken (June 16, 2016). “TV Guidance Counselor Episode 156: Joe Bob Briggs, Frank Conniff and Trace Beaulieu”. Apple Podcasts. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
48. ^ “A Conversation with…Joe Bob Briggs”. Frightday. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
49. ^ “Ep 127: Hosting Horror with Joe Bob Briggs”. Astonishing Legends. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
50. ^ “Side Stories: Joe Bob Briggs”. The Last Podcast on the Left. Retrieved March 28, 2019.

BibliographyEdit

• Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs (1984) with Jim Atkinson, ISBN 1-5040-4952-7
• Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-in (1987), ISBN 0-385-29442-5
• A Guide to Western Civilization, or: My Story (1988), ISBN 0-385-29671-1
• Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive-in (1990), ISBN 0-385-29770-X
• The Cosmic Wisdom of Joe Bob Briggs (1990), ISBN 0-394-58890-8
• Iron Joe Bob (1992), ISBN 0-87113-488-8
• Profoundly Disturbing: Shocking Movies that Changed History! (2003), ISBN 0-7893-0844-4
• Profoundly Erotic: Sexy Movies that Changed History (2005), ISBN 0-7893-1314-6
• Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story (2016), ISBN 0-8021-2168-3

External linksEdit

• Official website
• Joe Bob Briggs at IMDb
• ACME Joe Bob Briggs
• Interview with Kittenpants.org
• Interview at The Onion AV Club