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Joe Bob Briggs
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'''Joe Bob Briggs''' is a
pseudonym and persona of '''John Irving Bloom''' (born
January 27,
1953 in
Dallas, Texas Dallas,
Texas), a
print syndication syndicated film criticism film critic, writer and
actor. Bloom was raised in
Little Rock, Arkansas Little Rock,
Arkansas, and attended
Vanderbilt University on a sports-writing scholarship. He began his writing career at ''
Texas Monthly''.
Joe Bob is a stereotypical redneck (as evidenced by the personal backstory that comprises much of his reviews) with an avowed love of the drive-in theatre. His original reviews consisted entirely of drive-in reviews.
Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive In Later, after a personal battle with his own convictions, he also started reviewing videos released on
VHS.
Bloom specializes in humorous but appreciative reviews of
b-movies and
cult films, which he calls ''
drive-in movies''. His columns characteristically include colorful tales of women-troubles and high-spirited brushes with the law, tales which inevitably conclude with him and a female friend catching a movie at a local drive-in. The review end with a brief summary of the "high points" of the movie in question, including the types of action (represented by nouns naming objects used in fight scenes suffixed with ''-
fu''), the number of
breasts bared, and, for gory movies, a "vomit meter". A typical such concluding paragraph would be, "No dead bodies. One hundred seventeen breasts.
Sexual intercourse Multiple aardvarking. Lap dancing. Cage dancing. Convenience-store dancing. Blindfold aardvarking. Blind-MAN aardvarking. Lesbo Fu. Pool cue-fu. Drive-In Academy Award nominations for Tane McClure. Joe Bob says check it out."
He has also appeared on
television as a host of
Turner Network Television TNT's ''MonsterVision''
horror movie marathons. Bloom was president of the
Trinity Foundation (Dallas) Trinity Foundation of Dallas, Texas, a non-denominational, non-profit public foundation that serves as a religious
watchdog group and publishes ''
The Door (satirical Christian magazine) The Door'', a
Christianity Christian satire magazine, of which Bloom was a regular columnist and investigative reporter. The most famous of products of ''The Door'' staff was a parody videotape of
televangelist Robert Tilton, with flatulence dubbed in whenever Tilton grimaced. Some of the efforts of Bloom's religious watchdog reporting and satire were featured in a regular segment in the first two seasons of ''
The Daily Show''. In addition, some of his writing can be seen in ''Choice: The Best of
Reason (magazine) Reason'', a compilation of the
libertarian magazine's work over the past four decades.
His movie reviews are collected in the now out-of-print books ''
Joe Bob Goes to the Drive In'' and ''
Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive In''. His most recent books, ''Profoundly Erotic: Sexy Movies that Changed History'' and ''Profoundly Disturbing: Shocking Movies that Changed History'', contains all-new material. Recently, Briggs has contributed
Audio commentary (DVD) audio commentaries to DVDs released by Media Blasters and Elite Entertainment including ''Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter'', ''The Double-D Avenger'', ''Blood Sisters'', ''Warlock Moon'', ''Samurai Cop'', and several
Ray Dennis Steckler films including ''
The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies'' and ''Blood Shack''.{{wikiquote}}
Filmography
* (2004) ''
All That You Love Will Be Carried Away''
* (1999) ''The Storytellers''
* (1997) ''
Face/Off''
* (1995) ''
Casino (movie)''
* (1994) ''
The Stand''
* (1989) ''
Great Balls of Fire!''
* (1986) ''
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2'' (scenes deleted)
External links
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The Joe Bob Report
* {{imdb name|id=0089185|name=Joe Bob Briggs}}
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ACME Joe Bob Briggs
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Kittenpants.org interview
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