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Joe Bob Briggs is a pseudonym and persona of John Irving Bloom (born January 27, 1953 in Dallas, Texas), a syndicated film critic, writer and actor. Bloom was raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, and attended Vanderbilt University on a sports-writing scholarship. He began his writing career at Texas Monthly.

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. 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 TNT's MonsterVision horror movie marathons. Bloom was president of the Trinity Foundation of Dallas, Texas, a non-denominational, non-profit public foundation that serves as a religious watchdog group and publishes The Door, a 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, 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 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.

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)

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