Jay Mohr
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John Irving Bloom (born January 27, 1953), known by the stage name Joe Bob Briggs, is an American syndicated film critic, writer, actor, comic performer, and horror host. 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.
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John Irving Bloom (born January 27, 1953), known by the stage name Joe Bob Briggs, is an American syndicated film critic, writer, actor, comic performer, and horror host. 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, and in 2023 was inducted into the Rondo Hatton Awards’ Monster Kid Hall of Fame.
15 Quotes by Joe Bob Briggs
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In some European theaters, it’s still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.
Joe Bob BriggsAmerican film critic, writer, and actor
- 2.
I AM a male chauvinist. Who’s been saying otherwise?
Joe Bob BriggsAmerican film critic, writer, and actor
- 3.
As I’ve said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.
Joe Bob BriggsAmerican film critic, writer, and actor
- 4.
In other words, New York has gone all suburban and bourgeois on us.
Joe Bob BriggsAmerican film critic, writer, and actor
- 5.
The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.
Joe Bob BriggsAmerican film critic, writer, and actor
- 6.
Apparently we love our own cell phones but we hate everyone else’s.
Joe Bob BriggsAmerican film critic, writer, and actor
- 7.
There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.
Joe Bob BriggsAmerican film critic, writer, and actor
- 8.
A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.
Joe Bob BriggsAmerican film critic, writer, and actor
- 9.
Almost every venerable tradition at a men’s club starts out as a joke.
Joe Bob BriggsAmerican film critic, writer, and actor
- 10.
The Italians always made good wine, but you had the impression they were friendly guys in straw hats running family vineyards with slaves or something so that the vino was never more than ten bucks a bottle.
Joe Bob BriggsAmerican film critic, writer, and actor
- 11.
Faith is like a kernel of wheat.
Joe Bob BriggsAmerican film critic, writer, and actor
- 12.
If you hate what you’re seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it “romance and adventure.”
Joe Bob BriggsAmerican film critic, writer, and actor
- 13.
Discourse is fleeting, but junk mail is forever.
Joe Bob BriggsAmerican film critic, writer, and actor
- 14.
Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.
Joe Bob BriggsAmerican film critic, writer, and actor
- 15.
It’s not a crime to get drunk.
Joe Bob BriggsAmerican film critic, writer, and actor