- Born
- Birth nameJohn Irving Bloom
- Nickname
- Joe Bob Briggs
- Height1.93 m
- John Bloom is an investigative reporter, essayist and actor who was born in Dallas, raised in Little Rock, Arkansas, and attended Vanderbilt University on a sports-writing scholarship. Bloom began his writing career in Texas, earning two National Magazine Award nominations for his work with Texas Monthly. He was later fired from the Dallas Times-Herald for writing (as "Joe Bob Briggs") a parody of the then-popular song, "We Are The World". Joe Bob Briggs began his television career on The Movie Channel, hosting Joe Bob's Drive-In Theater (1987) for nine years. During this time, it became TMC's highest-rated show, earning two ACE award nominations. He currently hosts TNT's Monstervision (1991) on Saturday nights, and is at work on an autobiographical screenplay.- IMDb mini biography by: Charter
- SpousePaula Bloom (divorced)
- Inducted into the Horror Host Hall of Fame in 2012, as his character Joe Bob Briggs.
- Attended Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee)
- Lives in Hoboken, NJ and New York City.
- Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 130, pp. 38-40. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
- Gave expert commentary for the DVD release of Oeil pour oeil (1978) (aka "I Spit on Your Grave").
- Many of the sexiest horror stars, for me, are the European women. They don't have the Barbie doll makeup. It's just raw sexuality.
- [preferring bad girl characters to victims] Like all red-blooded American boys, I like 'em nasty.
- [Why Jamie Lee Curtis was a boring scream queen] She wasn't really a sex symbol. She didn't have enough edge to be alluring. She has more of it now that she doesn't make horror films anymore.
- [traits of a B-movie scream queen] Oddly enough, classic beauty isn't one of them. Many [of them] are not really beautiful at all. They're young and they're in good shape, but you wouldn't necessarily notice them on the street. I think what shows on the screen is that they are: A) vulnerable, B) tough, and C) they love giving everything to the camera. You have to be a little bit in love with yourself, I think. Enormous breasts also help.
- [most scream queens being tiny women] Several of the scream queens are extremely petite. You don't notice it on camera. Monique Gabrielle is tiny. So when you photograph them in close-up, the upper-body proportions look enormous, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.
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