Joe Bob Dead in Concert

Controversial drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs, whose real name is John Bloom, created the Briggs persona in a weekly column in the Dallas Times Herald starting 1982. Joe Bob's outrageous comments and national circulation quickly made him a cult hero. In Aptil, 1985, Joe Bob 's column was banned in Dallas and Bloom resigned from the newspaper a few days later. Here Joe Bob performs comedy routines "We Are the World" satire, "We Are the Weird," to "Drive-in Oath," "Two Sisters from Memphis," and others in front of a live audience. Joe Bob's own comments about this tape - "'Joe Bob Briggs Dead in Concert' is a live concert filmed in Dallas late in 1985. It was released on a small video label in Tulsa and went out of print by 1987. It's the bane of my existence...I think it was about the fourth or fifth time I had been up in front of a live audience. But yes, it does exist. Every once in a while someone will tell me they've seen it".