piece involving storytelling, comedy and music. The show was performed in more than 50 venues over the next two years, including Carolines on Broadway in New York and regular engagements at Wolfgang's and the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, as well as at convention centers, theaters, music clubs and other comedy clubs. In 2019, Briggs began performing a new one-man show, How Rednecks Saved Hollywood, at genre film festivals and revival movie houses. Other "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, Michael Findlay's Blood Sisters, Warlock Moon, Samurai Cop, I Spit on Your Grave, and several Ray Dennis Steckler films including The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies and Blood Shack. Bloom appeared as himself in the Jonathan Maberry novel Bad Moon Rising (2008). Joe Bob is one of several real-world horror celebrities who are in the fictional town of Pine Deep when monsters attack. Controversies In 1985, Briggs wrote a satirical column about the "We Are the World" video. The resulting controversy, which included accusations of racism towards Bloom, ended Bloom's position at the Dallas Times Herald. His syndicated column changed distributors. Personal life In May 2020, Bloom contracted COVID-19 but did not make his condition known to the public. Discussing the experience on the podcast Geek Tawk—hosted by his Last Drive-In co-host Diana Prince (Darcy the Mail Girl)—in July 2020, Bloom stated, "Many people have had [COVID-19] and most of them were much worse off than me. [...] I wish everybody thought it was a death sentence, because then everyone would wear the fucking mask and then we would get rid of it." Bloom was married to Joyce Karns from 1978 until they divorced a year later in 1979. He married Paula Leigh Bowen in 1988. Filmography Podcast appearances "Briggs" appeared on Ken Reid's TV Guidance Counselor podcast on June 16, 2016, as well as the podcasts Frightday on July 11, 2018, Astonishing Legends Podcast on December 9, 2018, and The Last Podcast on the Left on March 28, 2019. He also appeared on AEW wrestler Chris Jericho's podcast Talk is Jericho. Notes References Bibliography Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs (1984) with Jim Atkinson, Joe Bob Goes to the Drive-in (1987), A Guide to Western Civilization, or: My