# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-irving-bloom
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:01:16.412Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-irving-bloom"
name: "John Irving Bloom"
slug: "john-irving-bloom"
description: "John Irving Bloom, 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 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."
tagline: "American film critic, writer, and actor (1953-)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joe_Bob_Briggs_(2018%2C_crop).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1953-01-27"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9100257069408741
  historical:           7.895842666666666
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  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "johnibloom"
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    handle:    "joebobbriggsofficial"
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  - platform:  "IMDB"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump