# Flame myself

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-myself/871>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 27, 1999, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-myself/871 "1999-04-27T23:58:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 1999, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-myself/871/21 "1999-05-15T05:35:00Z")

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Ok, here it goes: Who is John Bloom?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 1999, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/flame-myself/871/22 "1999-05-14T19:26:00Z")

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> Ok, here it goes: Who is John Bloom?

Hehe, guess you aren’t him if you have to ask 🙂

He portrays Joe Bob Briggs, bad movie expert, formerly host of The Movie Channel’s Drive in Theater, now host of TNT’s Monster-vision. He also does the “God Stuff” segments on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show (but as himself, John Bloom, not as Joe Bob Briggs).  
Anyway, seeing a Joe Bob posting in the moron movie thread just got me to thinking how cool it would be if there were real live celebs lurking among us 🙂 If having 2 basic cable gigs qualifies one as a celeb, that is 🙂

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