Legendary Horror Host Joe Bob Briggs Accused of Homophobia & Racism Over Criticism of LGBT Acronym & Deplatforming Attempts

Bounding into comics ^ | May 17th 2020 | Spencer Baculi

[a fool in paradise]

It was politically incorrect (1960s and 70s) for Ghoulardi and later the Ghoul to set off explosives in the tv studio (sometimes even that fans had mailed them(!) to use) but they did it.

So much pearl clutching today,

[mylife]

RIP Carlin!

[mylife]

:) Hey! your’e a sicko LOL

[Zhang Fei]

A blast from the past, involving Briggs’s rendering of We are the World from 1985:

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http://www.angelfire.com/mn/nn/LastDragon.html
[There comes a time
When we need a piece of meat
When the world
Must scrape together some grub
There are Negroes dying
And it’s time to make em eat

(Take it girls:)
We can’t go on
Pretending day by day
That someone else
Will build the cafeterias. . .
We all need chow to stuff our faces wtih
And the truth, you know, goat-meat
is all we need.

(Everbody now, make it wail, sing out:)
We are the weird,
We are the starvin,
We are the scum of the filthy earth,
So let’s start scarfin. . .
There’s a goat-head bakin
We’re callin it their food,
If the Meskins can eat it,
They can eat it, too.

(Okay, bring it down, Stevie and Willie only:)
Send ‘em a heart so they’ll know that someone cares
And a lung, and an elbow, and three big toes.
As the Big Guy told us, we should always clean our plate,
Cause them all the Africans’ stomachs won’t look gross.

(Back up singers, chorus, Lionel Richie, groupies, everbody:)
We are the weird,
We are the starvin,
We are the scum of the filthy earth,
So let’s start scarfin. . .
There’s a burger bakin
We’re callin it Big Mac
But all it really has inside
Is a roach’s back.

(Down again, Diana, Michael and all sissies:)
When you’re down and out,
And there seems no slop at all,
Cause they took it for the tourists at the Hilton Hotel,
Let us realize that they need it just the same
Cause they don’t know how to eat a beetle shell.

(Big finish, drive it home, Hallelujah!:)
We are the weird,
We are the starvin,
We are the scum of the filthy earth,
So let’s start scarfin. . .
There’s a Moon Pie waitin
And a Dr. Pepper, too
And we’ll send out for Shakey’s pizza,
Me and you. ]

[a fool in paradise]

Well there is this from 1985

https://joebobbriggs.com/last-call-retro-review-so-heres-what-u-s-soviet-relations-were-like-35-years-ago-and-ghoulies-too/

...What I’m trying to say is, let’s gets drunk and talk world extermination. Detente City.

Later gator,
Joe Bob Briggs
Drive-In Ambassador

As you can see, I’m all for talking to the Russians, at least till we get more nukes than them...

[mylife]

OMG! the Zoom concerts on TV make me want to puke on all channels!

We are concerned.. We are famous..

[Zhang Fei]

Briggs on his experience at the cable networks:

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https://25yearslatersite.com/2018/06/13/an-oral-history-and-interview-with-joe-bob-briggs/
[I was blessed at both networks because I had very little oversight. Weekend late nights were not a big priority at The Movie Channel or at TNT, so I had no time restrictions and very little censorship. The only time I can remember a reshoot is one of our Christmas shows at The Movie Channel. The idea was that I would bring together all the major religions for a season of peace on Earth—so we had a Baptist preacher, a Catholic priest, a rabbi, and a Unitarian feminist gathered together in a dive bar—and we were supposedly breaking bread together and discussing what we had in common. Then at some point the Baptist preacher says to the rabbi, “We forgive the Jews for killing Jesus,” and he says it very sweetly, and it actually got a big laugh from the crew—and then the four clerics start arguing and it turns into a brawling fistfight. So that was the joke, but the network objected to the one line—“We forgive the Jews for killing Jesus”—and so we had to reshoot a milder version. I would occasionally get called on the carpet for being politically incorrect, but it was a politically incorrect character so that didn’t really make sense, and I would sometimes get flagged for words that were on the Turner Networks forbidden list. If this happened, I would make up a nonsense word to replace it—and then, in some cases, the nonsense word would turn up on the forbidden list! I used to smoke cigars on the Movie Channel show, but all tobacco was forbidden at TNT. But the greatest freedom at both places—I don’t think this exists anywhere on television today—is that I could finish whenever I wanted to, without any set time limit. At TNT we usually had a double feature, and as long as we were done by 6 a.m., they were fine with it. We could finish at 3, 4, 5, or 3:57, they didn’t care. This benign indifference meant the rants could go on forever, the breaks could be as long as we decided they should be, etc. etc. etc. So I was very happy at both places because of a) creative control, and b) minimal oversight.]

[a fool in paradise]

They are supremacist in their actions and want YOU to bow to their superiority. And many are decidedly anti-Christian. Outright hateful in their rhetoric against Christians and organized religion.

[mylife]

Worst pizza I ever ate was at Shakeys in Tokyo.

The on in Rome was a close runner up!

[a fool in paradise]

It is a political movement, it isn’t a “lifestyle” agenda.

[a fool in paradise]

I think that’s the piece that got him fired from one of the Dallas papers.

[farming pharmer]

The Ghoul (Ron Sweed) dies last April.

OMG, did not know that. Just horrible. I'm going to blow up some stuff in his honor.

"Scratch glass, turn blue, but don't get caught!"

[mylife]

Dallas Morning Snooze is a left wing rag.

Poor old Lewis Grizzard would have been crucified there.

FUNNY FUNNY guy RIP.

[Clay Moore]

Yes Joe Bob got run off for mocking the song “We are the World” replacing it with “We are the Weird.” All the NPC’s got their shorts in a wad and he got canned.

[a fool in paradise]

Sounds like the kind of tv network Lester Bangs once wrote about in the 1970s where some freaks take over a studio by force and show things like The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Suddenly Stopped Living And Became Mixed Up Zombies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredibly_Strange_Creatures_Who_Stopped_Living_and_Became_Mixed-Up_Zombies

The rock critic Lester Bangs wrote an appreciative 1973 essay about Incredibly Strange Creatures in which he tries to explain and justify the movie’s value:
...this flick doesn’t just rebel against, or even disregard, standards of taste and art. In the universe inhabited by The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, such things as standards and responsibility have never been heard of. It is this lunar purity which largely imparts to the film its classic stature. Like Beyond the Valley of the Dolls and a very few others, it will remain as an artifact in years to come to which scholars and searchers for truth can turn and say, “This was trash!”[10]

[Tx Angel]

I saw some of “it’s” videos. Cringe af.

[a fool in paradise]

This one also made people angry at the time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeGVObZgVbs

You were supposed to conform the Top 40 World and if you didn’t you were “bad”

[MarvinStinson]

[fella]

The LGBLTs are obviously of superior stock because not one of them has gotten the ChiCom Flu.

[fella]

"Plunk your magic twanger froggy!"

Old enough to have seen Andy Devine say that on Saturday mornings.