Plus a few old jokes and some celebrity guests who will still return our phone calls.
Put it all together and it spells PARTAY.
This is sort of the secret to the revival of my career, he said with a laugh.
Joe Bob Briggs (aka John Bloom) on ‘The Last Drive-in’Shudder
People who watched me when they were kids are now running the networks.
They changed the whole company and cut a lot of stuff back, Briggs recalled.
We dont want to spend this kind of money.’
And I said, Well, f**k you,' Briggs laughed.
Now, I have to do it.'
Then, the night of the taping, he crashed Shudders servers.
I didnt understand the significance of that, actually, and I was with Darcy.
And a couple of other [AMC-owned] websites went down, too, Briggs recalled.
I said, Well, thats disappointing.
Because I kind of wanted people to see the show.
And she said, No!
This is the best thing that could ever happen.'
But it wouldnt take long after Briggs big victory to be granted more resources.
Its been amazing because when I was young, I was considered sort of the bad boy on TV.
I was always getting in trouble, Briggs recounted.
You cant do this.
You cant broadcast this because youre going to offend the older people, Job Bob.
And then the notes I would get at Shudder are like, You cant do this.
You cant say that because youre going to offend theyoungerpeople, the millennials and the post-millennials.'
Notes of this sort left him asking, Well, what the f**k?
he said, laughing.
Is there no period in history where you might just make jokes about everything?
We dont get in trouble at all.
So Im a little bit disappointed.
Like, did I lose my edge?
One of them we did like that wasDemon Wind.
The audience was not clamoring forDemon Wind, but we showed it anyway.
And he hopes to one day soon return with another marathon.
Today, it would cost a lot more than $30,000.
Ill just leave it at that, laughed Briggs.
Maybe we cant do 13 movies, maybe we can do six or something.
But I would love to do that again.
