Joe Bob Briggs and Don Graham Host the Texas Show

Joe Bob Briggs, the legendary Texas writer & TV personality, will say goodbye to the Alamo Downtown this Saturday with a special two-part film event.

First, Joe Bob will join noted Texas historian, author and UT Professor Don Graham in hosting The Texas Show, a "snappy overview/history of the image of Texas & Texas in the movies, from prehistoric times to the 1980s". In what is sure to be enlightening/hilarious conversation, Don and Joe Bob will comment on all kinds of Texas-related film clips and still photographs from the early 1900s to the present day.

Then, Joe Bob will host a screening of the infamous 1945 education-sploitation (what?) film Mom and Dad. Disguised as a health education film, Mom and Dad lured curious audiences with graphic medical footage (including an actual birth! eww!) and used an "educational" pretext to circumvent early film censorship rules. The film went on to become the third highest-grossing film of the 1940s, and is now recognized as a classic of exploitation cinema. Joe Bob will provide his own unique brand of commentary for what is already a bizarre and enjoyable film.

Inidividual tickets are avilable for each show, or you can purchase a double-feature ticket and catch both of 'em.

The Texas Show w/ Joe Bob Briggs and Don Graham
Saturday, June 16th
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
7pm
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Mom and Dad w/ Joe Bob Briggs
Saturday, June 16th
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown
9:45pm
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