The Church of the SubGenius may not be a household name across the country, but beginning in the early 1970s, a pair of enterprising Texas-area satirists turned one wildly overt religious experiment ...

On behalf of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, Black and Boone Productions announces the first ever documentary on the Church of the SubGenius, Slacking Towards Bethlehem: J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and the Church of the ...

Midway through Sandy K. Boone’s J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius, viewers finally get a description of the religion at the heart of the documentary. Sporting the same smart-alecky grin ...

"If you want to sell a religion, you have to kill the deity. That's how you do it." Ahahah genius, indeed! A festival promo trailer has debuted for a new documentary titled J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the ...

Sandy K. Boone tells the surprising tale of a Texas-born fake religion in 'J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius.' By THR Staff I first learned of the Church of the SubGenius in a small ...

In 1980, two smart, goofy nerds in Dallas decided to start their own religion. Their names were Doug and Steve, but in the grand tradition of charlatans everywhere, they invented new names for ...

Editor’s note: Take a look back in The Dallas Morning News Archives. “If you don’t already have Bob in your life — or if you’ve never even heard of J.R. “Bob” Dobbs — then concentrate real hard on ...

Exclusive: Sandy K. Boone's new film looks at how a fake church in Texas became way more real than anyone involved could have possibly imagined. The Church of the SubGenius may not be a household name ...

You couldn’t escape his ubiquitous mug back when Austin was truly weird. It appeared on bumper stickers, bulletin boards, telephone poles, streetlights, bathroom walls, and more: A perfectly coiffed ...

J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church of the SubGenius ist ein Dokumentarfilm aus dem Jahr 2019 von Jason Wehling und Sandy K. Boone mit Nick Offerman und Richard Linklater. J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs and the Church ...