Stand-up Comedy Greats: Emo Phillips 1988

Reaganite Republican ^ | February 23, 2011 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

"Most states don't end in the letter 'A'..."

Surrealist comedian Emo Phillips (dob 2.08.56) is an entertainer and comedian originating from the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, Illinois.

The highly unique brand of self-deprecating stand up comedy that made him famous is often built upon the paraprosdokians and garden path sentences spoken in a wandering falsetto tone. It's been said that the wide-eyed, confused, and childlike delivery is employed to invoke the 'wisdom of children' or the idiot savant...


Philips has recorded three comedy albums, including E=mo², which won the 1985 New Music Award for best comedy album. It was later re-released along with his Live at the Hasty Pudding Theatre (1988) album on a single CD. 

Aside from his long career as a standup comic, Emo has been featured in acting roles on television series such as Miami Vice and The Weird Al Show. He was recently a guest star on British television and has numerous voiceover credits.

Emo Phillips  has appeared in feature films as well, including 1989's UHF (as a rather clumsy school shop teacher that accidentally saws his thumb off), the original 1992 version of Meet the Parents (also executive producer), and Desperation Boulevard in 1998.

I sure remember him hitting the stand up scene on the Letterman show in the mid 80s- I thought he was nuts, but a talented act of the sort that tends to stick in your mind.

This clip comes from Emo's exceptional comedy video made at Harvard University's historical Hasty Pudding Theatre in 1988...

OK, OK- I know he's weird, but... I always found Emo to be very, very funny- this schtick's great:

[brief 1:12 video]
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[chuckee]

Emo was a strange comic who once in a while had a good zinger.
The worst comic in my book was George Carlin in his later years. Came across as another pissed off angry atheist who thought that if you cursed enough during your routine the audience would overlook your lack of funny material.

[netmilsmom]

lol!

I went straight to YouTube from this post.

[windcliff]

Emo ping

[Farmer Dean]

When Emo was going to move out of his parents home,His Dad says,”I’m going to miss you.”
Emo says,”I know you are Dad,I tampered with the sights on your rifle.”

[bt_dooftlook]

“When I was a little boy, my parents moved the family to a new state...I didn’t find them again until 2 yrs later, when I was 6”

“When I was a little boy, I remember we used to have a cat, and this cat had a litter of kittens, and my father put them into a sack and took them down to the lake. I cried and cried - because I couldn’t make them skip”

[kidd]

I know this is an older thread, but I heard an Emo clip yesterday that was perfect for FR:

I took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that although her brain was dead her heart was still beating. I thought, “We’ve never had a democrat in the family before.” ~ Emo Philips

[Reaganite Republican]

Emo is hilarious, I still get constant traffic on the RR post this thread is linked too... nobody forgot him.

I might have to post that Emo Democrat joke on my site too sometime lol

Thx Kidd