Dangit after reading this thread I'm really intrigued, would love to hear some of his stuff. Sounds pretty hilarious.
Phil's show, when accurately tuned in, sounds as though you are driving on the highway at night, trying to keep awake and scanning through the radio frequencies for an entertaining talk show.
Many times his show would begin midstream a conversation or debate with one of his characters presenting an absurdly ridiculous position, but just within bounds of a crazy Americana and being available for comments from callers as social commentary.
It might take the listener 5 -10 minutes to clue into the assumed theme, but the radio listener scanning the dial would likely assume he came in midstream and would hang around trying to figure out the obviously absurd conflict being presented.
The show touches upon human nature's inclination to correct a wrong when it's identified, and highlights how many people take things too serially when they should first listen and discern.
A couple of years ago he claimed he was departing to take the show onto TV in a visual format. Hard to tell with Phil which is real and which is Memorex.