I heard him on the radio today and cracked up. He said: "I came home and found my brother passed out on the couch with an empty bottle of sleeping pills at his side. I called the paramedics and they came and pumped his stomach. He learned his lesson though, never take my last two sleeping pills"
I had his audio cassette when I was in High School. Listened to it so many times I could recite the entire thing.. Not as impressed seeing him perform, but still consider him the pinnacle of humor in my life.
Isn't that the guy from the sketch in Weird Al's movie UHF? I think he was the producer or director of that movie. Remember the band saw accident! EDIT: Was the writer of UHF, thank you IMDB.
Always loved Emo. His humor employs the use of literal vs figurative meanings " I caught my girlfriend in bed with another man. I was crushed. So I told them to get off of me" 😂
I first saw this guy back in the 80's here in the UK, and have to admit that I found hiszany half-wit humour kind of crazy at the time. However, now that the years have passed, his humour seems to me to be more credible. Or, am I just getting old.
+thecrashzone20 I've hung out with him a number of times, and I can tell you, he very rarely breaks character. It's mostly him, just dialed up a bit for the stage.
Robert Gift I don't want to spoil the joke for you, so google the greatest religious joke of all time emo Phillips and you should find a video on youtube or the complete joke written out. It's a fairly long joke, but the punchline is worth it.
***** Emo: Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody loves me." I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?" He said, "Yes." I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?" He said, "A Christian." I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me, too! What franchise?" He said, "Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?" He said, "Northern Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region." I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912." I said, *"Die, heretic!"* and I pushed him over.
Came to U of Georgia. Began: "I've always said that for kindness and hospitality... You just can't beat the slave-states!" Boo!! Fought through the bad start and won the crowd.
I feel like he got less funny over time, maybe it was because he realized how much people liked his voice cracks and awkward movements that he started overusing them.
EMOOO, is not perfect but almost there... LOLOLOL Great jokes, audience was quiet 'cause they knew that EMO delivers lines that ARE intelligent. "Some" don't/cannot understand, a little more intelligence from your part may scratch funny, BUT doubt it...
This is painful to watch. These jokes feel like they are from a teen nick show. One liners just work for some people I guess, but the delivery and flailing just make him so unfunny to me.
GodlessGonads I agree, i got like 1 minute into the video and started thinking how god awful it would be to have to sit through this in the audience. How could anybody like this???
Disagreement? Must be a troll. Why is a falsetto funny? Why is squirming funny? His jokes are very simple and his gestures just comes across as an annoying act to add to lackluster material. But I'm an asshole for having that opinion, so forget about having to actually explain why his comedic style is funny...
Without the weird act, most of his jokes wouldn't make any sense. They kind of function on the basis of the audience thinking that this guy is kind of an alien/weirdo/man-child who doesn't understand the basic fundamentals of life. If a normally dressed comedian, told these jokes with a normal delivery, I think they would bomb.
I heard him on the radio today and cracked up. He said: "I came home and found my brother passed out on the couch with an empty bottle of sleeping pills at his side. I called the paramedics and they came and pumped his stomach. He learned his lesson though, never take my last two sleeping pills"
I had his audio cassette when I was in High School. Listened to it so many times I could recite the entire thing.. Not as impressed seeing him perform, but still consider him the pinnacle of humor in my life.
JohnPaul Ingress me too
Most comedians help you escape your problems for a while with a few laughs. Emo takes you into an alternate universe.
Brilliant bloke. Takes chances. The audience was reluctant then positive.
I saw him live last year. Yes He is brilliant and he still has fresh material.
Joke grenades another comic once called them.
Saw him in a small bar in Florida. Amazingly creative jokes.
One of the funniest comedians of all time. Practically pioneered and defined the One Liner genre of comedy.
Uh... no. the pioneer of one liners is obviously Rodney Dangerfield.
Uh..Henley Youngman. Of course Rodney and emo were funny.
Emo is a genius. His delivery is just as impressive as his jokes. Love him!
Easily one of the top 5 stand-up comics I've ever heard.
Isn't that the guy from the sketch in Weird Al's movie UHF? I think he was the producer or director of that movie. Remember the band saw accident!
EDIT: Was the writer of UHF, thank you IMDB.
rude
Jay Levey and Weird Al wrote UHF, not Emo
"Boy is my face red"
omg this dude is awesome. I wanna see more of his stand up!
Always loved Emo. His humor employs the use of literal vs figurative meanings
" I caught my girlfriend in bed with another man. I was crushed. So I told them to get off of me" 😂
I first saw this guy back in the 80's here in the UK, and have to admit that I found hiszany half-wit humour kind of crazy at the time. However, now that the years have passed, his humour seems to me to be more credible. Or, am I just getting old.
Gonna go see him in vancouver next week
So jealous..
he talks like I was just kidnapped by a jolly but delusional cavedwelling old man who asked me to join him for cave stew. I love him.
what a legend, we also share the same birthday
Emo is The Emperor of the Bait & Switch Joke!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
2018 and I just saw him as the opener for a weird Al concert
It's like Steven Wright quantum leaped into Tiny Tim's body.
saw him last nite in Tempe. he was so funny.
+Platero Beagy Huh, is he still around after all these years doing the same act?
Enjoyed it ~ thanks
A friend of mine met him in a hotel and he helped her with her bags. He was exactly the same as on stage!
Emo & Judy Tenuta...brings me back to my high school days! Gawd, what happened to comedy?
This is awesome
Omg thanks for posting this!
Man, when he was on @Midnight I was thinking "who is this clown?" Now im wondering how I never heard him before.
is that hes voice or just for fun
marc raydaybay Just for fun. It is a character
+thecrashzone20 I've hung out with him a number of times, and I can tell you, he very rarely breaks character. It's mostly him, just dialed up a bit for the stage.
Seen him live and it was hilarious. He's not your typical comedian you think of. The weirdness is what makes a him great.
So Freaking Brilliant
He was the opening act for Weird Al at a concert tonight at Tuacahn.
Emo Philips, comic genius.
"In tonight's episode, taako is being played by emo Philips!"
There's a new Emo documentary coming out. Google "Stalking Emo"
Fancy finding you here. I am literally only watching this right now because of our conversation yesterday.
If Emo is there. I am too.
I'll check it out! Though it feels like a wasted opportunity to call it "Finding Emo."
Lots of Graybles here...
JarOfRats putting two and two together, im so happy to find out he was a cameo voice actor on adventure time
Hahaha
Emo Emo Emo!!!
Oh shit!!!! Thats Shannen from "Home Movies"!!!
Patrick D OH MY GOD YOU'RE RIGHT
Patrick D Yeah
No shit
He's responsible for one of the best religious jokes ever.
What is it?
Robert Gift I don't want to spoil the joke for you, so google the greatest religious joke of all time emo Phillips and you should find a video on youtube or the complete joke written out. It's a fairly long joke, but the punchline is worth it.
***** Emo: Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump.
I said, "Don't do it!"
He said, "Nobody loves me."
I said, "God loves you. Do you believe in God?"
He said, "Yes."
I said, "Are you a Christian or a Jew?"
He said, "A Christian."
I said, "Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?"
He said, "Protestant."
I said, "Me, too! What franchise?"
He said, "Baptist."
I said, "Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?"
He said, "Northern Baptist."
I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?"
He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist."
I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?"
He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region."
I said, "Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?"
He said, "Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912."
I said, *"Die, heretic!"* and I pushed him over.
Robert Gift His joke about praying for a bicycle is brilliant also.
+James Bowman and the one about performing a selfless act
The most iconic practitioner of paraprosdokians.
Love Emo.
People laughed when he first said he wanted to be a comedian. Well they're not laughing now.
OMG the contestant on America's Got Talent summer 2014 even LOOKS LIKE Emo....
i just watched this, and I think they are quiet different. Maybe an ever so slight similarity, but not by much.
Emo is hilarious. He has always been politically incorrect, which makes him great!
Came to U of Georgia. Began: "I've always said that for kindness and hospitality... You just can't beat the slave-states!"
Boo!! Fought through the bad start and won the crowd.
He owned that stage haha
Dude is Hilarious
EMOOOOO!!!
Unique talent- so funny
oh my god this is hilarious
did emo just use the same performance for 10 years of his career? Ive watched so many videos on youtube of him and its all the same.
Emo. Thank you for being my friend?
He's funny if i don't have to look at him.
you do`nt have to look at him. But he`s funnier if you do.
There's a new Emo documentary coming out. Google "Stalking Emo"
he reminds me of pee wee Herman
I wanna know what the fuck hes on and where i can get some
Alley Lee I was just thinking that lol
Acts like the idiot savant yet is very likely the most brilliant & smartest man in the room.
This guy is up there with Carlin as one of the greats of stand-up
What a spaz
That fur coat joke was fucking amazing
AbracaDaniel
I feel like he got less funny over time, maybe it was because he realized how much people liked his voice cracks and awkward movements that he started overusing them.
EMOOO, is not perfect but almost there... LOLOLOL
Great jokes, audience was quiet 'cause they knew that EMO delivers lines that ARE intelligent. "Some" don't/cannot understand, a little more intelligence from your part may scratch funny, BUT doubt it...
I don’t like the voice he does but some of his jokes made me laugh
did he have a stroke or something?
Good.
Annoying drunken guy yells "Emo" all the time..
This is really hard to watch.
This is painful to watch. These jokes feel like they are from a teen nick show. One liners just work for some people I guess, but the delivery and flailing just make him so unfunny to me.
GodlessGonads I agree, i got like 1 minute into the video and started thinking how god awful it would be to have to sit through this in the audience. How could anybody like this???
GodlessGonads He's highly successful and has been voted 50th of the top 100 comics of all time. He's obviously got appeal.
+GodlessGonads I guess you like jokes where you dont have to think.
His flailing one liners take about a second to understand?
They aren't clever they just come off as very simple jokes most of the time.
Disagreement? Must be a troll.
Why is a falsetto funny? Why is squirming funny? His jokes are very simple and his gestures just comes across as an annoying act to add to lackluster material.
But I'm an asshole for having that opinion, so forget about having to actually explain why his comedic style is funny...
wtf this sucks how he get gigs
Hard to laugh at this guy.
+Dan Morgan extremely easy if you know whats funny.
if you didnt laugh then your a boring fucking person i'd never want to be near
he's not very funny.
Thing is his jokes are actually rather funny but his act is pathetic and ruins it...
Without the weird act, most of his jokes wouldn't make any sense. They kind of function on the basis of the audience thinking that this guy is kind of an alien/weirdo/man-child who doesn't understand the basic fundamentals of life. If a normally dressed comedian, told these jokes with a normal delivery, I think they would bomb.
***** But you still have an image of him in your head, and his voice makes him funnier.
+SierraFlyFishingAdventures I guess it's subjective. seems like a cheap ploy to me to cover up for his less than stellar material.
cringe worthy