How come I've never heard of Emo Philips until today?

[Rabrrrrrr]

I came across a video of him on youtube, and figured "huh - must be someone new". So I googled - apparently this guy has been around for THREE DECADES.

What the hell?

How did I miss this?

Or is it because maybe he just sucks and isn't worth mentioning by anyone?

Would I like his stuff? I listened to 2 minutes of stuff from his website, and it wasn't all that impressive, but 2 minutes isn't much material, either.

[texanwitch]

1. Lucky you.

I can't stand him.

[xchrom]

2. did you want to hear of emo phililps before now?

[ghostsofgiants]

3. He can be amusing, but also incredibly annoying.

[NoPasaran]

4. The thinking man's Carrot Top

[mzteris]

5. who? n/t

[Cocoa]

6. is he still married to Judy Tenuta?

do they have kids?

[Gormy Cuss]

7. "Some mornings it doesn't pay to gnaw through the leather straps."

That's my favorite Emo Phillips line (or at least the way I remember it.)

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Sounds like I haven't missed anything. Good!

[CBGLuthier]

9. We could make beautiful music together

So I pulled on her mole hair and went, thrum, thrum, thrum....


Love Emo. Guess he isn't to everybodies taste exactly.

[mikelgb]

10. I found out about Emo because

I am a big Weird Al Yankovic fan

[tuvor]

11. Clearly, you've been deprived.

I was lucky enough to see him perform in 1986. He's brilliant. Somewhere between Stephen Wright and Henny Youngman. (I don't get the Carrot Top reference, to be honest.)

It's almost impossible to find, but do yourself a favour and keep an eye out for his mid-80s album E=mo Squared.

Once I was in San Francisco, walking across the Golden Gate Bridge, when I saw this guy on the bridge about to jump off. I thought I'd try to stop him. I said, 'Don't jump.' He turned his head. He had the head of a horse. My heart went out to him. I said, 'Why are you going to jump from the bridge?' He said, 'My girlfriend's suing me.' I said, 'For Palomino?'

He said, 'Nobody loves me.' I told him, 'God loves you, you silly ninny.' He asked, 'How do you know there is a God?' I said, 'Of course there's a God. Do you think that billions of years ago, a bunch of molecules floating around at random without rhyme or reason could someday have created all this?'

He said, 'I guess you're right.' And a tear came to his eye.

I said, 'Are you a Christian or Jew or Hindu or what?'

He said, 'A Christian.'

I said, 'Small world! Me too. Are you a Protestant or Catholic or Greek Orthodox?'

He said, 'Protestant.'

I said, 'Me too! What denomination of Protestant?'

He said, 'Baptist.'

I said, 'Me too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?'

He said, 'Northern Baptist.'

I said, 'Me too! Are you Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?'

He said, 'Northern Conservative Baptist.'

I said, 'Me too! Are you Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist or Northern Conservative Reformed Baptist?'

He said, 'Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist.'

I said, Me too! Are you Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes or Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Eastern Region?'

He said, 'Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region.'

I said, 'Me too! Are you Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879 or Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?'

He said, 'Northern Conservative Fundamentalist Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.'

I screamed, 'DIE HERETIC!' And pushed him off the bridge!