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As well as performing stand up comedy, he has acted in a few television series and films, appeared on UK panel show ''8 Out of 10 Cats'', and was the executive producer for the 1992 version of ''Meet The Parents''.
He played Dooper in ''[[Slacker Cats]]''. He's not made many other appearances since the 1980s, but one place you can see him is as the office worker alone in his cubicle in the video for [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpMvS1Q1sos&ob=av2e "It's All About The Pentiums"] -- where he looks nothing like his demented man-child standup persona. And in 2018 he was the opening act for Weird Al's ''Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour''.
In 1988 he married fellow comic Judy Tenuta, but the couple later divorced.
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* [[Black Comedy]]: Emo's jokes often consist of him cheerily discussing tragic or depressing events that have happened to him, or violent actions he himself has committed.
{{quote|{{spoiler|"My Cat gave birth to kittens, and My dad took me and the kittens down to the lake and we drowned them, and I was crying my eyes out because I couldn't get them to skip."}}}}
* [[Gingerbread House]]: In his performances on [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'s 2018 tour, [[Emo Philips]] invoked the original trope namer:
{{quote|My ex-wife called me up and told me she needed fifty thousand dollars to remodel her house to better suit her personality. I asked her, "Does it have to be ''real'' gingerbread?"}}
* [[Jive Turkey]]: Yes. Really. He will occasionally stick tidbits of urban slang into his routine to throw you off. Needless to say, it's played for laughs.
* [[Love It or Hate It]]: You'll either love his offbeat style or find him creepy and irritating.
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{{quote|"''Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.''"
''"I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming.... They don't know I'm only using blanks."'' }}
:In his appearances in 2018, this seems to have evolved into a "psychopathic senior citizen", given his grey hair and the shift from overalls and T-shirt to a Victorian-looking suit.
* [[Riddle of the Sphinx]]: One of his jokes involves telling this riddle to an assassin about to kill him, on the terms that Emo goes free if he answers incorrectly. The assassin gives the most well-known answer, but naturally, he's wrong. Emo's answer: {{spoiler|A donkey has four legs in the morning, then you saw off two of them in the afternoon and then you glue one of them back on at night.}}
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: He tells a long story about going to a library to find out information about the Heimlich maneuver where he has multiple long exchanges with librarian, has to make a side trip to get change for a Xerox and so forth {{spoiler|when he finally gets back to the car, his sister is purple from the chicken bone she's choking on. So it's a subversion}}.
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