I used to hear him/see him on telly all the time, and now he’s nowhere! Did he die? Retire? What the hell happened, he was hilarious!
See the following URL:
He’s alive and still working.
[Fixed your link for ya – Alphagene]
[Edited by Alphagene on 10-17-2000 at 12:07 PM]
Well, I can’t get the link to work right, but if you paste in everything on the line into a browser, you’ll get his entry in the IMDb.
I saw him just a few months back on VH-1’s “The List”, when Weird Al Yankovic was hosting. He was also interviewed for Weird Al’s “Behind the Music”; I noticed he no longer wears his trademark Moe Howard haircut.
I can say for sure that he’s still working, as I saw him not three months ago at the Improv Comedy Club in Washington, DC. As noted, he doesn’t have the same haircut anymore, but it’s still weird – shorter and standing straight up. He doesn’t quiiiite have the same voice either, but he tries. Some of the same jokes, some new ones, but still funny, and I still remain an “Emo-philiac”! You can check out his Web site at http://www.emophilips.com (yes, only one L) for his schedule and recent pictures.
Thanks people! God, he looks different…
Huh- he was an associate producer for Meet The Parents. Good to know he bounced back from that bandsaw injury…
Weird co-incidenc! He’s profiled in this weeks “The Onion” AV Club:
My wife and I just saw that movie and both commented that for someone who was so terribly funny and unpredicable, he certainly got himself involved and a pathetically unfunny and predictable movie. My feeling was that he sold out. I look forward to the Onion interview, if only to renew some lost faith.
Emo Philips is on the Bob & Tom radio show today. The show is broadcast from Indianapolis but I think it is syndicated in other cities.
I swear I remember seeing Emo twice at local comedy clubs back when I was in high school (mid70’s). At that time he went by a different name each time,(possibly one was his given name?) He’s originally from Downers Grove, Illinois, so these were local appearances in Chicago’s western suburbs before he made a name for himself. In fact the first time I saw him he posed as a parking attendant at the club stopping cars as they arrived and asking “Parking for how many?” His material needed some polish, but his delivery was unmistakable even then, though I don’t recall the pageboy haircut being as pronounced.