# What ever happened to Emo Phillips? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 17, 2000, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-emo-phillips/37242 "2000-10-17T10:09:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biffer\_Spice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Biffer\_Spice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffer_Spice)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 10:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-emo-phillips/37242/1 "2000-10-17T10:09:49Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-emo-phillips/37242/2 "2000-10-17T10:52:16Z")
See the following URL: [Emo Philips](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Philips,+Emo) He’s alive and still working. [Fixed your link for ya – Alphagene] [Edited by Alphagene on 10-17-2000 at 12:07 PM] ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-emo-phillips/37242/3 "2000-10-17T10:54:40Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-emo-phillips/37242/4 "2000-10-17T12:59:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hokienautic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/73ab20/32.png) [@Hokienautic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hokienautic)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-emo-phillips/37242/5 "2000-10-17T13:20:59Z")
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](http://www.emophilips.com) (yes, only one L) for his schedule and recent pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Biffer\_Spice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Biffer\_Spice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffer_Spice)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-emo-phillips/37242/6 "2000-10-17T14:37:10Z")
Thanks people! God, he looks different… ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2000, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-emo-phillips/37242/7 "2000-10-17T17:35:53Z")
Huh- he was an associate producer for _Meet The Parents_. Good to know he bounced back from that bandsaw injury… ---
**Author:** ![Inky\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7feea3/32.png) [@Inky\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inky_1)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-emo-phillips/37242/8 "2000-10-18T02:15:13Z")
Weird co-incidenc! He’s profiled in this weeks “The Onion” AV Club: [http://avclub.theonion.com/index.html](http://avclub.theonion.com/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f1d935/32.png) [@CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CC)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-emo-phillips/37242/9 "2000-10-18T02:21:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ScratchDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@ScratchDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ScratchDog)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-emo-phillips/37242/10 "2000-10-27T13:25:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![davesink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cc9497/32.png) [@davesink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davesink)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2000, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-ever-happened-to-emo-phillips/37242/11 "2000-10-27T14:13:53Z")
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.