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I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Emo Philips
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Emo Philips
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 7
Comedian
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Stand-Up Comedy
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New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guy was very rude. I said, I'd like a card. He says, You have to prove you're a citizen of New York. So I stabbed him.
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I went into the gas station, said, Fill 'er up, Harry. The guy said, Regular? I said, No, put on a gorrila suit and dance like a fairy.
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Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.
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I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws onto the seats.
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How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.
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I pray a simple prayer every morning. It's an ecumenical prayer. Whether you're Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or Hindu, I think it speaks to the heart of every faith. It goes “Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.”
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Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.
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I started doing stand-up at the age of 20. This was back in 1976, around the time (coincidence?) that the first comedy clubs were starting. The young comedians of today gasp when I tell them how many shows I did that first year: 500. Five nights a week.
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Everyone, everywhere, and all the time, used to laugh at me when I was growing up. So, when I was around 18, I thought, 'I'll become a comedian, and then if everyone laughs at me, I'll be famous.' So I went on stage one night and, for the first time in my life, everyone stopped laughing at me.
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I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper.
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When I was a kid my dad would say, Emo, do you believe in the Lord? I'd say, Yes! He'd say, Then stand up and shout Hallelujah! So I would ... and I'd fall out of the roller coaster.
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I was a cute baby. My mom said when I was born they threw away the mold. Some of it grew back.
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I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child.
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I've always thought the best way to teach a kid not to be scared of the dark is to fill his daylight hours with as much horror as possible.
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The subconscious is like having a laboratory assistant who pretends to love you and help you, but after you go home to go to sleep it goes back into the lab and starts fumbling with the data and destroying it. It's a very tricky thing. People think our minds are us, but that's not true at all. The mind is not us.
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He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.
Emo Philips
I never cheated on my wife. I took seriously those vows of celibacy.
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There's a joke in everything, the trick is finding it. The best compliment a joke can get is what Huxley said about Darwin's theory of evolution - 'Why didn't I think of that?'
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Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one because they're the devil.
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I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.
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