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Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.
Emo Philips
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Emo Philips
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 7
Comedian
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Stand-Up Comedy
Chicago
Illinois
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I've always suffered from a complete inability to sense who's important.
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In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
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My girlfriend said, Just buy me something crazy and expensive, something I don't even need! So, I signed her up for radiation treatment.
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I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.
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My dad and I, we used to play baseball. I was the catcher. Which I liked. Until one day, I saw this game on TV, and I said, Hang on, how come their catcher doesn't have his hands tied to his ankles?
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Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year. Like, this time, it's on December 25th.
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The American government is making nuclear weapons like there's no tomorrow.
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They have a sign at the beach, no glass bottles. I think that's so the other sand particles don't feel like underachievers.
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In college I was one of six males who auditioned for five male roles in a comedy play. I was the one rejected. At that moment I made up my mind never to place myself at the mercy of some pompous, goateed, black-turtleneck-shirted should I yay him or nay him? pantywaist ever again.
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Sex is logically impossible after marriage. You have to overcome the paradox of Not this again, and Hey, where did you learn that?
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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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I don't really hang out with people. I like to be by myself. In fact, I've been arrested a few times because I like to walk around at two or three in the morning, looking at shop windows. The cops take me to the station and fingerprint me. But I wouldn't call that hanging out.
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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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A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
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I asked the head musician if I could go onstage during the next break and he said sure. I got two laughs in twenty minutes, and walked out feeling more elated than I had ever felt in my entire life. The glory of that triumph contented me for two full years.
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I'm learning Cuban. It's like Spanish, but with fewer words for luxury items.
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When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.
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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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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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