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If you can make just one person laugh, then you are already doing better than Tony Danza.
Emo Philips
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Emo Philips
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 7
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I'm not Catholic, but I gave up picking my belly button for lint.
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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 read that nine out of 10 women fantasize about having an unknown man leap through their bedroom window at night and make mad, passionate love to them. Who would think with those odds, I would now be facing 150 hours of community service.
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When I was a kid, I slept on rubber sheets, but now, I'm a man. And I can take the wetness!
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My first job as a kid was going from door to door selling Christmas cards, to raise money for my grandmother's hip replacement. Because, you know... You break it, you buy it.
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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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