Emo Philips Quotes

• 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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• I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.

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• I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don’t know I’m firing blanks.

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• I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don’t know I’m only using blanks.

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• I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me.

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• I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, “I’m going to mop the floor with your face.” I said, “You’ll be sorry.” He said, “Oh, yeah? Why?” I said, “Well, you won’t be able to get into the corners very well.”

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• I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there’s never any gum under any of them.

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• I asked my girlfriend, ‘Will you marry me?’ She said, ‘We’ll have to ask my father.’ So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, ‘Hello!’

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• He taught me never to smile, which helps me when I visit disaster sites.

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• England is better only because I stand out there as ‘unusual’.

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• At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

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• Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist.

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• My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

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  Topics in Computer

  Tags in Checkers, Beat

• I was the kid next door’s imaginary friend.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Next, Friend

• How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hand, People

• A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

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  Topics in Computer

• I discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, ‘Get off me, you two!’

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  Tags in Adultery

• I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thanks, Other, Sleeping

• When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Realised, Bicycle, Asked, Him, Then, Stole, Every, Pray, Used, New, Forgive, Way, Kid, Lord

Emo Philips (39)

Birth:	7th February, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Comedian

About

Emo Philips was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an American comedian. Much of his standup comedy stems from the use of paraprosdokians spoken in a wandering falsetto tone of voice and a confused, childlike delivery of his material to produce the intended comic timing in a manner invoking the 'wisdom of children' or the idiot savant. He has recorded three comedy albums. His album E=mo², recorded live at Caroline's in New York City, won the 1985 New Music Award for best comedy album. He also released an album called Emo in 2001.

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