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Emo

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After a long absence from the comedy scene, Emo Philips returns!
Although the hair and wardrobe are different, the humor and delivery are still pure Emo. His whacked out view on life is still...well, whacked out.. but it's also occasionally a notch more adult oriented.

It's difficult to talk specifically about a comedy CD without giving away punch lines but this is some funny stuff. At one point, Emo's response to the sight of someone going through his garbage made me literally collapse on the floor laughing. And I don't do that a whole lot. Really!

If your view in life contains any of the following words: eccentric, strange, weird, demented, bent, quirky or bizarre, then check out Emo on his very funny CD. He just may be your cup of cole slaw.

This is the goods. Not as strong as his old bit, but still worth the money. This CD ended too quickly, and I sat for minutes waiting for a hidden track that didn't exist. Emo's back, but I can't get over his change of apperance. This one's worth it.

I've been waiting for an Emo CD for years. This is after seeing Emo several times in concert (a couple of times in the 80s and a more recent viewing in San Francisco). Emo's LPs, E=MO2 and at the Hasty Pudding, are comedy legends. This CD brings us up to date, kind of presenting the best of Emo's humour since those LPs. Some of the jokes on the CD are old (I heard them live back in the late 80s) while some are new. But, regardless, they are all quite a joy to hear.

Now, if someone would just get on the stick and get those two albums releases as CDs, we could all live in peace and harmony. (Sony Canada has given in to my demands, so now all is as it should be)

A lot had changed between the sixteen years between his first album and this one. For better or for worse, subjects that were once taboo are now commonplace. There is still no profanity in his routines, but there are a couple of jokes that will make for an awkward moment or two if small children are present. That said, this is the stand-up comedy we fans have been waiting for since well, since Emo Philips won our hearts and minds back in the mid-eighties. In fact, this material is every bit as good as anything he had written at the height of his career...

...and here's a prime example to prove my point:

"What if Hitler had not died in his bunker, but had lapsed into a brain-dead coma? Could his soul had purified itself over the last half-century from evil to good? If the answer is no, is the soul then not merely a construct of the brain? If the answer is yes, is morality volitional?" (A long and awkward silence descends upon the audience at the Ice House in Pasadena, California.) "So these two ducks walk into a bar..."

His delivery in this performance is more like that at the Hasty Pudding Theatre than that on E=MO2. The first minute or two did take a little getting used to because of it was as if he was trying to tune his voice for the rest of the performance, so that would be my only minor complaint. But the material itself is as good as ever and here is proof: "So I'm at the Wal*Mart, which is where I think everyone goes eventually...if they die without Christ."

Classic Emo. If you're already a fan, you'll love it-if not, get with the program!

Brilliant humor from Emo. You will not regret buying this CD.

Repug bias: emo made a crack about Ted Kennedy being a drunk, calling a guy in a coma who is brain-dead a democrat, saying "george bush never executed anyone who didn't deserve it" and meaning it, and he made cracks at the expense of animal rights protesters. The fact that he offered no counter-balancing liberal sentiment shows he has a real streak of angry bigot in him. So emo, did all 150 people bush executed as governor of TX deserve it? Did you check each and every one? All 150? Only a real a**hole would say something like that. I bought the CD because I remember the old Emo who was funny, but the new emo is different-the soft lilt is gone, his affect now sounds forced, he was way over-the-top raunchy, and of course the vulgar repug bias. This performance had an undercurrent of anger-yuck what a turnoff. I'm returning mine-check out the number of used CDs available-37 when I looked. I think people agree with me that it isn't worth keeping.