Talk:Emo Philips

Marriages
This article used to say he was married to Judy Tenuta, which has since been removed. He's also had 2 other wives and is currently married to one of them. Why is this missing? Why was Judy removed to begin with?

Yeah, what the deal with eliminated his marriage info? He was married to Tenuta, another comedian, which is relevant to his career and pop cultural status. Other celebrity/comedian profiles mention this type of personal information. Interesting that Tenuta's bio doesn't mention it either. If celebrities can decide what public information can or annot be included in a profile, WIkipedia ceases to be a valid source, but rather just an extension of the celebrity's PR team. It's a bad journalism — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:E48B:B600:70BB:C242:2E5D:AF9A (talk) 23:15, 11 July 2020 (UTC)

Soltanec or Philips?
Why does the article use his birth name instead of his stage name, which is what he's almost universally known as? Is this a stylistic issue for Wikipedia, or just for this article? -- nae'blis (talk) 17:59, 10 July 2006 (UTC)


 * It should use his stage name and mention his birth name. Jason Quinn (talk) 16:47, 10 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Emo has asked me to remove his birth name from this article, but I'm guessing that removing valid information is generally frowned upon. True? Is there a special case for a living person who wants a personal detail removed? Ken Laws (talk) 01:31, 18 July 2010 (UTC)

8 Out Of 10 Cats
An internet forum of people, who seem to be fairly evenly split between finding him unfunny (on the show, at least), liking him and generally being baffled by him (in fact, it seems the majority were baffled) does not count as the entire British public, nor does it mean he was poorly receieved. Unless someone can come up with more conclusive evidence of his performance being 'poorly receieved', I'm removing it. 80.6.98.250 13:02, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

That list of jokes...
As much as I enjoyed reading them, it doesn't strike me as something that belongs in an encyclopedia entry. Anyone else agree? --Foot Dragoon 02:05, 10 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Why not?


 * A long list might be un-encyclopedic, but a couple of samples seems appropriate to give the reader a sense of his form of humor. I've therefore redone that section with descriptions of his style and a couple of representative examples, rather than a long list.CoramVobis 19:36, 16 December 2006 (UTC)


 * "My brother says 'Hi.' ... Let's hear it for speech therapy." 24.107.161.57 19:43, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

...Described by Jay Leno as "the best joke writer in America," by British comedian Gary Delaney as the best joke writer in the world, and by "Weird Al" Yankovic as one of the funniest people on the planet...

The best God joke ever - and it's mine! Emo Philips , Thursday 29 September 2005 This morning I received thrilling news: a joke I wrote more than 20 years ago has been voted the funniest religious joke of all time! In case you've missed it, here it is:

The way he talks
I saw him on TV once, and it sounded like he was mentally retarded or something. Why doesn't it mention anything like that on this page? --- Silent RAGE! 09:03, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

He doesn't speak in that high voice all the time. The falsetto is used for effect when he's on stage, and presumably only then. I've met him before while gardening; he was out on a walk and I called out his stage name "Emo! Emo!" Naturally, he came over and chatted with my mother for a bit. (Side note: I grew up in a house on the same block as his late mother's, where he would occasionally stay - supposedly, pictures of faces in his bedroom windows would indicate that he was home.) 71.155.233.148 22:23, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I met him this past weekend. Not only is that not his real voice, but the "Emo hair" is a wig. He's got short grey hair now. RevAladdinSane 07:22, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * It may still be stated in the article that he performs his comedy routine in a falsetto voice for effect. -- Kainaw (what?) 04:27, 2 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Take a look at this video . He clearly does the falsetto voice for effect, but what about that tic with his hand up near his face? Does he have Tourettes'? I'm curious. Fishyfred 01:36, 14 September 2007 (UTC)


 * He's probably half in character because he's on camera. When I met him in Boston he wasn't like that, and at the time he wasn't there for a gig. But he always does that when he's in character. Very nice guy by the way. --Dp67 | QSO | Sandbox | UBX's 18:45, 17 October 2007 (UTC)


 * It's such a notable part of his stage persona, that I went ahead and added something about it; did my best to give a well-rounded. NPOV, idea of what his act comes over like to someone who's never seen him before. 208.251.140.163 (talk)

Photo
The current photo, while fitting all the usage criteria, is not really representative of the Emo Philips that most people would recognise. Is there another photo which could also be used, something more resembling this http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a145/alanspach/emo_philips_comedian_6x9-72.jpg? Yeanold Viskersenn 13:30, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I did not recognize him at all as the person on the left. I remember him as a very strange person with bangs, and an almost feminine haircut. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.72.56.74 (talk) 00:04, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Back in 1972 to 75 he used to sit down at the other end of the Downers Grove Walgreens counter from me. He had the bangs and sort of a Doctor Who thing goin' on, before the comedy success. 2603:300A:DF1:0:F9F1:F1EB:5DAB:A4C1 (talk) 21:19, 21 January 2022 (UTC)Dave

Name
How unfortunate to be called "Emo" in this day and age. Nukleoptra —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 18:43, 29 September 2007 (UTC)


 * Is it his real name? --Muna (talk) 08:51, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

Well. The internet is a mixed blessing i guess. 95.109.102.252 (talk) 21:18, 26 February 2010 (UTC)

Just For Laughs
If anyone has any info on his appearances at the Just For Laughs International Comedy Festival, please post it. I think he has appeared twice, once early in his career, and once more recently. (it is supposedely the largest comedy festival in the world, and may have been his big break, but I am not certain) --RogueMountie 20:24, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I have AVIs of him as far back as '83 (and one from the "hasty pudding" in '87)...does the JFL festival pre-date that? 78.86.230.62 (talk) 22:43, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 14:52, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Updates needed
I added Philips' most recent (2001) album to the discography list, but don't have enough info to do more updates. Anyone got more current information? Cancilla (talk) 06:28, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I have updated the 2001 album, and all the others, with track lists & times. - Salamurai (talk) 00:47, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Needs his role on Adventure Time. 2601:82:C002:5CC7:155C:D068:83B5:37ED (talk) 00:16, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

Merge
- Salamurai (talk) 00:37, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Names
Though his name appears as Philip Soltanec at Last.fm many sites give his birth surname as Soltanek. Most sites mentioning Soltanec or Soltanek give his first name as Phil. MyHeritage's entry under Emo Philips lists other names in the following order: Phil Soltanek, Phil Soltanec, Emo Phillips.

Shouldn't his birth names appear in the lede following his stage name? Mcljlm (talk) 05:23, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Discography of his album, listing every joke/track in album?
I'm in agreement with User:Foot_Dragoon (above). Surely, a "discography" should be the list of his albums, not the list of every joke/track on each album? It gets doubly vacuous when the tracks for his last album, being a compendium, are nothing more than a repetition of the first two albums' tracks(!) One can appreciate that someone took the time to list all the tracks out, but in the final event, it's just not appropriate.

For a reasonable example of a discography, I would look to: George Carlin's discography or Judy Tenuta's

For this reason, I'm removing the list of jokes/tracks and replacing it with the list of Phillips' albums.

I'm equally dubious regarding the exhaustive list of all Phillips TV/film appearances. For iMDb (or Phillips' personal website) this would makes sense, but even Tom Hanks' or Julia Roberts' wikipedia entries do not have exhaustive lists of their talkshow appearances.

And, little odd there's no mention of his personal life: eg, ex-wife Judy Tenuta and 3 other marriages (according to iMDB). --Petzl (talk) 23:39, 12 April 2021 (UTC)