Word: emo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Emo Phillips...
...TOOK Marcel Marceau, dressed him like a third grade geek and gave him extensive electroshock therapy you'd create a creature very similar to Emo Phillips. Give him an abused childhood and a wretched lovelife and you'd provide most of his comic material...
Half an hour late, Emo flapped and blinked onto the Hasty Pudding Theatricals' stage, awkward and gangly, wearing too-big checked pants, belt cinched somewhere around where his pectorals should be. Enthusiastic whines of "Eeeemoooo, "Eeeemoooo" rose from the audience...
...proboscis weighing his head forward into a bashful stoop, and his Prince Valiant hair clanking against his forehead, Emo introduced himself: "My name is Emo. As opposed to Emu...which is a tall, ugly skinny creature with a big beak. No resemblance there...." Laughter...
...Emo has created a stage persona more pathetic than Woody Allen, more whiny than The Pathological Liar and about as bizarre as Sid Vicious. He makes it clear from the start that he's a geek, a psycho, a loser, and that we should laugh...