"Has a glitteringly sharp comic mind. It's hard to criticise when your windpipe is in a reef knot from concussive laughter."
-Sunday Herald
"The absence has only made his heart grow funnier...one spot-on gag after another...his carefully constructed lunacy threatens to give the shambolic world of stand-up a good name."
-Metro
"It's a relief to discover the straightforward gagman...as a master of one-liners, he's way ahead of anyone else."
-The Independent
"A fascinating comedian. His stage persona masks how incredibly professional he is...a master gagsman."
-Scotland On Sunday
"His jokes are gold. And it's not just the way he tells them; it's the number of jokes he has....Absolutely top of the class in the laughing academy."
-The List
"Utterly idiosyncratic. Refreshing, cranky and extraordinarily funny."
-The Times
"Perfection....he sets demanding standards for any comic to achieve, and that even includes himself."
-Chortle
"If Kafka had done stand-up comedy, he might have talked and looked like Emo Philips."
-The New Yorker
"The E.T. of comedy.... A wise child spewing barbed aphorisms."
-The New York Times
"If David Lynch is Jimmy Stewart from Mars, Emo is Buster Keaton from Venus...."
-Evening Standard
"A postgraduate course in lunacy from the master of macabre mischief, incapable of presenting a stale premise or uttering a flat line. He is the velociraptor of comedy: smart, sneaky and merciless."
-Star Tribune
"His jokes are more perfectly constructed, and his personality more compelling, than anyone else's...his comic fusillade is irresistible."
-The Guardian
"Hilariously funny...a breathtaking performance."
-New York Post
"A Massacre of Laughs."
-(Twin) City Pages
"Flawless comic timing."
-People Magazine
"A one-man asylum, worth the trip."
-Boston Globe
"Great."
-Time Out
"Very funny and very strange."
-Chicago Tribune
"Brilliantly sick, but also brilliantly brilliant."
-San Francisco Chronicle
"An object lesson in perfect performance comedy. Honestly, I have never enjoyed a better act in Edinburgh."
-Punch
"Actually worth the hype, a one-off, a genuinely original comic persona."
-The Observer
"Unexpected delights pop up with unerring regularity in what is a cascade of comic invention."
-The Scotsman
"Genuinely Funny."
-Evening News
"Utterly hilarious."
-Glasgow Herald