I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

Philips has several voiceover credits including work on the animated series Dr. Personal life
Through his formative years before taking the pseudonym under which he performed Philips' given name was Phil Soltanek. Career
Philips has recorded three comedy albums.

Much of his standup comedy stems from the use of paraprosdokians and garden path sentences 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.