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Character Analysis

Wallace Langham

Phil

Played by Wallace Langham

196 jokes across 56 episodes of The Larry Sanders Show

WAR

15.2

Total Jokes

196

Avg Craft

6.8

Avg Impact

6.5

Comedy Style

Character Comedy

Phil delivers 196 scored jokes across 56 episodes of The Larry Sanders Show, averaging 6.8 on craft and 6.5 on impact for a career WAR of 15.2. Their comedy leans toward character comedy. The highest-scoring line is below.

Funniest Phil Lines

All Jokes — 195 total

S1E05

Phil:Larry is just the kind of asshole to read that and believe it.

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S1E08

Phil:You know I'm talking about Jerry, right? He's really fucking up.

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S1E10

Phil:Oh, Larry! What should I bring tonight? Ice? Chips? Salt!

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S1E10

Larry · Phil:Phil, you know, I've got this... Ulcer? Party.

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S2E07

Phil:Well, I guess we know which side of the family you get that mouth from.

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S2E07

Phil · Phil:It screams you. / It screams penis, vagina more than anything.

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S2E07

Phil:I'd have said you come home from a hard day at the paper route. Your mom's there with a thin dressing gown that slips open, and...

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S2E09

Phil:Who isn't?

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S2E10

Phil:He almost made abortion funny.

7.57.8
S2E11

Phil · Beverly:You know, the more I hear about this, It sounds to me Like there's Little difference Between Hank And the amazing clifford. Clifford probably Dresses better.

7.06.5
S2E11

Phil · Beverly:They were on her desk In a big envelope With a playboy Bunny on it. We just thought It was a new issue.

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S2E12

Phil:What finally convinced him, the quality of our riots?

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S2E12

Phil:A shetland pony?

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S2E12

Phil:It looks like something Sammy Davis Jr. would have worn.

6.16.0
S2E12

Phil:I'm sure one will be opening up very soon.

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S2E12

Phil · Jerry:Larry could hardly even look at me. It wasn't my imagination?

6.26.0
S2E12

Phil:I was gonna give him a Mickey Mantle one! I got it in the car! I already got him a Mickey Mantle one!

6.16.2
S2E12

Phil:I was gonna give him a Mickey Mantle one! I got it in the car! I already got him a Mickey Mantle one!

6.46.3
S2E14

Phil · Hank:'We didn't introduce R.E.M. as "rem" last week.' 'Oh, my brave, brave Phil. Always with the jokes and yet so very desperate.'

7.66.8
S2E14

Phil · Mike · others:'If somebody gets fired, it will be me.' 'No. No, it is. I've been here the shortest time.' Multiple people claiming they'll be fired

6.86.0
S2E14

Phil · Artie · Larry:'This is a booking problem, right?' '[Artie] Phil, shut the fuck up.' 'I'll handle it. Phil, shut the fuck up.'

7.37.2
S2E14

Phil · Artie:'I told my friends to watch Tim Miller last night.' 'Why, Phil?' 'They haven't seen anything that good since my college roommate's nervous breakdown.'

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S2E15

Larry · Phil:We don't need one. There are 10 million People watching. But can you Trust them?

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S2E17

Artie · Phil:He's telling me About his troubles At the restaurant. But you're Not in there. He doesn't know that.

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S2E18

Phil · Darlene:He's taking us To new york. What if he's not Taking all of us?

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S2E18

Phil:I knew it! It's new york!

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S3E01

Larry · Phil:So what have you been up to the last 3 months, Phil? Oh, jerking off. See you Monday.

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S3E03

Larry · Phil:When you got money from me the other day, you didn't give anybody my atm password, did you? No, but you gotta admit that l-a-r-r-y is pretty easy to guess.

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S3E03

Phil:What, to Sanders? Hardy-har-har.

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S3E04

Larry · Phil:I don't think she's got the right personality. I think she's too... abrasive? No, it's, uh... brusque? No. Incapable of putting a performer at ease because she's has a basic contempt for the business.

7.06.5
S3E04

Phil:Well, you know, those are made to be seen, not to be worn. They're made to hang in your closet so when someone looks in there they say, 'oh, you've been on arsenio.'

6.56.0
S3E04

Phil · Larry:Milk chocolate necktie. He does. Well, those are probably meant to be eaten, not worn.

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S3E04

Phil · Paula:Is that suzanne pleshette? Phil, get out!

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S3E04

Phil · DeVito:the jogging suit is just a wrapping, sir, inside, you'll find a lovely silver desk clock from tiffany. Silverplate? Solid silver, Mr. D. Swiss movement.

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S3E04

Phil · Larry:Oh, hell, yes. We could put your cock on it. As long as it's not the hour hand.

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S3E06

Phil · George Wendt:I'm Phil, the best writer. Thanks for doing the show. No problem. There's been a little change.

6.86.0
S3E06

George Wendt · Phil:Who's gonna host? Uh...Hank. Hank? Well, that's cool. Oh, my god. Oh, my god.

7.17.0
S3E06

George Wendt · Phil:I did Conan's first show, so... You have to remember. Yes, I do, and I forgive you.

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S3E07

Phil:Did you guys fuck between the 9th and 10th floor?

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S3E07

Phil:Next week it'll be Bill Clinton and who else, Hillary?

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S3E07

Darlene · Phil:Now I'm doubly screwed because I went a whole month without having an orgasm. Well, guess what. So did i. Well, that's the point, right?

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S3E07

Phil:You and paula are not best friends. You're girls.

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S3E07

Phil:You and paula are Not best friends. You're girls.

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S3E07

Phil:I will sue the Show. I want you To know that.

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S3E08

Phil:You know, If you're going To try something new, You should tell people. You scared the shit Out of me.

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S3E09

Artie · Beverly · Phil:A little late with Larry's melon, huh, beverly? Oh, well, I had to go and get a new one first, Arthur. I mean, I had it already cut up into little chunks the way he always likes it. Then he came in today, said he wanted it bald. I'd do it, except I'm already dating someone.

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S3E09

Paula · Phil:Well, I charmed his ass. I told him roxanne was my favorite movie. I inquired about his play... in other words, you promised to blow him? Ho ho ho, Phil, you know all my little tricks, don't you?

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S3E09

Artie · Phil:He gave it a great deal of thought. He feels it's the right way to go. Unbelievable. Thanks, Mike.

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S3E09

Paula · Phil:Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, little big man. Steve Martin's not doing this sketch. He's just paneling. Well, that may have been the case, but, uh, I'd like you to send it to him.

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S3E09

Artie · Phil:Are you insane? What? What are you thinking you're doing in here? I came prepared. You said that these meetings are very important. Yes, they are. All the more reason to shut the fuck up.

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S3E09

Writer · Phil:'Not feasible at this juncture?' Phil, did that sentence come with the suit or did you have to buy it separately?

7.27.0
S3E09

Paula · Phil:Yeah, he got the fax, and he's got some problems. He thinks you're making fun of mute people. It is a takeoff on the piano. It does not work without a mute.

6.45.5
S3E09

Phil · Paula:Well, thanks for your help, bitch. Oh, that'd be so much hotter if you were wearing your tie.

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S3E09

Artie · Phil:Larry drives through the canyons every day at 4:00 to unwind before the show. Then why did he agree to these meetings? When he agreed to meet with you, this is what he meant

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S3E09

Artie · Phil:Car phones don't work in the canyons. Bingo. Got it?

8.27.7
S3E09

Artie · Phil:Do you need an actual piano or can you use one of those casio keyboards? I need an ornate grand piano. Good. You aim for the grand. When you get the casio, be thrilled.

7.56.8
S3E09

Phil · Artie:Arthur, do you remember the bosnian sheepdog joke? Mike wrote that. It got a huge applause break. I'm sure he'll always cherish that moment.

6.86.2
S3E09

Phil · Writer:Guys, I'm trying to finish this, OK? That's what you should do. Just tell Larry he has to use some of the jokes from last week, 'cause that was funny stuff, Phil.

6.65.8
S3E09

Paula · Phil:Go fuck yourself. Do my job? You do it, asswipe. You get on the phone and find a last-minute replacement for Steve Martin, someone willing to do a hack's sketch about the piano, which, by the way, is 6 months too late. Nice topical meter, dipshit.

7.17.0
S3E09

Phil · Artie:You want Paula fired? Yes, and I want to watch while you do it.

6.76.5
S3E09

Phil:These have been the worst 4 days of my life. I have no more friends here, I'm the only one who does any of the work, and at the end of the day, all I can think about is how I have to come back here and do it all over again tomorrow. It's a nightmare.

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S3E09

Artie · Phil:Lot more fun being the snotty little dork, wasn't it? Congratulations, son. You're the head writer. But I don't want the job. That's too damn bad.

7.46.8
S3E09

Artie · Phil:You're making 6500 bucks a week, sweetie. Doesn't that soften the blows a bit? 6500... no, no, no. I'm only making 37,500. Oh, damn it! There's been a horrible mistake. Jesus, I have to fix that right away.

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S3E12

Artie · Phil:You can't handle the truth. This. It isn't funny. This is hilarious. Ha ha. See?

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S3E13

Larry · Phil:Please, let's not show the chimp attacking my balls again. I mean, come on. / But people love that. / No. You're projecting.

6.56.3
S3E13

Larry · Phil:The parrot, uh, attacking my balls? / Yes. Pass.

6.15.8
S3E13

Phil:The pie eating scene, it has no precursor in talk show history.

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S3E14

Phil:Or maybe we say that you've discovered the network family tree and you pull out this dead little Bush or somethin'.

6.35.8
S3E17

Phil:I'm not the one with the pill problem, you self-destructive asshole.

7.27.8
S4E01

Phil · Hank:You could say that, uh, you live on rockingham, just a knife's throw from o.j.'s house. Uh, no. I don't think I could do that one. That... that... that implies o.j. Is guilty.

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S4E01

Hank · Phil:You little prick! What? You did it! You egged my car! What are you talking about?

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S4E01

Phil:I am 100% not guilty.

8.08.0
S4E01

Phil:Fuck you, Hank. Of course I did it. Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!

7.88.0
S4E03

Phil:He is supposed to be the gorton's fisherman. Without the hat, he's just a guy in a yellow slicker.

6.15.5
S4E03

Artie · Phil:Say it again. Slicker. Use it in a sentence. I like my slicker. Ha ha.

7.57.0
S4E03

Phil:Artie, I'm gonna kick somebody's ass, I swear.

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S4E04

Phil:blah, blah, blah, blah.

7.37.5
S4E04

Phil:Yeah, right. Did he show up at your high school graduation?

7.47.3
S4E05

Phil:I can't believe that Hank drilled Jeannie.

5.65.0
S4E07

Phil · Writer:You know how come I know I'm stoned? Why? To get To the other side?

5.95.3
S4E07

Phil · Damon:Hey, kids! Let's go smoke Another fatty And watch Hank's birthday.

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S4E07

Phil:We think it's Hank And ray combs eating cake.

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S4E07

Phil:We-- we were walking by. It said, 'hank's birthday.' We thought we had Missed your party Or something.

5.65.5
S4E07

Artie · Phil:I trust they're Still crispy in the milk. Actually, they're Kind of soggy.

6.96.3
S4E09

Larry · Phil:That would be your uncle? / Yeah. That's right. Ah. Mm-hmm.

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S4E09

Larry · Phil:Yeah. Listen, this doesn't have a happy ending, does it, Phil? / No. I'm sorry.

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S4E09

Phil:God, I suck at cheering people up.

6.56.3
S4E10

Phil:What, is he only taking 10% of your love?

7.37.0
S4E10

Larry · Hank · Phil:OK, Hank, give him the money. What money? Hey, there it is. What are you... all you had to do was ask. Prick.

7.07.0
S4E11

Phil:Oh, look. Bitch expo '95 is in town. Could you pick me up a tee shirt, ok?

6.36.0
S4E11

Phil · Unknown:Is your grandmother alive? What? Is she alive? Yes. Well, fuck her. I'll get to Jimmy Smits when I get to it.

6.56.7
S4E11

Larry · Phil:I'll look through this hole... Is that close enough? Is that your thumb? What is that?

6.36.2
S4E11

Larry · Phil:Is that newt gingrich on the internet? No, what she's doing to my back.

6.35.8
S4E11

Larry · Phil:I was just getting ready to turn over, and sometimes the towel flips up. I've already seen that.

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S4E12

Larry · Phil:These are mashed potatoes. And they need a little salt. Amazing, great psychic!

6.15.7
S4E13

Phil:I believe that lisp is castilian Spanish. You know, like, barcelona... gracias.

6.86.2
S4E13

Phil:I don't know. I think a cardigan makes me look too geeky. You know? I'm supposed to be a gossip, not mister rogers.

6.86.3
S4E13

Phil:Well, uh, today in your office, an older gentleman on our staff came in, took off his sweatpants and his briefs, and started sliding around on your leather sofa for about 45 minutes.

7.38.0
S4E13

Larry · Phil:Well, didn't he see you standing there? No, because I was under your desk.

7.67.5
S4E13

Phil · Larry:I could be the next Chris Elliott. I think the world is content with the current Chris Elliott.

7.47.3
S4E13

Larry · Phil:Oh, really? Really? So someone said I wear a girdle? What? No. No. I'm sorry. No, they didn't. Did they say I need to wear a girdle?

7.06.8
S4E13

Phil:Uh, gee, I can't. I'm uh, playing with my peers.

7.26.7
S4E13

Phil · Larry:I don't care about being famous or anything like that. No everyone wants to be famous. I don't, honest to God. I mean, it would be really cool if someone from pavement were to see this, but...

7.26.8
S4E13

Phil · Beverly:we rode the pony all night long. Yuck. That is disgusting. No, no, it was beautiful, and her kid only woke up once.

6.97.0
S4E14

Phil:Oh, well, Larry won't hire them. I mean, personally, I think it's terrible. I think it's unfortunate and embarrassing for all of us, but, as Larry said, in the super-secret memo, 'if it ain't white, it ain't right.'

7.27.0
S4E14

Beverly · Phil:You are such an asshole, Phil, you know that? Yeah. You know, if you're writing an article, don't use my name.

7.06.8
S4E15

Phil:Frasier goes on date. My God in heaven! Don't let me forget to set my VCR!

6.05.5
S4E15

Phil:And no jury in the world would convict you.

6.96.3
S4E15

Phil:I can look at anyone, except Victoria Principal, and guess exactly how old they are.

6.75.8
S4E16

Artie · Phil:Oh, damn it, Phil, how many times do I have to tell you, the shrimp are for guests?

6.14.8
S4E17

Phil:Hank plays an indian who sits on his own arrow.

6.15.7
S4E17

Phil:This guy's addicted to crack, and I have a scene where he can't decide whether to kill himself or to masturbate.

7.27.3
S4E17

Phil:Please come, because if you don't come, I might start doing crack again.

7.27.0
S4E17

Phil:Do you know if he's gay? Because I'd blow him.

7.57.8
S4E17

Phil:Well, since you put it that way, I guess it's not so appealing.

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S5E02

Artie · Phil:Those are the last 2 words I want to hear out of your mouth.

6.55.5
S5E03

Hank · Phil:You're not even Jewish. I am Jewish. No, you're not. I am Jewish!

5.75.8
S5E03

Phil:You complained to me because it made you look too Jewish.

7.27.3
S5E03

Larry · Phil:Somebody has been sitting in my chair. Did they also eat your porridge, too? You know, like Goldilocks and the three bears.

5.55.5
S5E04

Larry · Phil:You've got all of Hank's lines under the name 'Nurse libido.' That's his name in the sketch. Yeah, haven't I told you that you never write Hank's character name on the card? You have to write 'hank,' or he won't read it.

7.06.5
S5E04

Phil · Writer:Just because you make more money than me doesn't mean you're my boss. Are you nuts? I worked for bob hope. You should be kissing my ass that I even print your shit.

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S5E04

Writer · Phil:Then why do they pay me 1,000 times what you make, huh, jerkby? It's 5 times.

7.57.3
S5E04

Phil · Writer:Christ, this is the budget. Where did you get this? From my ass!

5.55.3
S5E04

Phil:I need to make more money. Phil! What? Oh, I'm sorry. Did I just say that out loud? I've been saying it over and over in my head, and I guess one just slipped out.

7.87.5
S5E05

Phil:Larry does all the punch lines around here.

7.16.5
S5E05

Phil · Wendy:As do I. / Something else we have in common.

7.06.3
S5E05

Phil:You guys sound like an Irish spring commercial.

6.05.8
S5E05

Phil:Larry, girls just aren't that funny.

6.36.7
S5E05

Phil:Larry doesn't do bunny jokes, OK?

6.86.3
S5E05

Phil:Well, then you can use it tonight to impress the girls at the whorehouse.

6.36.2
S5E05

Phil:They're hilarious if you're doing a Tracey Ullman sketch.

6.76.5
S5E05

Phil:Larry, girls just aren't that funny.

6.05.5
S5E05

Phil:Larry, girls just aren't that funny.

6.66.7
S5E05

Phil · Wendy:Those lame observations about shopping that you call jokes? / Oh, my God! I've never written a joke about shopping, Phil. But you wouldn't know that, because you don't read my jokes.

7.46.8
S5E05

Larry · Phil:And how come there's only one green one? / Uh, that's, um, Ed's. He's not pulling his weight.

6.86.3
S5E05

Larry · Phil · Larry:All right. Let's find the Ross Perot joke. I'll start with that. / OK. Uh... I think it's blown off of your desk. / Blown off? / What the fuck is this? Did Rip Taylor just come through here?

6.76.7
S5E05

Phil · Wendy:There were doing nothing, quicklier! / When they did nothing much more quickly.

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S5E07

Phil:Beverly, I didn't know you had a kid.

6.36.0
S5E07

Phil:I wish I knew how to do that myself.

6.95.8
S5E08

Brian · Phil:Hey, could you insult us?

6.86.3
S5E09

Phil:It's more like a concept at this point.

6.86.8
S5E09

Keith · Actress · Phil:Oh, come on. Have a cookie. So there's nothing for me to read? You want something to read? We got papers here. We got everything.

6.05.7
S5E09

Phil · Beverly:Beverly, kiss my ass. You show it bare.

7.06.8
S5E10

Phil:Hey, who'd you fuck to get those?

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S5E10

Phil:He's the kind of guy that would find a way to stamp his name on all the petals.

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S5E10

Phil:His life and times, who he got to fuck. You know, the usual Hollywood bullshit tell-all.

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S5E10

Hank · Phil:Don't boxers abstain from any type of sexual activity before a big fight? Yes, because they are pussies.

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S5E11

Phil:A week... and a half.

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S5E11

Phil:it's gonna be stale by tomorrow afternoon.

6.45.5
S5E11

Phil:she tells me I make her sick.

6.46.0
S5E11

Phil:These gophers are also suspected of kidnapping farmers and subjecting them to painful medical probes.

7.16.5
S5E11

Phil · Artie:You've never thanked me before. Well, the jokes were never that good before.

7.57.0
S5E11

Hank · Phil:Here. Catch. Then the audience, in unison, shouts, 'hey, now, Hank, go fuck yourself.'

8.18.3
S5E12

Phil:all you gotta do is come back with a dick-related insult. That's it.

6.15.8
S5E12

Hank · Phil:what if the heckler's a woman? Well, same thing. You talk about her dick. Makes 'em crazy.

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S5E12

Phil:I don't come down to your job and knock the dick outta your mouth while you're trying to work.

6.46.8
S5E12

Phil:you can blow me like everyone else on table. At your table.

6.96.3
S6E01

Phil:I'm sorry. Did I forget To say now?

7.27.0
S6E04

Phil:Yeah. Well, they say If you're going to quit, You better do it Early in the day.

6.86.3
S6E04

Phil:It's about a bunch of guys In a ska band in seattle.

6.96.8
S6E04

Phil:I swear on my mother's life That I was just sick.

7.06.8
S6E06

Writer · Phil · Writer:Why is it always an asian woman? 2 birds with one stone. What does that mean?

7.06.7
S6E06

Phil:'cause I had asparagus last night.

6.96.7
S6E06

Hank · Phil:What can we do, just tie their assholes in a knot? I think that's balloon animals.

7.57.3
S6E07

Phil:I believe the word 'bad' was bandied about.

6.95.8
S6E08

Phil:You have the worse handwriting than stephen hawking.

6.35.7
S6E08

Phil · Hank:No flipping. Shut up, Phil.

6.96.3
S6E08

Hank · Phil:Really? What kind of car did Sid have? We... we never got to that.

7.36.8
S6E08

Phil · Larry Sanders:Were they, uh... were they laughing with me or were they laughing at me? Well, at you, but hilarious.

8.48.5
S6E09

Phil:Not officially.

7.47.3
S6E09

Phil:Hank, how do you ask somebody out who's seen the inside of your ass?

6.76.5
S6E09

Phil:How could you tell? Weren't you facing the other way?

7.57.3
S6E09

Phil:You know, it usually takes several years to get to that level of intimacy.

6.76.0
S6E09

Phil:I don't know. What do they wear?

6.76.0
S6E09

Phil · Dr. Monica:how you can date Hank after seeing, you know... inside? / Because I once saw him in a speedo, and I couldn't eat for a week.

6.86.5
S6E09

Phil · Monica:how you can date Hank after seeing, you know... inside? Because I once saw him in a speedo, and I couldn't eat for a week.

6.36.2
S6E09

Phil:I probably thought of it as a fucking tailgate party.

7.57.5
S6E10

Phil:Yeah, I was up till 4:00 in the morning fucking my brains out.

6.77.0
S6E10

Phil:What is it, some gay holiday? Gay groundhog day?

6.86.0
S6E10

Phil:You know, on my way into work I figured out what the faggiest car you could drive is. A rose parade float.

7.36.8
S6E10

Brian · Phil:I drive a saturn. / I stand corrected.

7.47.0
S6E10

Brian · Phil:Uh, shouldn't you be working on the monologue, Phil? / This is the monologue.

7.86.8
S6E10

Phil:You know how you can tell you're gay? It's when you lean over and you see 4 balls.

5.55.0
S6E10

Phil:Gay people makes really dramatic exits... A walk to the door... A graceful pivot... One last look of contempt... And slam!

6.76.7
S6E10

Brian · Phil:You're a real jerk. / Nice slam!

6.76.0
S6E10

Phil:[Straining] We are great.

6.56.3
S6E10

Phil:[Straining] We are great.

6.05.5
S6E10

Brian · Phil:Phil, do you like my outfit? / Yes, I do. / Isn't it fetching? / Yeah, that's-- that's not the word I'm looking for.

7.47.2
S6E10

Phil:What, did you get that at the freddy mercury estate sale?

6.36.0
S6E10

Phil · Artie · Beverly:That's my joke. / He's a fucking asshole. / Absolutely.

6.96.8
S6E10

Phil:Did you see what he was wearing? This is entrapment!

7.26.8
S6E10

Artie · Phil · Artie:You know who runs this town? / The jews. / No. The gay jews.

6.66.3
S6E10

Phil:And I'm gonna be blackballed by the gay jews.

6.96.5
S6E11

Phil · Larry:I have this buddy Ray... I could take the letters that just spell his name, and then I could put them on the lawn of his house

6.96.7
S6E12

Phil · Artie:Phil considering Hank's $300/week job with no benefits

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