He performed standup comedy on television and was a series regular on the sketch comedy show "Not Quite Friday Night". He received the National Vita Award for Comedy for the role of Maloom in the play "Heel Against the Head", once again alongside Bill Flynn and actor/playwright Paul Slabolepszy. Emery has also performed his own one-man plays, "Thin Man Talking" and "The Great Glendini". For the latter, he recorded a jazz standards album, "Standard Ease". He acted alongside the late Bill Flynn for a third and final time, playing Bernard to Flynn's Willy Loman in the award-winning Baxter Theatre production of "Death of a Salesman".