When you were a kid, were you ever the victim of a prolonged game of Keep Away?
Because that’s what this looks like. A truck driver on a highway in China’s Shadong province is determined to avoid being pulled over for as long as possible. His technique is simple: what’s amazing about it is that he’s able to keep going for as long as he does, even after other cars get in the way.
The Comedy Guys like to recognize the birthdays of the greats of comedy, and March 16 is the birthday of two famous American comedians, king of the one-liners Henny Youngman and madcap “King of Comedy” Jerry Lewis.
Henny Youngman, comedian and violinist, was born in England in 1906 and relocated to New York City with his family while still very young. One night at a club where he was appearing with his jazz band, he was asked to fill in when the regular comedian didn’t show up. His comedy style was rapid-fire but inoffensive, delivering one laugh after another like a comedy machine gun. Younger comics Mitch Hedberg and Larry the Cable Guy have both cited Youngman as influencing their style.
Here you can see him on John Byner‘s television show BIZARRE in the late 1980s, doing what he did best.
Youngman died in February 1998.
Jerry Lewis, born in 1926, became half of the famous comedy team of Martin and Lewis when he was only twenty years old, and he hasn’t stopped since. He is best known for his slapstick humor and literally playing the fool in films and on television, nightclub stages, and radio. In this clip you can see his surprise reunion with Dean Martin.
You might recognize the guy who arranges the reunion, too.
Feeling nostalgic? Here’s a Chevrolet safe driving video from 1954, featuring actress Gale Storm and her real-life husband and three sons taking what the video calls “that wonderful American institution of going new places and doing new things.” Assuming, I guess, that no one in other countries ever takes vacations.
Gale Storm, by the way, was a Texas girl. Born in Bloomington in Victoria County, the popular singer and actress starred in two television series in the 1950s, making her a contemporary of Lucille Ball.
There’s a lot in this short film that seems naive and nostalgic now — the utter lack of passenger safety, for example — but much of the travel advice is still useful to anyone making a road trip, either with or without the family.
At the very least, you’ll wish that today’s infomercials were this sweet.
Admittedly, Comedy Guys Defensive Driving is something of a boy’s club. Our ratio of male employees to female is pretty overwhelming, and that’s even including that one “person” we’re not sure about.
So our attitude toward Valentine’s Day leans more toward mocking it than making it special.
And according to our @ComedyGuys Twitter feed, we’re not alone in this. For days now, Twitter has been the scene of all kinds of jokes about Valentine’s Day and everything that comes with it. We took some of the better jokes that were SFW enough to suit us and turned them into the second installment of our video series Meanwhile on Twitter.
Check them out here. If you’re a twit too, you may find some funny new accounts to follow.
Today, comic actor John Belushi would have been 63 years old. Except that he’s not because he didn’t live that long. He died in March of 1982, at the age of 33. But instead of dwelling on his death, let’s just remember how funny he was.
With this sequence from THE BLUES BROTHERS, one cool movie that features two of the best chase scenes in movie history.
Someone has made this really cool and funny compilation of clips from commercials and infomercials, people doing one wrong thing after another. Check it out.
Normally I wouldn’t take suggestions from Dr. Horrible, but this is very cool, especially for anyone who loves model trains. If I ever get across the Atlantic to see the original Legoland, this tiny place is going to be my next stop.
Because it’s Black Friday, here’s a bit of black humor.
This time, it’s a bit of animated fun from Cyanide and Happiness, a webcomic hosted on Explosm.net and published daily since January 26th 2005.
Cyanide and Happiness began as a series of comics drawn by a 16-year-old Kris Wilson. Kris shared his comics with the forum of Stickdeath.com, and eventually the webmasters of Sticksuicide — Matt Melvin, Rob DenBleyker and Dave McElfatrick — joined forces with Kris to form Explosm.net. Since then Cyanide and Happiness has been written by these four, with occasional guest writers.
Enjoy the cartoon, and have a safe and happy holiday weekend.
Every summer the town of Estes, Colorado is invaded by frisky male elk who wander into town to battle each other for the right to get with the females who graze on the town’s golf courses.
Because it’s Black Friday, here’s a bit of black humor.
