Over on Twitter they’re talking about
#Signs A Person Can’t Cook,
including the photograph above.
Check it out, but some of you may think
they’re talking about you.

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.

Redredpei, who posted this video to YouTube, applauded this driver’s “bold resistance to authority,” but ComedyGuys.com reminds you not to drive like this.

Consumer Reports is keeping an eye on gas prices nationwide, and on April 23rd they had some good news for all of us who are on the road.

Well, mildly good news, anyway.

Though the price-per-gallon is still higher than it’s been in a few years, it does seem to be leveling off somewhat. Across the USA last week, gas prices actually decreased by $.01 per gallon.

Last Thursday, AAA Texas reported that the average price per gallon at Texas pumps declined 3 cents, to settle at $3.80.

The two most immediate ways you can lower your own gasoline cost are by paying less for the gasoline you put in your tank, and by making changes to the way you drive in order to use less gasoline to get from place to place.

SPEND LESS TO FILL YOUR TANK
by using the website Texas Gas Prices which monitors the current prices at stations across the state. Enter your ZIP code, and the site will tell you the lowest prices-per-gallon in your immediate area.

For more money-saving information, check out these other items from Consumer Reports:

• CR Guide to Fuel Economy
• How to Get the Best Gas Mileage
• Where to Find the Cheapest Gas

IMPROVE YOUR DRIVING’S FUEL EFFICIENCY
by making some changes to driving habits that are causing you to burn more gas than is necessary.

It’s easy to  find some useful advice about this online from sources such the California Energy Commision and even the Johnson Brothers Ford dealership in Temple, Texas.

A site called Open Travel Info even offers an impressive list of 29 driving tips to save you gasoline and money.

Ever wondered why iceberg lettuce is called “iceberg lettuce”?

Mark Holland on Twitter has a theory.

ComedyGuys.com sends a birthday shoutout to Cedric the Entertainer.

Cedric Antonio Kyles is a son of the “Show Me” State, born in 1964 in Jefferson City, Missouri, and growing up in Carruthersville and later Berkeley, in the northeast suburbs of St. Louis.

Though he has moved on to television programs like The Steve Harvey Show and movies like Barbershop, Be Cool, and Spike Lee‘s The Original Kings of Comedy, Cedric keeps in touch with his neighborhood. Every year, his Cedric the Entertainer Charitable Foundation Inc. awards a scholarship to one senior graduating from Berkeley High School.

Here’s a clip of Cedric the Entertainer doing what he does best: making people laugh. This clip is from an appearance on The George Lopez Show, and though Cedric has had to tone the language down for network television, he still proves that he deserves his stage name.

Last week, a businessman from Baltimore County, Maryland achieved a level of Internet fame.

At first, Lenny B Robinson was getting this attention this was because police near Washington, DC, pulled him over in his Lamborghini Batmobile for not having the road-proper plates and found him inside in a Batman costume.

This made him the butt of jokes for a couple of days as even talk show host Jimmy Fallon took a stab at him in a monologue.

But following some coverage in the Washington Post – including a published interview, it became clear that Robinson isn’t just another crazy fan in a costume.

Though he’s spent many hours and thousands of dollars on his costume, his car, and other Batman paraphanalia like many an over-eager fan, it’s what Robinson DOES as Batman that makes him truly heroic: instead of being photographed with fans at comic book conventions (or battling super villians), the Maryland man visits the children’s wards of area hospitals.

Here you can see the video clip that started all this attention. And you can see for yourself that, contrary to rumors, he was not pulled over because the Batmobile lost a wheel.

Story found via Car Gurus Blog

Happy Birthday today to Eric Idle, born in 1943 and one-sixth of the internationally famous Monty Python’s Flying Circus which has either been making people laugh or shake their heads in confusion since 1969.

(Just for the record, the ones laughing are the smarter ones.)

But his career didn’t start and stop with a five-year run on a BBC television program. He is also created and wrote the series Rutland Weekend Television,  which gave rise to The Rutles, a Beatles parody band Idle created twith Neil Innes. Then came their movie, The Rutles: All You Need is Cash, which is a huge favorite of our own Terry Yates.

In the years since The Rutles, Eric Idle has also appeared in several films and stage shows, and published at least two novels. But he’s best when you can see him in action. This clip is a compilation of some of his work from Monty Python.

Nudge, nudge, say no more.

What if motorcyclists were as oblivious to others are many drivers are to them?

What makes driving so dangerous for motorcyclists — aside from the riders who confuse showing off with riding responsibly — is that their smaller size makes them harder to see. Which is why its so important for drivers in “four-wheelers” to be more careful about looking for them.

When your looking around, let your gaze linger a bit longer in each direction, long enough to see the motorcycle’s movement even if the cycle itself got lost in the background.

And expect to see motorcycles every where you look. This will re-train your brain to actually look for them, instead of noticing only pedestrians and other cars. If you’re expecting a motorcycle all the time, they can never take you by surprise.

Finally, make things quieter inside your car. One reason for making motorcycles louder than necessary is for safety: since they’re harder to see, they should be easier to hear. Your ears can often help you detect them better than your eyes can, but not if your phone, music, or conversation makes it impossible to hear anything else.

Comedy Guys Defensive Driving is making a couple of changes to our driving safety classes at the AA China Super Buffet in Burleson.

First, the twice-monthly classes will be held every Saturday at 10am, beginning the first weekend in April. This gives Burleson drivers twice as many opportunities to get their speeding tickets dismissed while enjoying a funny defensive driving class the way only ComedyGuys.com can do it.

Secondly, we have a new instructor teaching the Burleson classes. Gene McGuire, who for years taught our Saturday classes in Carrollton, has moved southward and will be teaching the Saturday classes in Burleson now. Drivers in all the suburbs south of Fort Worth can now find out for themselves why Gene was so popular with drivers from Carrollton, Lewisville, Frisco, and the Colony.

In our @ComedyGuys Twitter timeline was this photo of a variable speed limit from @GuiltlessNick.

If this is funny to you, then we get it too. If you find it sexist and offensive, then please know that we share your outrage.

Comedy Guys Defensive Driving. All things to all people who might pay for our services. 

Seriously though, I wish I knew where this photo was taken, because I wonder what government had the chutzpah, if indeed this is an actual government sign.

On Twitter, Dana Gould showed us this video called Planet of the Apes Dance Party.

Watch it for some fun, but be warned: It’s a madhouse! A MADHOUSE!

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.

All these years, and I can’t believe that the Comedy Guys blog has never made an Aggie joke. After all, Aggie jokes are the most Texan of all jokes.

Maybe this is a good start toward making up this deficit:

And before the many A&M students and former students out there get mad at us for being partisan, I should point out that among the Comedy Guys we have exactly one alumni of t.u. So if you must be mad at someone, be mad at him.

Now that I think about it, why are there so many Aggie jokes but I’ve never heard a Longhorn joke? Surely, there must be some out there somewhere.

On Twitter today, @thejustinbenson introduced us to this photo which he called “worst driver award.”

Yeah, that seems like a good name for it.

Incidentally, this guy is one of the way-too-many reasons we have a blog category called “Uh, don’t do this.”

Discussing this in the Comedy Guys office, we’ve decided that this guy
hit the concrete block holding the light pole because there was
literally nothing else to hit in the parking lot. If only there’d
been a Scion or two, that light pole would still be standing.

If you’re not following @ComedyGuys on Twitter yet, you’re missing out on some funny stuff.

I just saw one Toyota Highlander drive another off of the road because, of course, there can be only one.

The wife spend three hours yesterday getting our windows perfectly spotless. She’s not a clean freak; she just really hates birds.

Imagine how crowded the parking lot at the Hotel California must be by now!

I wish I didn’t snore so loudly. I’ve lost so many jobs because of it.

When someone tells me a lame joke, I say “You should totally tweet that!” Then while they’re tweeting, I can make my escape.

Several of our instructors are tweeting too, so you can even follow that guy who taught your defensive driving class.

• @GaryMurray2357 teaches defensive driving classes in Mesquite and literally wrote the book on defensive driving, as far as Comedy Guys is concerned.
• @TheGeneMcGuire teaches defensive driving classes in Burleson and Carrollton.
• @TerryYates1 teaches defensive driving classes in Dallas and Plano.
• @TomLenaghen teaches defensive driving classes in Garland, Richardson, and Carrollton.