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Defensive driving itself dates back to 1964 and the development of the National Safety Council’s Driver Improvement Program. But it wasn’t until the 1980s that Texas approved of drivers taking a state-approved driving safety course to get speeding tickets off of their driving records. In those days, all such classes were taught by uniformed officers of the Dept. of Public Safety. They were well informed but they weren’t very entertaining.

Texas defensive driving classes in the 1980s were eight hours long, and the subject matter could turn them into eight very long hours. As the decade ended, the classes were shortened by a couple of hours.

And schools began to hire comedians and entertainers to teach the classes, both to reduce the tedium and to help students learn more.
Our founder, Mark Cooper, puts it this way: “People learn more when they’re not snoring.”

In 1990 Mark himself began teaching defensive driving for Affiliated Driving Schools. After about a year and half, Mark Cooper began his own school, Metroplex Defensive Driving. Over the next few years Metroplex Defensive Driving school grew into the largest and busiest driving safety schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

But no matter how busy Comedy Guys became, we remained at heart exactly what our students saw then and still see today: one instructor connecting with a room full of people with speeding tickets in their hands, covering all the required information to make them safer drivers AND making the experience as funny and entertaining as possible.