‘Bob and Tom’ buddy Geechy Guy takes one-liners across the country

“A police officer tried to pull me over for not having a rear-view mirror, but I didn’t see him.”

Remember when one-liners like that were the norm? If so, Geechy Guy is your kind of comedian.

“I guess I’ve always been pretty much a joke joke, one-liner one-liner guy, kind of old school,” he said. “Well, more middle school.

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“I’ve just always been a fan of that kind of humor. I just do what makes me laugh.”

That’s been the comedian’s credo since he turned professional in the late 1980s. Geechy Guy has been particularly busy doing that in 2007, as he’s been on the road with the “Every Station in the Nation” Comedy Jam. The tour comes Friday to Modesto.

The stations in question air radio’s syndicated “Bob and Tom Show.” Being a friend of the Indianapolis-based program has proven to be a lucrative career move for several comedians, as the show routinely sponsors national tours featuring recurring guests.

Geechy Guy first came to the attention of co-host Bob Kevoian in 1989 when he was performing as an opening act. This year, he has been keeping a road diary of sorts, visiting areas that carry “The Bob & Tom Show” and rehashing his experiences on air.

“This whole year with the tour has been great,” he said. “People say all the time that it must be really hard, but I usually do 150 shows a year. I just never had a name for it until now.”

A former magician and juggler, Geechy Guy settled on stand-up at the ripe age of 19, performing in competitions in San Francisco and Los Angeles and landing a spot on “Star Search.” Even in the competitive comedy environment of Southern California, Geechy Guy was determined to stick with it.

“The difference was I didn’t have a really good job to quit,” he said. “Tim Allen and I started around the same time, but he had a $30,000-a-year job; I was making 150 bucks a week delivering pizzas.”

The career has since taken Guy to Las Vegas, Reno, a two-year stretch of living in the Virgin Islands while performing on cruise ships, and now to the heartland of Kansas City, Mo.

While many stand-up comics rely on long stories and observations for their humor, Geechy Guy is still the king of the one liners. He holds the world record for telling 676 jokes in one hour. That’s roughly 11 jokes a minute, for those with nothing better to do than keep score.

“It’s not so much of a ’sit down and come up with jokes.’ It’s just the way my mind works and thinks,” Guy said. “Over 20-plus years I’ve learned to hone it, I’ll see a sign on the road or see something on TV or something in the news and come up with a joke about it.”