<P> Handey is also credited with creating Toonces the Driving Cat, the cat who could drive a car, although not very well . The recurring skit originated in 1989 with Steve Martin and Victoria Jackson as the crash - prone kitten's owners . In 1992 NBC aired a half - hour Toonces special . Handey, who owned a real cat by the same name, once said he could not remember exactly how he dreamed up the premise . He said, "It was just one of those free association ideas you write down and look at later and think,' Maybe ."' </P> <P> In early April 2008, Handey published his first collection of magazine humor pieces, "What I'd Say to the Martians and Other Veiled Threats". Associated Press critic Jake Coyle wrote, "With absurdist musings such as these, Handey has established himself as the strangest of birds: a famous comedian whose platform is not the stage or screen, but the page ." Handey subsequently became a regular contributor to The New Yorker Shouts and Murmurs section . </P> <P> On July 16, 2013 Handey's first novel, The Stench of Honolulu, was released . </P> <P> Handey was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1949 . His family later moved to El Paso, Texas, where Handey attended Eastwood High School (where he was editor of Sabre, the school newspaper) and the University of Texas at El Paso . </P>

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