Comedian's Top 5 Carmageddon Tips: Texting, Drinking, Xanax

July 16, 2011 — -- intro: Wondering how to cope with Carmageddon, the catastrophe that descends on Los Angeles this weekend as an arterial 10-mile stretch of the 405 freeway shuts down for an unprecedented 53-hours?

Greg Proops has some suggestions. The comedian best known from "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and "Chelsea Lately" faces the madness Saturday when he drives 45 miles from his L.A. home to a gig in Westlake Village, Calif.

"It's supposed to be an hour's drive. it might be anywhere between an hour and the life cycle of a mayfly," he told ABCNews.com. "I looked at the map, and I just broke down and cried. Because I'm a man."

See Proops' survival strategies below. And remember, he's just kidding.