Carlos Mencia is a joke thief

[Borosai]

you just offended 20 different comics

uhhhhhh...what I meant to say was his delivery sucks

[Horry For 3!]

hahaha he isn't even mexican

[fraga]

He used to be funny...at first...but he hasn't changed....he hasn't grown in his material...he still says the same crap...it's just old already...

[Popeye]

Me thinks Carlos musk be pretty good, sinck he sells out every
time he comes to SA.

Carlos must eats his Spinach.

[Duff McCartney]

I remember my cousin told me that Mencia came to SA one time after the Spurs beat the Lakers in 03. He mentioned something about them and they booed his Lakers nonsense. Then he went off on this diatribe about the Lakers and Spurs and how the Spurs should be classy winners and not sore losers.

Basically everyone booed him off the stage because his set was cut short.

[AlamoSpursFan]

Mencia is a Lakers fan, but he's a regular guest on Dudley and Bob and I have heard him say good things about the Spurs on more than one occasion.

[Hooters Girl]

uhhhhhh...what I meant to say was his delivery sucks

Is that why Manny didn't tip him?

[TheUnknownComic]

Comics steal jokes all the time. , how many of us have heard a good joke at a party and can't wait to tell it at the next party?

[Dan Rather]

But did they have to pay 40.00 dollars a ticket to hear our jokes?

[MaNuMaNiAc]

I actually never liked Mencia, to begin with, but this guy doesn't strike me as being very bright either (the Joe Rogan guy)

That Carlos Mencia is a bit roo full of himself what a jackass!

[ZStomp]

I was a 'fan' of Mecia years ago...then I saw him live.



Didn't like it at all.

No thanks.

[nkdlunch]

white people need to realize Mencia is not a funny Mexican, he's a in wannabe who tries to act mexican on stage.

[PM5K]

Mencia is Mexican, his mother is Mexican (Hence the name Mencia) and his real name is Ned Mencia, not Ned Holness as some people have mentioned.

Also, do you really think white people even differentiate between a guy born in Central American (Honduras) and a Mexican from Mexico?

I for one actually like the idea that someone would try to be MORE Mexican, we've come a long way from times when guys had to change their name from Valenzuela to Valens to be LESS Mexican...

A lot of comics say other comedians have stolen their material, that's what happens when you use unoriginal material like how many Mexicans you can fit in a car.

Carlos can be pretty unoriginal when he makes racial jokes, but his non race jokes, though sometimes few and far between are actually pretty funny...

[Angry Midget]

hey asshat! you done tossing his salad yet?

[MaNuMaNiAc]

Mencia is Mexican, his mother is Mexican (Hence the name Mencia) and his real name is Ned Mencia, not Ned Holness as some people have mentioned.

Also, do you really think white people even differentiate between a guy born in Central American (Honduras) and a Mexican from Mexico?

I for one actually like the idea that someone would try to be MORE Mexican, we've come a long way from times when guys had to change their name from Valenzuela to Valens to be LESS Mexican...

A lot of comics say other comedians have stolen their material, that's what happens when you use unoriginal material like how many Mexicans you can fit in a car.

Carlos can be pretty unoriginal when he makes racial jokes, but his non race jokes, though sometimes few and far between are actually pretty funny...

I guess you've outsmarted the people at IMDB huh? his mothers last name is Mencia, and SHE is Mexican, his fathers last name is Holnes and he is Honduran. So you see, he IS actually Holnes

[Spurminator]

I'm not a fan of Mencia, and it's not even because of the material... His delivery is so over-the-top it takes all of the humor away. It's like "Laugh at me or I'll YELL LOUDER!"

He did a routine at a convention I attended, and it was pretty funny but only because there were a lot of old people in the room who were very uncomfortable. Even then, though, I felt like I had heard most of the material before.

Still, while I completely believe Rogan's accusations, I'd like to see some form of proof that his jokes are stolen, with specifics and sources. Probably too much to ask for but it would be more damning than a simple rant.

[PM5K]

I guess you've outsmarted the people at IMDB huh? his mothers last name is Mencia, and SHE is Mexican, his fathers last name is Holnes and he is Honduran. So you see, he IS actually Holnes

Regardless, he's Mexican which is the real issue, changing your name to sound more Mexican is one thing, but trying to be something your not is something else alltogether.

Yes his dads name is Holness, guess what, my last name is De Leon, and my sons last name is Nombrana, chew on that one for a minute.....

His legal last name is Mencia, IMDB isn't the end all my friend....

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

Carlos has never denied his Honduran roots.

In his early material, he had a joke where no matter where he went, he was Mexican. (Except for Miami where he was Cuban and New York where he was Puerto Rican). His joke also included that when rednecks would ask where he was from, he'd say Honduras and they'd ask "what part of Mexico that was in."

I don't like his TV show...in fact, I gave it a low rating (although copy editors mistook my 1.5 stars for 2.5) in a review I did last summer.

By Joe Ruiz
Managing Editor

2 1/2 STARS
Mind of Mencia
Comedy Central
9:30 p.m. Wednesdays

As a fan of Carlos Mencia, I really had high expectations for his new Comedy Central show Mind of Mencia. What worried me, though, was his ability to transfer his style of comedy to the limits of television.

In addition, the cable channel’s attempts to catch lightning in a bottle after the success of Chappelle’s Show seemed to set up Dave’s successors for failure.

For those unfamiliar with Mencia, his abrasive, racially charged comedy can be offensive to some and hilarious to others. Along with that style of comedy comes a common-sense approach to real life.

Mencia’s show begins with a monologue, which may be funny to those who are new to the 37-year-old’s comedy. If you’ve watched a DVD or seen his act live, though, chances are you’ve heard the jokes before, and without the heavy editing they’re subjected to on Comedy Central.

The show — scheduled for 10 episodes over the summer — offers glimmers of hope in its skits. One sequence in the show’s second episode led “Desperate Gardeners” spoofs ABC’s hit show Desperate Housewives, in which a teenaged gardener is romantically involved with his employer’s wife. Predictably, Mencia talks with several real gardeners — playing up the stereotype of the immigrant who tends to the lawns of others — and asks them if they have ever had an affair with their employers.

Sure, you could see the jokes coming miles away, but the skit was still funny in satirizing the primetime soap opera.

In his first episode, Mencia parodies commercials of decidedly American businesses in Iraq. Again, you’ve heard these before if you’ve seen his act.

The funniest bits on the show seem to come from his “man on the street”-style skits, except for the third show’s “Last White Man In the Barrio”; it just wasn’t funny. The skit focused on a white, 40-something stoner and his wife’s choice to stay in a predominately Hispanic neighborhood. The jokes felt forced and didn’t allow the natural humor of an incident like that to develop.

What’s hurting the show is that Mencia is forced to tone down his humor to meet cable television standards, and that struggle comes through the television to his dedicated audience.

For those people who wish to hear Mencia’s uncensored comedy — and aren’t easily offended — you would be better served by visiting CarlosMencia.com or picking up one of his multiple DVDs.

http://star.txstate.edu/current/article.php?aid=686

As with almost all comics, though, it's best to see them live. You get the best material...since I've seen Carlos live numerous times, to me, he's funny. I know that whenever he's in town, Gina and I always try to get there.

I did see from Mouse's new MySpace that Joe Rogan has some sets in Austin in May...if I were going to be in town at that time, I'd go. I've been able to listen to comics I had never heard before (not including Rogan in that since I'd heard him and liked him before) since I got Sirius. It's a great way to listen to comics you might not had heard before (I would say XM probably has that same feel, too).

[MoSpur]

I cannot stand Mencia. He is annoying. His act is very weak. Not funny at all. Comedy Central got disperate when Chappelle left. Mind of Mencia won't last that long.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

I cannot stand Mencia. He is annoying. His act is very weak. Not funny at all. Comedy Central got disperate when Chappelle left. Mind of Mencia won't last that long.

I'm not disagreeing with you on the second point.

The problem with the show is that the skits (especially the in-studio ones) are extensions of his jokes and they only go so far.

If you've ever heard Carlos, you heard the skits before they were skits...that's one of the major things sinking the show.

I wish him all the luck, he's always been very gracious and I got to just talk with him for about 10 minutes one time he was here. Very nice guy, very gracious for the growing success (this was one of his last live stops in SA before MoM premiered, in fact, he told his audience that it'd be a while before he came back since the show was in development).

My best recordings of Carlos are the ones I got from the shows I was at.

As I said in my review up there...Comedy Central's attempt to catch lightning in a bottle twice is just that.

[Mixability]

If you've ever heard Carlos, you heard the skits before they were skits...that's one of the major things sinking the show.

that happened with the George Lopez "Jack in the Box" episode for me.

[Johnny_Blaze_47]

that happened with the George Lopez "Jack in the Box" episode for me.

I'm no TV executive and I'm certainly not a professional comic, but I bet that happens to everybody.

It's sad that the busines of TV won't let comics with their own shows continue to use the talent that got them there to develop new and funny rather than what's already in the repetoire.

[mouse]

Was talking to another comic on Facebook when this post showed up on a Google search.

[Blake]

Lol mouse.

Pretty much all comics poach material. It's all about delivery

[DisAsTerBot]

Was talking to another comic on Facebook when this post showed up on a Google search.

thank god you're back. fabbs won't stop asking about you. we've all suffered for it.