Mencia Mania Starts Here! (A Carlos Mencia Primer)
Well, folks, it’s that very special time again, a time I look forward to all year. I tremble with anticipation for this event, in fact, because it’s just so magical it makes Christmas morning look like violent prison rape. What event am I talking about? Is it Mother’s Day? No, that was last week. Is it Free Iced Coffee Day at Dunkin Donuts? No, that was yesterday. Is it Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness’s birthday? Nope, that’s tomorrow. Is it the “DOB’s Abs Are Fantastic” Celebration? No, that is a year-long event. What I’m talking about is better than all of those things combined.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Carlos Mencia is back.
I know, I know. You were worried for a while when you didn’t see any new episodes of his show, Mind of Mencia, for a few months. “Was Carlos cancelled?,” you probably wondered. “Where will I get my fresh, edgy, fredgy comedy?” But he’s here. Don’t worry. Not only will Mind of Mencia be back May 21st, but Carlos has a stand-up special on Comedy Central on Sunday in case, like me, you just can’t wait until tomorrow to get your Mencia fix.
Me? I’m giddy as a schoolgirl, positively bursting at the crotch with anticipation. I’ve been personally lobbying for Mencia Mayhem to replace the Weather Channel for the past three years now. 24 hours of just Mencia and his unique catalogue of jokes, (the one about how Mexicans are infamous for laziness, etc). Fuck weather. Mencia all day every day. That’s the kind of America I want to live in.
Still, I recognize that Carlos Mencia might not be for everyone. His comedy is what we in the biz call “High Brow,” (rhymes with “eyebrow”). Mencia’s comedy is a little more intellectual than your Seinfeld’s and your Pryor’s and your Goldthwait’s. It’s cerebral. You might not laugh every minute of his standup, or even once, but that’s because Carlos likes to challenge his audience and make them think. All too often I’ve watched helplessly while some of Mencia’s golden punchlines sail gently above the heads of the masses, lost on them forever. They may never know how funny it is to hear Carlos tell them the one about how lazy the Mexicans are, (hint: very). They’ll just have to trust that Carlos Mencia is hilarious, despite all existing evidence to the contrary.
Well, fear not, sweet readers. I feel it is my duty as a full-fledged Mencia Maniac, (Meniac, lol), to explain to you, the Entire Planet, why exactly Carlos Mencia is funny. I’ll be doing my part to spread his humor to the world. It’s the least I can do for him; he’s filled my life with so much joy and laughter I just might poop.
So, sit back and relax while I countdown the four reasons why Carlos Mencia is very funny, (even though you don’t necessarily laugh whenever you watch him perform comedy).
The Complex and Cerebral Comedy of Carlos Clarified
4. He’s Edgy
You might not think so, but his edginess is detailed right on his website, so like it or not, it’s true. If you check out the description of Mind of Mencia over on Comedy Central, you’d see that Carlos “takes no prisoners, and… mercilessly skewers the current and the cultural, whether in the studio, in the audience, out on the street, or in commercial parodies.” He’s dangerous, folks, that’s for sure. And fearless. He’s like a terrorist, but with words, (words like, for example, ‘beaner’), and he’s unafraid to tackle any issue, whether it’s “race relations,” “racial stereotypes,” “immigration,” or the “subtle difference between the way white people and non-white people dance.” See? He’s got the whole world covered. No comedic stone is left unturned. Mencia’s going to skewer everyone from “Mexicans (who he thinks are lazy)” all the way to “other Mexicans who can be seen doing things that may not necessarily be considered productive.”
3. He’s You
Now, perhaps you’ve watched Mencia’s show, (Mind of Mencia), or maybe one of his stand up specials and perhaps you thought “This isn’t clever, he’s just making the same tired racist jokes over and over again and liberally seasoning his act with the word ‘beaner.’ And sweating. He is really sweating. A lot.” But you’d be wrong. See, Carlos specifically tells us that he’s just saying what everyone else is afraid to say. According to his bio on Comedy Central, he “represents the internal voice inside us and demands we admit to thinking what he says out loud.” Admit it, you loud, sweaty bastards! You know that time Mencia told that joke about Mexican people being lazy? It turns out you were always thinking that, but you were just afraid to say it. See, it wasn’t Carlos Mencia who said “I want Julio to hop the border and cut my grass” it was You. You said that, which makes it edgy. And funny. Laughing yet? I can see this is all very tough for you to wrap your brain around. Let’s move on.
2. He Often Makes Fun of Retarded People
Sure, any old comedian can take the tedious minutiae of everyday life and put a clever, unique and hilarious spin on it, but it takes a real comedic hero to make fun of retarded people. Frankly, I think we’re all pretty much in agreement over the fact that the mentally disabled have had it too good for too long, and it’s about time Carlos Mencia finally put them in their place. “Dee dee dee” is the inventive phrase that you hear all the cool kids saying these days. Conceived by Carlos (?), the phrase represents mentally challenged and stupid people because…because stupid people say ‘dee dee dee’ a lot, I guess? Or because he once heard a retarded person or…something. I don’t know. There’s a song that goes along with it. It’s complicated. Regardless of why he came up with it or what it means or why it took the nation by storm, the point is, he came up with it. (Probably.)
If Shakespeare was alive today, (and, according to some theories I’ve been kicking around, he is), and, further, if he was an ethnic comedian instead of a (zombie) playwright, you can bet your ass that he’d be wishing that he was the first one to think of saying “dee dee dee” when he was making fun of retarded people. Considered by most historians as the “Elizabethan Carlos Mencia,” Ole’ Bill Shakespeare was a pioneer in the field of cruelly mocking retarded people, and you can put that shit on a t-shirt. His “dee dee dee”’s were a little more involved and generally in iambic pentameter, but the sentiments were the same.
1. He’s the Miles Davis of Comedy
Here is, perhaps, the most important aspect of Carlos Mencia and his comedy. It’s the reason most people don’t “get” Carlos. Get ready, white folks, because I’m about to rock your world. See, Dave Chappelle once did a skit to show the world what it would be like if there was a black president.
And it was funny in a “makes you laugh often” sort of way, which is fine if that’s what you’re looking for in a comedy. But Carlos Mencia opted to take the road less traveled by doing exactly what Dave Chappelle did several years later, but with a twist: Mencia was going to show the world what it would be like to have a black president, but he was going to do so without being funny or relevant.
See? He’s a comedian who didn’t tell a single joke. Not once.
If you feel like there’s a bunch of gross, warm goo inside your skull, it’s because Carlos Mencia just blew your mind.
While Miles Davis was acclaimed for the notes he didn’t play, so too should Carlos be applauded for the jokes he isn’t telling.
Follow that logic and you’ll have to agree, Carlos Mencia is the funniest man on the planet.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
First, whitey!
May 16th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Pure comdey genious. Why they have not given you the deed and keys to cracked.com, I will never understand DOB. You are a a God amung mortals. A shining star, a crimson crusader who…… Uh oh……. I think I just Sharted. Damn it, I just bought these pants !!!!
May 16th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
wow. you have convinced me despite all my firm set beliefs held in every fiber of my being otherwise, that carlos mencia is indeed, “lol”.
on a side note, i agree, maybe he should be recognized for all the jokes he doesn’t tell…namely, the funny ones. or the ones that don’t involve him looking like a giant ass.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
I’m looking forward to Mencia Mania almost as much as I’m looking forward to Dane Cook Mania!
May 16th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
I’m looking forward to Mencia telling all the funny jokes that the comics who opened up for him on his stand-up special told. word for word.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
I can’t believe that someone finally agrees with me! I always thought Carlos was the best comedian out there, but i was ridiculed for it by everyone I have ever known… *sob* thank you DOB, i finally have a friend…
But on a more seroius note, that man is simply a waste of oxygen. Lewis Black is the my favorite comedian, because hes hilarious rather than retarded
May 16th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
does anyone else think that mencia hires people to kidnap people to be in his audience and force them to laugh?
because i refuse to believe that anyone would watch him, or even laugh at his ‘jokes’ willingly.
May 16th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
alright, so i’ve followed Mencia since i was a green tomato. i felt as if i were being lied to after watching his standup over here at the Arco Arena a few years ago, but didn’t understand why. over time, many of my friends claimed that Mencia was better than any of those “old has-beens, like Pryor and that other old white guy.” since i knew not of the “other old white guy,” i had to assume that this was a reference to Abraham Lincoln, whom, i agree, cannot tell a joke to save his life. (zing!) So after watching an entire season of “Mind of Mencia,” i realized that my brain had not only turned to a warm goo with the consistency of saliva from a dog’s mouth, but it also smelled a lot like tacos, which brings me to my next point: i think i’m becoming a “beaner.” i suddenly have an interest in sleeping by a cactus… thats what “beaners” do, right? All the people i’ve known as “beaners” for all these years, the people who sold strawberries on the corner, plowed fields for a couple nickels, filled sacks with grapes to get enough pay to feed themselves for a week, own businesses and run an economy dependent on their labor, what do we call them? it can’t be “beaners,” because they’re “lazy!”Oh, Mencia, how you have truly captured the spirit of racis…. wait a second…
May 16th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
God bless you DOB for taking this fuck to task. He steals jokes, he isn’t funny, and even the fans of Larry the Cable Guy can look down their noses at his fans. This is a great article.
The only thing I think isn’t accurate is that Carlos (Ned) doesn’t actually make fun of retarded people. Saying “dee dee dee” is his way of calling someone retarded, but as I recall his material doesn’t attack those people.
Still fuck that guy and his “comedy”. He sucks and isn’t funny.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Mencia has succeeded in comic genius where Chappelle failed. Chappelle whines about not being willing to sell out his integrity as an original comic. He was too good to do what his bosses at Comedy Central (who are known for fostering growth in comics like the great Larry the Cable Guy) requested. He was all hung up on trivialities like “originality” and “tactical delivery” and couldn’t see what makes the cut in this world of brutally high comic standards. Mencia, however, has swallowed his pride and listened to his handlers and delivers the kind of homogenized and diluted routines we demand in America. This is not to say that he is unoriginal. Only HIS mind, the Mind of Mencia, could deliver such brutally perfect musings on our collective uber-racism. Like you point out, DOB, I never realized how racist I was until this god of comedy pointed it out. Thank you for this tribute. I would love to see it made into a daily thing, like the “nooner”. Call it “Menciarrhea”.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Carlos Mencia has said one or two funny things in his comedy career because I distinctly remember laughing at him or rather with him, at least once or twice. I don’t remember what they were but I’m positive that it did happen.
Also Mexicans aren’t lazy the ones that do my yard bust their ass. I even fired my two sons
from doing the yard work because the Mexicans worked harder, did a better job and were cheaper. I liked them so much that when the INS came looking for them I worked a deal to send my sons back to Mexico instead of Roberto and Jesus who are much more appreciative
to be living here than my sons ever were.
I told my sons that if they could get back here in two weeks time they could have the privilege of sharing their rooms with my new favorite sons glenRoberto42 and Jesusdoor42.
I like being called El Jefe too.
A trip like that will will toughen the little pansies up.
Great article Dan Dan the super ab man.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
carlos is terrible. good call
May 16th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
I know this comment is defending Mencia, which immediately invalidates its existence, but I am forced to mention that his black president skit was “what white people think a black president would be like”. It makes it look like the great DOB did too little research. And, while it fits in with your fictional, borderline-psychotic alter-ego that you would forget a difference like that, we don’t want people to lose respect for you. That would lead to rebellion.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
That Obama President ’sketch’.
Well done Carlos, you’re truly edgy in going back to the 1920s.
Anyone know any comedy clubs in Zimbabwe looking for performers?
May 16th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
@Jonathan: You picked the wrong random dead white dude, Brother. Lincoln was notorious for his ability to tell some of the funniest and filthiest jokes around and was arguably the funniest president. [The more you know.]
@Luftwaffe: You caught me. I don’t actually watch Mind of Mencia. To be fair, I maintain that I could take any Mencia clip at random, without watching it, assume that Mencia went the entire skit without making a single joke and I’d still come out the other end as right.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
I remember Carlos once asked a guy in the audience who had a pager if he was a doctor or a loser. That’s the only thing he has ever said that made me laugh. AND THEY CANCELLED STELLA! WTF!
May 16th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
@DOB: I don’t want to put your blogging abilities down any further, but I really feel the need to do so. You can tell from the little title card called “WHY ARE YOU AFRAID OF A BLACK PRESIDENT” and the opening line: “THIS is what Obama’ll be like?” (not the exact quote, I just didn’t want to have to watch the clip again) that that is the subject of the skit. I didn’t need to watch the show to figure it out. Did you just see “Carlos Mencia: President Obama” and the fuck himself in blackface and make up what it was about? I mean, if you didn’t actually watch it, just make a joke like “As I have not watched this clip, I’m assuming that…”. Otherwise, it just looks like you’re being lazy. Don’t get me wrong sir, you’ve always been hilarious, and I have several life-size posters of you on the ceiling above my bed. That’s why it hurts me deep inside to see you slip up. It makes me start to wonder if you could possibly be… human.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
really?? youre trying to draw a distinction between “what would a black president be like” and “what white people think a black president would be like”??? i lost a lot of respect for you after the first comment, and now i just realized youre retarded
May 16th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Don’t worry, Mencia joking up when rips on the mentally handicapped.
May 16th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
“…the point is, he came up with it. (Probably.)”
NICE!
May 16th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Two reasons not to watch Carlos Mencia:
1. His real name is Ned Holness.
2. He’s not funny.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I’m pretty sure Carlos Mencia was abused as a baby, and if he wasn’t then parenting has failed.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
I dunno where all this hatin on Mencia is coming from, especially when everyone is supposed to be in Mencia Mania mode! I mean the man is a genius! Do you guys remember the time when he said that white people are racist and that black people can dance better than them? Comedy genius!
I mean I don’t know where he gets all his material, I don’t think anyone would ever be able to come up with the jokes he makes.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Sorry, DOB, I tried to read your whole article. After the clip of Mencia, my brain instantly turned to goo. I am assuming it is an overload of funniness and I made a doctor’s appointment.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Hehe…Im pretty sure this dont matter much but i’m a veteran of Afghanistan And I just want to express my hate of Carlos Mencia. He basically makes me regret anything I might be fighting for. Also Bill O’ Reilly is a douchebag
May 16th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
This article was so not funny compared to Carlos Mencia than my brain turned back into solid form.
Great job, DOB.
May 16th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
Oh how I love it when Mencia makes fun of Mexicans…even though he, himself, is barely Mexican to begin with. What with him being born in Honduras to a Honduran father and all. But still, it’s funny that someone who’s probably never done an honest day’s work can make fun of hard-working “beaners” just because he’s almost, kind-of Mexican. And I love it that he is so politically incorrect and uncensored…even though everything on TV and on the internet nowadays is politically incorrect and uncensored because we as a society have learned to laugh at ourselves through satire. Yeah, we’re all just so clean-cut and polite, I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who’s outspoken and says whatever’s on their mind. But still, it’s cute that Mencia thinks of himself as the only edgy, honest person in existence. It’s adorable. But best of all, I love all his fans who defend the fact that he steals material because, quite simply, his delivery is “funnier” than that of the brilliant comedians who came before him (the ones he stole from). Seriously, look for Youtube videos that accuse Mencia of stealing and you’ll find tons of comments defending him because “it’s funnier when he does it”. There’s just so much to love about this mental giant.
May 16th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Oh, DOB, when will you cease making me laugh at the truths in life?
WHEN?!
Whatever. Point is, you’re spot on: Mencia is hardly ever funny, and his brand of “comedy” should be thrown to the backburner of 30 second beer commercials.
You know who else isn’t funny?
George Lopez.
You should expose his bullshit, too.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Some friends of mine made me sit through a Mencia stand-up special a few weeks ago; I recall staring at the tv for a solid hour with a mixture of disgust and contempt. The dude just stands there and talks shit about people in exactly the same way someone does right before getting their ass beat; nothing funny about it. I honestly felt myself thinking “I wish he was here talkin’ that shit so I could just stomp a mudhole in his ass and not have to hear him any more.” Don’t think I’d pay for a “comedy” DVD to get that feeling; I could just go to a bar.
May 16th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
I’ll be honest DOB. I think you’re funny, but I never read one of your blogs and thought “Oh my God that’s fucking great”….
Until now.
This is one of the greatest blogs ever written by a human, cyborg, animal, or ghost.
Also, I never thought that a Carlos Mencia skit could get any more infuriatingly unfunny… but I was wrong. It turns out that adding Debra Wilson to the mix actually takes his funny meter into the negatives… -8 to be exact.
May 17th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Damn, DOB–you finally found a topic that nearly every commenter agrees on! You should get the Golden Cracker Award for blogging (it’s okay for me to say Cracker, because it is edgy just like my hero Carlos Mencia).
May 17th, 2008 at 1:48 am
DOB once again you’ve proved yourself the voice of my generation. Run for Emperor of the Universe please.
May 17th, 2008 at 2:50 am
Thank you, DOB. Thank you. The first time I saw “Carlos” on tv he ended his standup by being all serious and making people “think” and the douchebag got a standing fucking ovation. Bar none he is the least funny “comedian” on record.
May 17th, 2008 at 3:52 am
God Bless you DOB. I often watch comedy central, but either change the channel or pass out from disgust when the new Mind of Mencia commercials come on. If there was a way to let you take over Mencia’s show i’d vote for it. One hannah Montana joke is better than anything Mencia could steal.
May 17th, 2008 at 5:46 am
i would rip the cancer out of my grandad’s chest just so i could beat him round the face with it.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:02 am
DOB you fantasticly abbed rascal, you made me shoot milk out of my nose. Highlarious. Now all I need is for my beaner housemaid to clean it up… But I could be waiting a while because is Mencia has convinced my honkey ass of one thing, it’s that Mexicans are lazy.
May 17th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Yeah, this is a little late, but after reading wtf’s comment I was forced to cry for several hours until I fell asleep. The two comments I posted were just a way to fulfill the needs of my OCD. I have always, and will always think Carlos Mencia is a tool with poor control of his sweat glands. I actually tried criticizing Mr. O’Brien, when he’s funnier than I will ever be. For that, I am truly sorry. By pointing out a minor error, I lost all the respect that wtf had for me.
Speaking of which, since when did anyone respect me? I mean, the only thing I’ve done on the Cracked blog is occasionally pop in to threaten random commenters, derail the conversation, and insult Glendoor. I also happen to be named after a Nazi military branch. I’m both a worthless commentor and a terrible person. In what way does that warrant respect?
May 17th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Hannah Montana and Carlos Mencia are the same person! I’ve never watched either one and don’t plan on it. Its no wonder they are both popular with adolescent boys and underage girls. I didn’t finish DOB’s blog because I assume he has never seen it either. A prophet such as HIMSELF would never stoop to the level of the vile snake-monster/orphan crusher/shitty comic
May 17th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
DOB:
I’m confused. I thought Dane Cook was the funniest guy in the world. Now I find out that there are two guys who are so funny that no one laughs because no can even understand their brilliant-ness. I guess my mom was right and I really don’t have any sense of humor after all.
Thanks for nothing.
mikeyj
May 17th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
ha ha… Mexican lazy? Well I’m mexican and I’m here rigth?
May 17th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
“Beaner, beaner, beaner, wetback” Ha, you guys aren’t laughing cause’ I’m so goddamn offensive!
May 17th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
not that this has anything to do with menstria but I felt like I should post it for you guys to see.
Hannah Montana’s Subliminal message:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeTTXnXDWcE&feature=related
But thats tame compared to the jonas brothers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo5RAWlyrJs&feature=related
May 18th, 2008 at 12:31 am
Mexican racial slurs are not funny. If you want to poke fun using racial innuendos at least do it in a creative way. Two examples of creative racial humor. 1. Hispanic Mothers and 2. Taco Trucks
May 18th, 2008 at 12:32 am
How could I forget the best one. Corona without Lime
May 18th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Dude, Miles Davis is awesome, don’t compare him to Mencia. [In terms of the whole “getting” him thing, I’m sltill not sure if I do, but at least Miles is entertaining, a major difference with Mindless Mencia.]
May 18th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
I would like to put William Howard Taft forward for consideration as ‘funniest President.’ The man was a legend of physical comedy. One time, he was unable to fit in a bathtub due to his crippling medical condition, ‘Being Too Goddamn Fat.’ Hilarious!
Also, Carlos Mencia blows. So much.
May 18th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Hey, anybody here on Cracked crazy enough to kill somebody? Because I would totally pay you money to shoot Mencia right in his chubby Mexican face.
May 18th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
How much and by when?
May 18th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
2 problems DP13, 1: this isnt /b/ 2: he’s honduran.
May 19th, 2008 at 8:43 am
Don’t hate the player, hate the game. Well, OK, hate the player if you want but it’s really not Carlos Mencia’s fault. This whole business of comedians building careers around a single theme started in the 80’s and is now out of control. In the 70’s comedians like Richard Pryor and George Carlin joked about race relations among many other topics. In the 80’s Def Comedy Jam and other specialized comedy shows aired (Rico Slam, anyone?), giving exposure to young comics who touched on these topics as well. It didn’t take long for a few unimaginative souls to realize that it’s easy to get laughs from a sympathetic audience by throwing out some choice lines like, “White people be whack,” which I actually heard a comic say (I’m omitting that comic’s race, gender, and name to keep from giving that person cheap exposure; they desperately need it these days).
So you go from Eddie Murphy, who in his movie Raw (1987) provides an admirably balanced and intelligent commentary about blacks and whites, taking shots equally at both sides, to a comic like Carlos Mencia, who shoots for cheap laughs by throwing around stereotypes. All of this is nothing new; black comics do the same, often with whites, but with other groups as well. Women comics do the same with men…find me a genuinely funny woman comic whose act is not two-thirds about men/her boyfriend (or husband but usually it’s a boyfriend). You hear the same kinds of things from asian and latino comics. You’d get it more from white comics, but mostly they’re too afraid of reprisal (see Michael Richards: If a black comic had shouted, “Honkie!” or “Cracker!” from the stage, the audience would have roared with laughter and thought nothing more of it. In fact, I’ve seen it happen personally in comedy clubs before.) This may be why Dane Cook, the great white hope of standup, gets so much attention, yet most people are hard pressed to repeat any one of his actual jokes. Can you name an Andrew Dice Clay joke? Yeah, I can name about a hundred, same with Denis Leary (or Bill Hicks [same difference?]), Sam Kinison (funnier dead than most standups are alive [again see Bill Hicks]),
So hate Carlos Mencia if you want, but he’s nothing more than a product of his time. He figured out that racial comedy is easy, and he built a (lucrative) career out of it. And he came along at the perfect time. Do you think that if Dave Chappelle hadn’t jumped ship Carlos Mencia would have his own series now? Dave Chappelle didn’t deal exclusively in race topics, but it was his thoughtful treatment of them that garnered him so much attention. He realized he was hurting more than helping, and walked away from 50 million dollars. Do you think Carlos Mencia will ever do that?
May 19th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Carlos Mencia can talk about whatever he wants. He can joke about Mexicans from now till he dies, (which, if the lunatics in this comment section can be trusted, should be any minute now). As a sidebar, it’s tough for me to agree that Mencia’s a product of his generation when I see Chappelle’s stand-up or Bill Dawes: two comedians, one black and one white, who talk about racial and non-racial issues, but they do so intelligently. And they’re both hilarious.
From the beginning, my problem with Carlos Mencia had nothing to do with race or his subject matter. I don’t care where he was really born, and I don’t care what his real name is. To be perfectly honest, I don’t even care if he steals jokes. My issue with Carlos Mencia has always always always been simple: he isn’t funny. He’s a comedian who isn’t funny. All of the externals, (alleged joke-stealing, lack of versatility, lies about birth, etc), are, to me, bonus reasons for hating Carlos Mencia. Garnish. And I don’t need bonus reasons, because at the end of the day, he’s not funny. Do I really even need another reason to hate him?
May 19th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Definitely not. A comedian’s job, no matter who he is or what he talks about, is to be funny.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:58 am
Reginald the Barbarian:
I second this abused-so-likes-Mencia theory. My guy’s ex is a self-proclaimed fat-wielding (I say this because she is fat and doesn’t wield axes, but rather her own fat) maniac who was abused her entire life by her substance-addicted parents and she worships good ole’ Ned ‘Carlos Mencia’ Holness. I would not be surprised if there was an actual correlation.
Also if you didn’t personally come up with “dee dee dee” about retards in second grade or something, or learn it from your grandpa, that’s probably because nobody said it in front of you because they preferred to say it about you behind your back. Which is to say that you were that retard that Carlos Mencia now makes fun of… and I use the word ‘fun’ with extreme leniency. Which is to say that there is probably a good correlation illustrating the real relationship between retards and a sincere appreciation for Comedy Central: BFFs 4 LYFE.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Hey, funny or not, you’re all missing the point of Mencias’ message: the day we can all shriek ugly racial slurs at each other and women start having indiscriminate sex with their guy friends in exchange for kindness and favors is the day we all hold hands and start skipping through rainbows.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Just to clarify, when I said he was a product of his environment, I meant merely that his brand of humor represents a growing trend in stand-up comedy, namely going for the cheap and easy laugh rather than getting below the surface and provoking thought. The comedians that are pretty much universally considered the best, such as Richard Pryor and George Carlin, made you think most of the time and made you laugh all the time. There will always be comedians out there with true talent who rise above the pack, just as there will always be those content to be mediocre as long as it pays well. Stereotypes are easy to perpetuate and will usually get a laugh, therefore someone like Carlos Mencia, who deals in little else, will always have a gig somewhere.
The bottom line is this: the bar is getting lower all the time.
May 19th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
I wasted reading those first five graphs waiting for a punchline. Are you kidding me? I’m praying there was an eventual punchline, but fear not.
Spastic, loud, obnoxious, dane-cook-like.
‘Highbrow comedy’? Seriously?
Why do you think these walking jokes and other redneck comedians get so much attention on Comedy Central. THEY APPEAL TO THE MASSES. Lowbrow at best. sort it
May 19th, 2008 at 2:15 pm
Wow, I was waiting for a punchline as well. Carlos Mencia is a hack. He is the king of ripping off material - and seriously? High-brow?
May 19th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
@Alex and Mom…(something not funny)
Are you kidding me?!??
Did you really miss the point of the post??!?
May 19th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
I was lucky enough to see Mencia on tour last year in Orlando and, let me tell you, I havn’t been the same since. You see, I was lucky enough to hear the heavenly trifecta: Mexican’s are lazy, Cuban’s are everywhere, and Floridians are stupid. I tell you, I’ve been thinking these things for years but he actually stood up and SAID it! It was so amazing I had to take a taxi home; not for the fact that my brain hemorrhaged like I originally thought but because his comedic genius simply short circuited my pleasure centers, as well as my motor cortex, rendering me incapacitated and incapable of feeling anything but delectation from the night of edgy in-your-face comedy!
May 19th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
@J.W. Booth: At the exact time the first episode of Mind of Mencia airs wherever you’re from, nd for 200 bucks, because Carlos is only worth about 4 cents anyway.
@Metalbrainsurgery: You’re right, /b/ would have a lot crazier people. And I don’t care about the honduran thing. he claims to be mexican, you say he’s honduran. someone else here said german/nicaraguan mix. i don’t think anybody really knows
May 19th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I remember seeing him on a half-hour “Comedy Central Presents” when I was 13 or 14 and thinking the fact that he faced race head on and was seemingly an “equal-opportunity offender” (a phrase that should have shelved 20 years ago as it pertains to comedy), and thought it was quite amusing and at least better than most of the jabronies on CCP.
I saw he got a show and thought that it might be good, since Chappelle wasn’t going to be around.
Then I saw his show, and realized that that “Comedy Central Presents” was literally all of his material, that he only had enough good material for ONE half-hour, and giving him 15-20 half-hours per year…it was just going to immediately become cancel-fodder. And yet…there it remains. So now, all the good shows got canceled, and instead, we get “Mind of Mencia” and “Lil’ Bush”. Oh, joy.
May 19th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
I not a Bush,The President not the good kind, fan by any strech of the word, but I ‘ve not been able to sit through a single episode without after about five minutes going this some fucking stupid shit and changing the channel.
Lil Bush is a waste of fucking airtime.
May 20th, 2008 at 1:04 am
This article should go in the first pages of the Comedy Bible.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:18 am
“Also if you didn’t personally come up with “dee dee dee” about retards in second grade or something, or learn it from your grandpa, that’s probably because nobody said it in front of you because they preferred to say it about you behind your back.”
I, for one, am glad Carlos Mencia was able to create “Dee dee dee” so we could use it as an insult in the mid 1980s. Without his invention, we would not have been able to properly call someone retarded on the playgrounds of America during my second through fifth grade years.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:52 am
You forgot to mention another reason why he’s funny: when all else fails (which he does 99.9% of the time), play the midget card (http://www.jibjab.com/view/140039)
May 20th, 2008 at 9:59 am
You people are nuts!! This man steals jokes and you praise him!!! It’s one thing to be a bad comedian, ie Dane Cook, but it’s another to just outright steal jokes!!! you’re idiots!!!
May 20th, 2008 at 9:59 am
I think the best part about the whole f*cking thing is that Mencia’s real name isn’t Carlos Mencia, but is in fact Ned Arnel Mencia. Interesting… it’s almost as though he realizes that since there are a bunch of racist idiots, he should be one, too, but to his own race so no one can call him out on hatemongering. Of course, for that to work, he’d have to be smart enough to see the overall… yeah, no, he just fucking sucks.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:22 am
Someone said that they couldn’t understand why anyone would like Carlos Mencia….
Well, I remember finding him sorta amusing when I was still in highschool, when I caught him on TV the first time. Of course, it was funny in a ‘Well it’s more entertaining the Jerry Springer’ then ‘Omfg, this is great’ way.
Now I’m always trying to tell people to not listen to him, but I’m not as convincing as I could otherwise be since I don’t follow stand up comedy that much.
The article was create. Alter Ego articles are often the best.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:43 am
This is obviously a use of the word “funny” I am not familiar with…
May 20th, 2008 at 11:34 am
I hate Carlos Mencia. His fake laugh (makes him look like he’s crying while taking a crap) is almost as annoying as the fact that he steals most of his material..
May 20th, 2008 at 11:59 am
FUCK! why must crack advertise every fucking aspect of their site as a list now? I used to read the blog to get the fuck away from the lists. They turned “The News on Cracked” into “The top 5 Douches of the week” and turned the blog into “new lists on topics we couldn’t get entire articles on.” They are turning THEMSELVES into a one trick pony…
who does that?
May 20th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Oh, Mike. Dear Mike. I’d like to believe that you’re simply being ironic in your post. But I don’t. Looks like sarcasm is a concept that waved bye bye to you a long time ago, otherwise you’d have been able to keep up with the conversation.
Oh, and if you were, then it wasn’t funny.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
from all of these comments, i believe we can come up with a top 4 reasons why Ned is NOT a good comedian whatsoever.
4) he steals his jokes. no need to repeat what what most of you have said about stealing, but to take entire jokes, practically word-from-word, from comedy legends such as Bill Cosby and George Lopez, and even the guys that open up for him, is just wrong.
3) its the same unfunny racial jokes over an over again. let me know if im wrong, but his routine and show go as follows:
beaner, beaner, white people, beaner, beaner, black people, beaner, dee dee dee, beaner, beaner.
2) he laughs at his own jokes frequently. this breaks one of the top rules in stand-up comedy. and the worst thing is that those jokes arent even remotely funny at all. they’re worse than the racial jokes that he uses over and over again or the ones he steals.
1) HES NOT EVEN MEXICAN!!!! ned holness is like half german, and like a little bit nicaraguan or something like that
bottom line: he sucks
May 20th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
oh yea, he is not and WILL EVER BE even close to as good as dave chappelle is. EVER
May 20th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
bobc says:
2) he laughs at his own jokes frequently. this breaks one of the top rules in stand-up comedy. and the worst thing is that those jokes arent even remotely funny at all. they’re worse than the racial jokes that he uses over and over again or the ones he steals.
I HATE THAT SO SO MUCH. He gets this look on his face like he’s trying to shit out a race car or something and does a fake laugh like it’s the funniest thing he’s ever heard in his life. (Which it actually might be, judging by the other parts of his show)
May 20th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I think he’s an annoying puta! Move on…
May 20th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
This guy is an affront to comedy, and it doesn’t help that I have to watch him smash a TV with a mic stand stand a hundred times when I’m trying to watch The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
May 20th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qoQjzJWUvgk
And he’s really not that funny.
May 20th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Grats to DOB for another great blog. Well played, sir. However, I do have a few petty pontifications to throw out onto the table. Please bear with me.
Firstly, I agree that Carlos Mencia a.k.a. The Notorious N.E.D. is not funny. That’s a common problem when you hear the same material over and over. Yes, he is also undoubtedly “racist,” though that term has lost most of it’s potentcy nowadays anyway. The thing is, he’s making an assload of money doing what he’s doing because he has a ton of fans. Maybe instead of bitching about it, we should all get together on the idea that maybe what he’s saying is true. It really is what fans wish they could say out loud. I watched his most recent special (Which, I might add they played TWICE IN A ROW) and was struck by the fact that not only was he performing to a crowd, but that he was performing in a MASSIVE ARENA. That place must have had enough seating for 30,000. And it was packed. You know how everyone who appreciates his comedy says that he does it better? Maybe that’s all the proof you need that a lot of people really do think that.
Secondly, he DOES do what he does well. Look at all the old comics who were especially inflammatory or disparaging. While they did have, and in many cases still have a large fan base, only a select few ever made it to the level that Mencia has. He has, somehow anyway, captured the attention and/or the imagination of the typical American. Come on. Can you honestly say that the Black President sketch isn’t pretty damn close to what all the rabid Fox News fans (read as: Über Conservative) honestly believe would happen if you let a black man loose in the White House? These are the same people the are admittedly FUCKING AFRAID of what the Rev. was saying not too long ago. You remember how they were blaming Obama for someone else’s comments just because he was affiliated with him? Huh. Funny that no one calls into question those holding political sway that still to this day swear up and down that Falwell had it right, or that Robertson truly speaks the Christian Gospel of Love and Understanding through Sectarian Hate. But, I digress. This is about Mencia, right? Which brings me to my final point.
He may not always be trying to create thought provoking satire. As I’ve already stated, I’m not much of a fan. But there have been times when I can’t find anything but that on, I end up watching an episode, and I can’t help but think that he does have the majority of Americans fucking nailed. It’s really easy to get online and agree with everyone else, or just flame because you’re a 14 year old that gets a boner every time he starts shit. And, for whatever reason, Mencia has been a trendy target lately. This isn’t the first time that I’ve heard these same arguments. I guess that’s the best part though, isn’t it? Really easy to gang up on someone who has the ear of a good part of the world when the farthest you can get as a comment post on a blog. How many times can I read, “He’s unoriginal and unfunny zomg lol” before it loses it’s punch and becomes Mencia’s “comedy?”
Pontification over. I’m now prepared to be flamed and/or trolled. Bring it.
P.S. Nice one, DOB. Made me want to pop my comment cherry. Keep up the good work.
May 20th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
His one “bit” that always gets me pissed off is when he tries to legitamize his making fun of minorities or retards. If you have happened to have had the misfortune of having your time wasted by one of his stand-up specials, its the part where he goes into “sensitive mode” and drones on about how mentally handicapped people don’t mind being called “retards” by people like him, so its okay and how “normal” PC people are the “cruel” ones for not busting on the disabled.
May 20th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Glad there are more people out there who think Mencia is a giant unfunny douchebag. He pretty much stole the entire premise for his show from Dave Chapelle.
May 20th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Saying racist remarks is terrible and gets you fired/a lot of trouble if you’re a politician, a worker, or a student. Buuuuuut if you’re a comedian with his own TV show, go right ahead! It’s all good. Possibly while being in the hood.
May 20th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
You’re right that he does what he does well, MacroMac. The reason he can get away with saying what he says is that he’s completely nonthreatening. He smiles and laughs while tossing off inflammatory lines, and the audience accepts it. If he were thugged out his schtick might not go over so well.
And as far as whether what he’s saying is true…well, how do most stereotypes get started? Often it’s because there’s at least a grain of truth to them.
Look, I’ll be honest with you. I watch Mind of Mencia and I think it can be really funny at times. I’ve also watched entire Carlos Mencia stand up specials and not even chuckled. And as for “Dee dee dee,” well, it may not be “I’m Rick James, bitch,” but it is a catch phrase, and as we all know, these days, you must have a catch phrase.
May 20th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Are you people really telling me that when Carlos Mencia put on a sombrero and handlebar mustache and yelled, “Work?! I’d rather have a siesta!” that you didnt fucking laugh? What a bunch of Philistines.
And well done DOB. Now thats an expensive hat.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
I was hoping a car full of lazy Mexicans ran him over.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
you forgot to mention that he steals all of his material from numerous funny people…thus when compiled he must be by default one of the funniest people…..
May 20th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Yeah, “expensive hat” is back in the public consciousness. Finally. Must be the whole “Best of the Nooners” thing.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
He’s also funny because he steals jokes from other comedians. Different people have spoken out about this.
And saying controversial things on television isn’t all that funny, or new, for that matter. People have been doing it for years.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
That “meskin” is not funny and I do not give a damn doesn’t like it. Your nothing but putos and hotos.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
DOB, you just told us all what we were too afraid to admit. Nice abs too, by the way.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
He’s funny because he steals good jokes from different comedians. He’ll obviously be good if he takes the best and things he already knows works. He’s basically just repainting old stuff.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Well, at least he’s not Dane Cook, so he’s got that going for him.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
hell no
May 20th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Mencia does suck ass. Why his his show still on it stopped beign funny when they cut the camera on in Season One. Lil Bush is funnier than him
Fucking Horrible
May 20th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
did I say Mencia sucks?
just checking
May 20th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Carlos Mencia sucks. He does the same jokes over and over again with slightly different words each time. All he ever talks about is race, retards and sex. His show should be taken off the air. He is comedian for the retarded masses.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Mencia can only steal material from others. (”loved” his “take” on Cosby’s football son sketch)
Yelling doesn’t make you edgy…just loud and obnoxious.
/nothing new to say, been said.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
deliciously sarcastic
May 20th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
If somebody wanted to give me money, I would volunteer to go to a Carlos Mencia stand-up show and infiltrate the Meniacs to find out just what hell dimension these unlovable losers spawn from.
Check out this interview. Around the 11:30 mark. For the love of God, please don’t listen to the entire interview. I can’t be held responsible for that.
Among the highlights: Other comics are jealous of him. Other comics are stealing his “act”.
“The Bill Cosby one is tough.”
May 20th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
I’m an idiot. Here’s the link.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
“Mind of Mencia” = “Hee Haw.”
That is all.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
why is there always a tool that comes on these blogs and writes “first” indicating their the first post? who gives a shit?
May 20th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I don’t know what’s worse: Mind of Mencia or the fact that Comedy Central won’t cancel Mind of Mencia.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
omg.
officially my very favourite cracked article of all time! iloveyouguyssomuch!
May 20th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
true, howler24, he does have that.
the two worst “comedians” ever. nuff said
May 20th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
yeah, when i heard there was a new season, i vowed to continue to not watch comedy central. and winston churchill is the greatest president ever. a woman once told him “If you were my husband, I’d poison your tea!” to which he replied “If you were my wife, I’d drink it!”
another time, a woman at a party accused winston of being drunk. he replied “I may be drunk, but you are hideously fat and ugly, and in the morning I shall be sober.”
Thank you for your time
May 20th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
@MacroMac: Nope, not taking the bait.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
The Miles Davis tie-in was brilliant.
May 20th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
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May 20th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Carlos Mencia ascribes to the old philosophy that anything can be funny if you just yell it loud enough.
fuck Carlos Mencia.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
You almost had me…
I thought this was going to be an actual, serious article praising carl….Ned. I read a little further and realized the mastery of sarcasm and subtle jabs in the article. This website has too much awesome and win to praise that fat fuck. My sincere apologies for doubting you DOB
May 20th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Carlos Mencia steals all his material. he’s stolen from Bill Cosby, and many others. Mencia is a fraud, and is not funny. Friggin guy isn’t even really a Mexican. Joe Rogan of all people burned his ass into the ground. that’s why he disappeared. I wonder what jokes he stole this time?
May 20th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
You forgot that Carlos Mencia is also hilarious because not only does he steal many jokes, he then tells them badly. That way he lets you know how lacking in humor all other comics are when compared to the great Mencia.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Carlos Mencia is my hero. If an annoying, talentless casual-racist can make it in this country, so can I! Dare to dream!
May 20th, 2008 at 11:04 pm
Well, O’Brien, by the Miles Davis logic, I have to agree that Carlos Mencia is one of the funniest comedians ever. Good show.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
His real name is Ned Holness and he’s half German half Honduran. Now that is some funny shit. Fucking poser. Rake in the cash while you can because much of the world is starting to hate you.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Eh, I love AND hate Carlos, sometimes his jokes are just plain stupid, and yet people get to call him “EDGY!”
May 20th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
I was a little worried with the “four reasons why Carlos Mencia is very funny” thing I got in my RSS reader, but thankfully, I don’t have to be very disappointed in you after all. a magnificent takedown, Dan. Kudos.
May 20th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
When i first read the title to this article i suddenly felt like a loan man on an island, thinking everybody thought this guy was funny as hell, i was pretty scared inside. This article and the comments section helped me discover all kinds of vids floating around on the internet about him stealing other people’s shit. Just wow. Where was i last year when all this was coming out? I used to think he was just terrible, but after watching all that, he’s worse than just not funny. Unfunny, a sellout, and a now a cheater. Way to go Ned, you non mexican piece of shit.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:17 am
I don’t know about you dudes, and I’ve never seen Carlos Mencia, who, by appearance and stand-up comedian law of averages alone, probably sucks; but I know this: racist jokes are usually pretty f***ing funny.
If you disagree, then you can just suck my giant, yellow cock.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:22 am
http://www.NeilsNotes.com is funnier!
But I’ve always thought this guy was just funny because he was an ethnic!
May 21st, 2008 at 12:31 am
“Elizabethan Carlos Mencia.” Funniest thing I’ve ever read here.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:03 am
wow, and I always thought that blackface was offensive and racist
Carlos Mencia, you are a comedic genius
May 21st, 2008 at 1:35 am
.. ever since his “stand up” i wondered why i could not laugh at this man. . . and after i heard the “rumors” of him stealing jokes i understood. .
. ..Comedy Central is so hit or miss with me…. and the transition of Chappell’s Show to Mind of Mencia is a perfect example…they needed someone of non-white race to be their new envelope pusher.
the only thing this fuck pushes is bootleg’d jokes.
Mind of Mentidas - . …spanish for lies.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:39 am
Just so you know, this was dugg to the front page and buried minutes later because apparently nobody on digg.com is familiar with sarcasm or irony.
May 21st, 2008 at 4:37 am
He’s funny in exactly the same way Dane Cook is funny. That is to say, he’s not funny. Being overly dramatic in your deliverance of a joke doesn’t make you funnier. Any half wit can see it only makes you look attention-starved. Where’s Louis CK when you need him, to deliver a batch of fresh, hot super-hate to this dumbass.
May 21st, 2008 at 6:59 am
I think for coining the term “Menciac”, you should be invited to join MENSIA.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:03 am
If you consider riding Dave Chappelle’s coattails as being funny then whatever. The only reason he’s popular is because of the 600 bizillion mexicans who watch his stuff.
May 21st, 2008 at 8:13 am
Mexican racial slurs are not funny. If you want to poke fun using racial innuendos at least do it in a creative way. One example of creative racial humor. Hispanic Mothers
May 21st, 2008 at 9:11 am
Hookedoncracked- most mexicans hate mencia we prefer george lopez mencia sucks!
May 21st, 2008 at 9:11 am
Carlos Mencia is only funny because he steals other peoples jokes and fills half his shows with them. If you look all over the net tons of people can’t stand the guy because he steals jokes from EVERYONE, what kind of act is that?
Carlos has repeated acts from many notable entertainers and has passed it off as his own, he even defended works done by Bill Cosby in a previous act were his.
Here is a video where Joe Rogan and Ari Shaffir pin his ass in front of a whole audience. Worth a watch! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoQjzJWUvgk
May 21st, 2008 at 11:01 am
“I know this comment is defending Mencia, which immediately invalidates its existence, but I am forced to mention that his black president skit was “what white people think a black president would be like”.”
Even so, Luftwaffe, he’s just stealing from Chappelle. The point of Chappelle’s Black Bush skit was that black people don’t vote because when they look at the White House, all they see is the worst white person stereotypes they can imagine - the same types of people who have been lying and keeping them down for hundreds of years. So Chappelle gave us a look at what it would look like if the worst black stereotypes we could think of were running the White House. It was hilarious and original and relevant and poignant and clever and political and right. Carlos’s skit was rehashed, unoriginal, irrelevant, racist bullshit.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:01 am
Wow. Mencia is probably the single most unfunny human being on the face of the planet. He tries so hard to be “edgy” but all he does is steal unfunny material from other comedians and make it worse with his ug-mug retarded faces he makes while screaming the joke louder and louder, as if people will eventually begin to laugh if you just raise the volume a bit.
Massive fail @ you guys at Cracked.com for even mentioning him, let alone in a positive light. Massive fail.
May 21st, 2008 at 11:34 am
Carlos Menstealia. Nuff said Ned?
May 21st, 2008 at 11:36 am
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May 21st, 2008 at 11:41 am
yeah, the guy who mentioned all the jokes he’s stolen from others word for word has it right. this isnt even actually named Carlos Mencia, his real name is Ned Holness or something. i was really hoping his show was cancelled… or maybe he got hit by a truck so he’d stop shouting for 10 seconds.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Oh..on the contrary Danny boy O’Brien.
Carlos Mencia is the flaming bag of dog shit on the doorstep of original comedy.
He’s a hack in every sense of the word. He’s not even Mexican, his real name’s not Mencia, he’s not original at all and he steals jokes! He’s stolen jokes from some of the greats for fucks sake! The only reason he gets away with it is because of sheep fucking shit heads like half these assholes who posted in agreement -that keep his ratings high. You flaming hefty douchebags wouldn’t know good comedy from your gooey purple pocket pussies. Seriously, fuck yourselves in the ear with a soldering iron. I like rough comedy. Stanhope is edgy. Mencia is not edgy, he’s a divisive hack who’s groundhog day routine serves only to perpetuate paper thin stereotypes about every group further polarizing us as a people.
Don’t get me wrong, “Dee dee dee”, is pure catchphrase genius -but its not his genius! The “(Probably)” qualifier afterwards is indicative of his hack-fuck mentality and talentless ass-clownery.
Hey Lex, do us all a favor and throw this ‘O’Brien’ contributor on the Week in Douchebaggery will ya? He is clearly, totally and irrefutably a hefty douchebag of the highest order- right next to Mencia.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:44 pm
I believe Anthony lacks an eye for sarcasm. This article was awesome. You rock DOB. And when is your AB work-out video going to be airing its infomercials? Chuck Norris and his Total Gym will be no more the minute the “O’Brien Abs Get you Laid” ads start showin up, I’ve got my credit card info at the ready.
May 21st, 2008 at 3:03 pm
I love people who don’t get sarcasm.
Oh wait, no I don’t.
See, that was sarcasm, i’ll be waiting for your heads to explode.
May 21st, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I have never seen an episode or standup of Carlos Mencia - but I knew a guy once who quoted him not stop - that guy was a douchebage and that’s enough for me to hate Carlos Mencia.
May 21st, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Mencia is a HACK!!
WTF, Cracked! He steals jokes and you got one o’ your boys touting him as a genius?! I think DOB needs to be fired for such an idiotic post. Seriously.
May 21st, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I truly hope and prey to whatever higher power is listening that this is sarcasm!! I can’t believe there is even one person left in this country that thinks that half-wit hack has anything to do with comedy. I know, I know, he “tells it like it is.” What the fuck ever!! I am personally so fucking sick of comedians using race and color to sell their shitty jokes. Sarah Silverman did it (not funny). Dave Chappelle did it (not funny). And that stupid fucking douchebag Mencia is killing us all with his wit and condor revolving around the fact that, yes, we are all a bit different. Who gives a shit. I know there are black, brown, white people all over this fucking country. Just leave it alone. Talk about your fucking sideways cock or something for once. There are no funny comedians left. Now that Bill Hicks is dead.
May 21st, 2008 at 5:07 pm
This is very Maddox-like. As are all the comments below.
May 21st, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Has… has he ever seen a picture of Barack Obama?
May 21st, 2008 at 5:23 pm
carlos mencia is not funny. every one of his skits is a direct copy of dave chappelles, but less funny, more gay, and mexican. he looks like a faggot, and disgraces comedy central.
May 21st, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Wow…it truly amazes me how many people actually think this article is serious. The sarcasm should be very obvious. To all of you who think it’s a serious article actually praising Mencia: I weep for your children, should you have any.
May 21st, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Wow, you people really hate that lazy beaner. And for anybody that didn’t know the entire article was sarcasm…. leave cracked and never come back.
May 21st, 2008 at 6:15 pm
I’m embarrassed to say I own that t shirt he’s wearing in the first pictures. It says True Love False Idols on it.
Jesus
May 21st, 2008 at 7:37 pm
um…gwiz86? Quit being a douche.
This is an article oozing with sarcasm. If you didn’t catch it, please…just get the hell off of cracked, k?
Thanks.
May 21st, 2008 at 7:39 pm
New nickname for this douchebag:
Carlos Menstration
May 21st, 2008 at 9:09 pm
I couldn’t agree more! Joe Rogan is the man
May 21st, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Ah, I’m glad someone besides me sees through his cheap, stolen, stereotypical jokes.
Apparently, everyone on Cracked is now my best friend…s
May 21st, 2008 at 9:53 pm
Because he’s a brainless, racist, one trick pony piece of shit? OH….sorry that’s the reason he’s not funny. My bad…
May 21st, 2008 at 10:22 pm
I fall at your feet and give glory to the comedic gem of …. erm…. this article.
Sad thing is, Mencia would read this and think it was actually praising him. Talk about “over your head”.
I’m utterly amazed that this douche still has a show on Comedy Central…
May 21st, 2008 at 11:33 pm
Yeah…if only he wasn’t a fraud. It’s shame Mencia isn’t his true self like the old days, and is (instead) a sell-out.
May 22nd, 2008 at 12:40 am
i have a friend who worked as an editor at his show and quit cuz of all the abuse, she says he’s a first-rate jackass and treats everyone like crap
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:01 am
@gene: Just because women invented periods doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use them…
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:10 am
Ned Holness…heh heh. You said “hole.”
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:11 am
I gotta agree with homie up top mentioning that Abe Lincoln was in fact notoriously hilarious. I’ll provide a couple of his jokes, which might not seem that funny now, but were pretty cutting edge in the 19th century, even though they didn’t even mention that Mexicans were clearly lazy.
1. After the Revolutionary War had ended, General Ethan Allen of the famous Green Mountain Boys traveled to England for some diplomatic sessions. Thinking they would insult the General, a few englishmen put up a painting of George Washington inside the outhouse. General Ethan Allen used the outhouse several times and never mentioned the painting he saw in there. The British were confused by his lack of reaction, so they asked him if he saw the painting. Ethan Allen replied with a grin “I did see the painting and I thought it was highly appropriate. Nothing will make an Englishman shit quicker than the sight of George Washington!”
2. President Lincoln was subject to viscious criticism in the newspapers for the entire span of his Presidency. The New Yorker accused him of being “two-faced” for being elected on an anti-slavery platform, and then failing to emancipate the slaves until over two years into his term. Lincoln replied to the editor of the New Yorker “Sir, you have accused me of being tow-faced. If I had two faces, do you think I would be wearing this one?”—-i.e. Lincoln was fully aware of his being a horrendously ugly man
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:13 am
Ok, so all I have to say is that Carlos Mencia is the worst comedia, probably even behind George Lopez. Comedy is not meant to be solely racist jokes, and thats what they both only do.
Typical joke:
“Ever notice how white people do this (fill in generic situation). How dumb are they when they are like (fill in generic white person action). (Pick a different race) do it this way (do that races reaction)”
Wow, that was so hard to do. O and fill in racist reactions as well.
Am I funny now because I made fun of you. You said if you make fun of retards you are funny. People choose not to make fun of retards not because it’s a hard subject, but because it’s wrong. It’s easy to point out a handicapped persons flaws dumbass.
Dumbest article ever!
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:45 am
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May 22nd, 2008 at 1:00 pm
One reason why you should not listen to this douche of a bag. He steals material from other comics.
Carlos is a terrible comic. Perhaps you will like him if your IQ = 29
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:05 pm
@ Kevin A.
I don’t think you “got it” at all….
Some people forget they’re reading a comedy website, it seems.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Mencia is joke thief and hack. Miles Davis of comedy my ass.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
About 10 years ago the comedy scene in and around East L.A was booming and many Hispanic comedians around Easl Los Angeles did the “Dee Dee Dee” to refer to retarded people. I saw that at Tortilla’s in Montebello. He stole that too! from other Latin comics. It’s such a known thing that it surprises me that he is claiming to invent that. It reminds me of that sports guy on ESPN trying to imply that he invented Booya. (BTW there was a rap group in the 80’s called Booya Tribe).
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:47 pm
It’s funny in that he is in his 4RTH SEASON on Comedy central, an yet he’s not funny.
Get over yourselves, all comics rip from each other, no matter what you think. An like I said, he’s in his 4RTH SEASON at Comedy Central, so SOMEONE with CASH thinks he’s funny.
SO STFU an eat it already haters.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Mencia= Average at best.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:02 pm
I was fortunate enough to see a segment of CM’s stand-up special on Sunday night. It was the part where he imitated an Asian saying, “YOU NO EAT DA DOG? YOU SO STUPID!” He also shouted something to the effect of, “Every animal you eat gets electrocuted!” Twice. The genius of his routine just floored me, but I can see how bad impressions of ethnicities coupled with the shouting of questionable, unsupported facts could go over most audiences’ heads.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
even the kind of ethnic stereotype humor that seems to be “Mencia”’s stock in trade was done earlier and better by the Wayans family.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Carlos mencia funny? thats like saying this boil on my left nut looks delicious OH comedy thou art a cruel and slutty mistress
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I’m getting a kick out of the people slamming the article because all that sarcasm flew over their heads at the speed of light and, consequently, they took it at face value. Not just one person but several. Talk about Dee dee dee. You folks might want to read the other comments first before posting.
Hm mm…”4RTH”? Try “fourth” or “4th” instead next time. Just sayin’.
I’ll always be grateful to Comedy Central for “The Daily Show”, “The Colbert Report” and the occasional Lewis Black special but don’t forget, these are the same people that gave us two, excruciatingly unfunny, seasons of the Sarah Silverman Show.
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:09 am
Oh, no. I know you didn’t just go and mention the Wayans. The best argument against cloning ever. What are there, 1000 of them. I know there must be more than one each of Shawn and Marlon. Two people alone can’t make that many putrid movies. But there can only be one Keenen Ivory. Who would want more of him? Damon is, of course, specifically exempted (unless you count My Wife and Kids, which I just like to pretend doesn’t exist). Interesting fact: Holness is latin for Mencia, which is spanish for “Wayans.” So there you go. Tell all your friends.
May 23rd, 2008 at 11:49 am
Carlos = about as funny as a deer tick
Does he actually do anything that he hasn’t stolen from another comedian?
May 23rd, 2008 at 7:09 pm
I agree. And I don’t know if anyone has mentioned this, but both Mencia and Chappelle are just re-doing Richard Pryor’s black president skit I put it on http://logiosdolioseriounios.blogspot.com/
May 24th, 2008 at 12:01 am
you are funny…carlos mencia is not funny. like at all. not even a little. if i had a stick i’d hit your knuckes and say, “noooo”.
May 24th, 2008 at 9:19 am
this guy is extremely retarded prolly to amuse his friends
May 25th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
I really hope this whole article was a farce.
May 29th, 2008 at 1:40 am
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June 1st, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Carlos Mencia is a fucking moron. All of his jokes are beaner jokes or dee dee dee jokes.
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June 19th, 2008 at 8:09 am
all of these could also double as reasons why he isn’t funny
June 24th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
Funny stuff DOB. If he’s the best Comedy Central can come up with to replace Chapelle (man I miss Chapelle Show), that channel’s in a lot of trouble.