Carlos Mencia
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i personally can't stand this guy.
Mencia is hilarious. Unfortunately, he is now just recycling the same bits over and over. Such is the danger when a comedian gets a tv show.
chapelle kept it funny, this guy...not so much.
Chapelle wasn't funny to even start with. IMO.
That jackass AND Larry the Cable Jerk should both be executed in public.
I like him...he's kinda like a Latino Chappelle, though he's been accused of seriously lifting material.
His first season of Mind of Mencia was OK, it actually had some good material but this latest stuff has some very stupid, very immature humor in it.
I thought it was just an act since his show is probably directed towards 7th grade white boys but apparently he thinks "you're just talking shit about me is because you actually like me" is an insult, so I'm having doubts that it is an act.
Maintaining is difficult for a comedian and only a handful can pull it off. He's not one of them. But he is where he is because he of his heritage and, well, he was funny for a little while. He's stale now.
His Honduran/German heritage??
I expect that his show sucks now because no writer wants to work for him after he's been so incredibly exposed as a joke thief. I liked the first season of his show, but I did hear some things that I previously heard elsewhere.
"I go to Miami, and now I'm Cuban, do you understand that?"
I'm pretty sure some other Hispanic comic wrote that... if not George Lopez, someone else... I swear I remember hearing that joke ten years ago.
He presents himself as of Latin descent and touts that image.
Such is the danger when a comedian gets a tv show.
For my money, comedians are rarely if ever as good in the sitcom format as they are at standups. The list is a mile long...
IMO, he funny, and he has a good message about people being to afraid to offend someone (by accident of course :p).
I don't like Mencia. He tries too hard.
BTW-my summer lit. class was taught by Chappell's mom--Yvonne Seon. Was Lit. of the African Diaspora. She is quite the talented poet. Behold:
Show Me a Motion
He came
and told us
in very proper tones
that there was no such thing
as "Black English,"
and therefore nobody
should be taught to speak it,
because it represents
a perpetuation of degradation-
even though it doesn't exsist!
She came
and told us
in home-grown language
what it had ben like
coming up Black
on a plantation
in the Mississippi Delta;
and nobody missed the nuances
of humor, humiliation, pathos and love-
even though she spoke different
I come
and assure you
in this alien tongue
that there are notions abroad
for which I have no words;
So, I dance my thoughts
into jazzy cymbals:
Nayoki, I "dig":
Seeing, feeling, comprehending-
Altogether, getting it.
--Dr. Yvonne Seon
She was really a very interesting woman. Dave called her on her cell phone while she was teaching and she relayed his good wishes to us, which was nice. She is such a gifted poet; her new book, titled Totem Games should be out by Sept. She's hyperintelligent and very spiritual in an "otherworldly" kind of way. She has eyes the color of clear green sea-ice.
I will have to check her out. What a great experience for you.
Mencia is pretty funny. But the joke stealing, while kind of lame isn't that much of a big deal to me, personally. I mean his show is no Chappelle's Show, but in reality a lot of comedians do rearrange previous material. Call it stealing, it might be. Call it inspiration, might be that too.
The skits don't thrill me, probably because they're in the David Letterman vein and I'm more into mining setpiece humor of the Smothers Brothers and Laugh-In veins. But the standup does give a Hispano-for-fun quality I enjoy. Perhaps you have to live in SoCal?
I'm more into mining setpiece humor of the Smothers Brothers and Laugh-In veins
The last Laugh-In aired 1972. The last Smos Bros show was in 1975. Is there nothing you've laughed at in the last 32 years?
Is there nothing you've laughed at in the last 32 years?
Laughter is for the weak.
Call it stealing, it might be. Call it inspiration, might be that too.
No, it's stealing.
The last Laugh-In aired 1972. The last Smos Bros show was in 1975. Is there nothing you've laughed at in the last 32 years?
Pickles, the comic trip, has had a running gag the last few days that old people have poor senses of humor because their brains are wired differently. Or maybe because they don't hear the punchline.
Laughter is for the weak.
The last Laugh-In aired 1972. The last Smos Bros show was in 1975. Is there nothing you've laughed at in the last 32 years?
But with the magic of cable TV, one never ever has to branch out, ever again! TRIO shows reruns of both these shows, constantly. I know because my dad watches them. Constantly. He says he really doesn't understand the new "fad" of those animated humor shows.
The last Laugh-In aired 1972. The last Smos Bros show was in 1975. Is there nothing you've laughed at in the last 32 years?
Oh, quite a lot; certainly I laugh oftener and louder than tw, a notably humorless individual (pause to check the tw Bash Box on the mental session agenda). Perhaps I should have made it clearer that it was their kind of set-piece humor that I prefer over the setpiecery David Letterman's writers come up with. Mencia's oneliners amuse me much more.
And with cable, you've got plenty more thingies to branch out into, also. I'm an unabashed
Kim Possible fan -- such that I'm a 'shipper for a She-Go/Senor Senior Jr. pair-up.
Nope, not funny. I mean, "black people are lazy" jokes? Old and weak.