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.

Sux!

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.

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

Awesome, Bri!