Carlos Mencia: Joke Thief

Basically, Joe Rogan and a few other comics were on stage accusing Mencia of stealing jokes last week. There's a lot of information on the interwebs about it. Here are some links to what I'm talking about.

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http://www.joerogan.net/main.php =Joe Rogan writing about the night in question (3rd one down... the two above are later writings about the incident)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...18711943453918 =Video of the Night in question

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbc...RTAIN/70215009 =An Article on it

http://redban.com/audio/lopez.mp3 =Older Audio about Mencia's tendacy by George Lopez

What do you think?

Joe Rogan has done a lot of crazy stuff on TV and said some nasty comments when BJ Penn lost to Matt Hughes at last fall's UFC event. I mostly know the guy through his UFC commentating but I never knew he did comedy until I saw him as a replacement host on the Man Show a few years back.

I've seen this before and this had me laughing.

As if I care about some Mexican.

 

this is the part where I wait to see how many people get the irony of that line.

If he's a joke thief, he doesn't do a good job, since most of his material sucks.

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Originally Posted by Whispers

As if I care about some Mexican.

 

this is the part where I wait to see how many people get the irony of that line.

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Irony understood. Heh, I can't believe he's not even Mexican. What a fraud.


Anywho, I read about this on another forum I frequent a few days ago. I started off (unashamedly) liking "Carlos Mencia" (as he likes to think of himself) and defending him/his comedy, but now he's kind of lame. I'm not just hoping on the bashing bandwagon either - his jokes have gotten old. There not even his jokes, apparently.

Joe Rogan...been a while since I've heard about him. But this whole thing is funny.

Joe Rogan is always doing UFC commentary

speaking of Joe Rogan. Here is him beating up some MySpace challenger
*warning bad language in these videos too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a556pUcVgO0
He's a brown belt in Brazilian JiuJitsu

I used to not like Joe Rogan until I saw this video. We're a lot a like after watching this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_BlX8PmTe0

I'm mostly know of Joe Rogan's great stuff he does for mixed martial arts.

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Originally Posted by ~Vicarious Tool~

Irony understood. Heh, I can't believe he's not even Mexican. What a fraud.

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... he's not? Is he Puerto Rican or something, and I just missed him saying that?

Because if he's from, like... South America or something then damn, that guy is a REAL FAKE.

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Originally Posted by Whispers

... he's not? Is he Puerto Rican or something, and I just missed him saying that?

Because if he's from, like... South America or something then damn, that guy is a REAL FAKE.

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From what I herd, he's german and...Some kind of spanish that isn't mexican. His real name isn't even Carlos Mencia. It's Ned Arnel Mencia.

"Carlos" is the eBaums world of the comic industry. He has one original joke.
DEE DEE DEEEEEE~
Yeah, har har, funny...
And the original joke isn't funny.

I've heard the rest of it before from other comics on several occasions.

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Originally Posted by Whispers

... he's not? Is he Puerto Rican or something, and I just missed him saying that?

Because if he's from, like... South America or something then damn, that guy is a REAL FAKE.

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He's half Honduran/half German. Funny how he refers to himself as

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a beaner

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Carlos Mencia is an unfunny comedian in any case. And to clear up his nationality, he's half Honduran (on his dad's side) and half Mexcian (on his mom's side).

I never even heard of this guy until Rogan exposed him.

lol, I watched Joe call Carlos out on iambored.com......it was some pretty funny stuff. The creator of the video would bring up stuff that Joe accused him of, like the joke Ari made about the wall to keep out Mexicans. I knew he had been stealing jokes, but I didnt know that it was that many jokes

Joe Rogan is what carlos wishes he could crap out. He's a very funny comedian, and unlike SOME comedians, knows how to deal with hecklers (if you've seen that video). He's a funny guy, not the best, but funny.

As for carlos...or whatever we're calling him.

He's the latin dave chapelle, just nowhere near as funny. His Early standup (when no one gave a crap about him) was pretty good. Not the comedy central stuff, I mean the bootleg stuff from years ago. I theorize now that he's some high profile comic the pressure was on and that's probably when he started stealing material.

I've never thought he was funny. Almost all of the stand-up comedians they have on Comedy Central are way more talented than he could ever be.

If he does steal jokes, he should try stealing some better ones.

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Originally Posted by Masali

He's the latin dave chapelle, just nowhere near as funny.

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I take offense to that (well, not really) because they are nothing alike. Dave is funny. Dave has original jokes. Dave uses his real name, and while there seems to be a debate as to whether or not Mencia is mexican, we at least know Dave is black lol.

But really I have no clue how this guy even got a show. All the racist jokes were not considered a big deal because people assumed (by assumed I mean were lied to) he was mexican. Now if it comes out that he really isn't he can get a lot of heat for all of the racial jokes. Especially if hes German or something. Seems to be an unwritten rule that you can't make jokes about minorities and not get in trouble unless you actually ARE a minority. If not...your called a racist.

Straight from wikipedia
Mencia was born “Ned Arnel Mencia”, the seventeenth of eighteen children in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. His father, Roberto Holness, is from Honduras, and his mother, Magdelena Mencia, is from Mexico.

Where the heck did you people get German from? I think he pretty much qualifies as a beaner.

But on topic. No, he's not that funny. His actual stand up outside his show is a little better though...but not by much.

Eh, I've always preferred Dane Cook over any other Comedy Central comedian (save for maybe Steven Colbert =3).

However, I did not know that Mencia was stealing jokes. What an idiot.

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Originally Posted by Scarlet Wings

Straight from wikipedia
Mencia was born “Ned Arnel Mencia”, the seventeenth of eighteen children in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. His father, Roberto Holness, is from Honduras, and his mother, Magdelena Mencia, is from Mexico.

Where the heck did you people get German from? I think he pretty much qualifies as a beaner.

But on topic. No, he's not that funny. His actual stand up outside his show is a little better though...but not by much.

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Originally Posted by Joe Rogan

To give you a little background, when I first moved to Hollywood way back in 1994 Carlos and I were actually friends.
We hung out together a bunch of times. Played pool together, went to the gym, hung out at the store, all kinds of ****. That's also how I know that he's really half German and Half Honduran and not Mexican. I know it, because he told me himself.

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Hypothetical situation: Person A Lies. Person B Puts in on Wikipedia. Does Person A still lie? That is the only real negative aspect of wikis. Even if it's referenced, it doesn't mean it’s necessarily true (Although, this really extends to everything, it is just a slightly bigger issue for wikis).

So, it boils down to a "He said, she said." Conceder this, though. His proclivity to steal the work of others is fairly obvious. Would it be any harder to lie about your parent’s nationality?