| Carlos Mencia | |
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 Mencia prior to a live concert at a U.S. Army camp in the Persian Gulf Region |
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| Born | Ned Arnel Mencía October 22, 1967 San Pedro Sula, Honduras |
| Other name(s) | Ned Holness[1] |
| Occupation | Actor, Comedian, Writer |
| Years active | 1990–present |
Ned Arnel Mencía (born October 22, 1967), better known by his stage name Carlos Mencia, is a Honduran-born American comedian, writer, and actor. His style of comedy is often political and involves issues of race, culture, and social class, juxtaposing existing social issues with ethical convention. He was formerly the host of his own show on Comedy Central, Mind of Mencia.
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Mencía was born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the seventeenth of eighteen children. His mother, Magdelena Mencía, was Mexican, and his father, Roberto Holness, was a Honduran whose distant ancestors included immigrants from Germany, England, and the Cayman Islands.[2] At the time of his birth, Mencía's mother engaged in a domestic dispute with his father, and declined to give her son his biological father's last name.[1][3] The name appearing on his birth certificate is "Ned Arnel Mencía", although Mencia has said that out of respect for his biological father he went by the Holness name anyway, and was known as "Ned Holness" until he was eighteen years old.[1]
Mencia was raised in East Los Angeles, California by his aunt Consuelo and uncle Pablo Mencia. By his own admission, staying out of trouble was difficult while growing up, but with the help of his family he excelled in school and stayed out of gangs. He majored in electrical engineering at California State University, Los Angeles, but left early to pursue a career in comedy after a successful performance at an open mic night at The Laugh Factory. He also has an older brother named Joseph Mencia who often appears on Mind of Mencia.
Mencia lives with his wife, Amy, in the Los Angeles area of California. They have one child, Lucas Pablo Mencia.[4]
Mencia was a quick success at such venerated LA stand-up venues as The Comedy Store and The L.A. Cabaret. This led to appearances on The Arsenio Hall Show and Buscando Estrellas, where he attained the title "International Comedy Grand Champion." Then, in 1994, Mencia was chosen to host HBO's latino comedy showcase Loco Slam.
Mencia followed up Loco Slam by hosting Funny is Funny! on Galavision in 1998. He would continue to do stand-up, including a very successful tour in 2001 with Freddy Soto and Pablo Francisco, "The Three Amigos." Mencia also did two half-hour specials on HBO, the second of which won him a CableACE Award for Best Stand-Up Comedy Special. After the release of his first comedy album by Warner Records, Take A Joke America, Mencia performed his break-out performance on Comedy Central Presents in 2002.
By the time his career began to take off in the early 2000s, Mencia was also working as an actor doing guest appearances in the television shows Moesha and The Shield, and starring in the film Outta Time and the animated show The Proud Family.
In March 2005, Comedy Central announced Mencia's own half-hour comedy show, Mind of Mencia. The show mixed Mencia's stand up comedy with sketch comedy, much like Dave Chappelle's Chappelle's Show. The show achieved moderate success in its first season and was brought back for a second season in the spring of 2006, becoming Comedy Central’s second highest rated program behind South Park.[5] It was brought back for a third season that summer before being cancelled in 2008. Mind of Mencia was produced by Nedlos, a portmanteau of Mencia's birth name and stage name.
Mencia is sometimes a guest on the Opie and Anthony radio show on XM Satellite Radio and CBS Radio. He took part in the first Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour in 2006.
Mencia starred in a Super Bowl XLI commercial for Bud Light. In November 2009, Mencia began appearing commercials for a weight-loss product called Belly Burner, which he has claimed to have used personally.[6]
Mencia has received criticism for his act and television show, perhaps most notably from other comedians.[7] In 2006, Maxim named Mencia as the 12th worst comic of all time.[8][9] A 2010 Wall Street Journal article noted that Mencia, along with Dane Cook and Jay Leno, were three of the most hated popular stand-ups by fellow comedians.[7] In May 2009, Cracked listed 25 of the comics actual Twitter posts that they considered to be unintentionally funny.[10]
Comedian Joe Rogan wrote a post on his website publicly accusing Mencia of being a plagiarist, alleging that Mencia stole jokes from a number of comedians.[11] Notably on February 10, 2007 Rogan confronted Mencia on stage at the Comedy Store on Sunset and continued his allegations of plagiarism. Rogan posted a video of the altercation with audio and video clips from other comedians including George Lopez, Bobby Lee and Ari Shaffir among others.[12] Rogan has also posted audio and video clips of Mencia's interviews and joke routines being compared on his blog.[13][14]
George Lopez has accused Mencia of plagiarizing his material. In an interview on The Howard Stern Show, Lopez accused Mencia of plagiarizing 13 minutes of his material in Mencia's HBO special. He also claimed he had a physical altercation with Mencia over the alleged plagiarism.[15] The only joke that Lopez has publicly specified was stolen and used on Mencia's HBO special was a Taco Bell joke. Comedian Ted Sarnowski countered this claim, stating that the joke he performed on radio in 1988 was later taken and used without permission by Lopez, the radio station's resident comic. Sarnowski claims to have given Mencia permission to use the joke, yet Lopez later began referring to Mencia as a "thief" over the joke Lopez allegedly plagiarized.[16][17][18]
Mencia has also been accused of stealing a routine from Bill Cosby. In his special, No Strings Attached, Mencia performs a bit about a father who spends years training his son for a career as a football player, only to see the son say "I love you, Mom!" at his moment of televised victory. Cosby performed a very similar bit in his concert film Bill Cosby: Himself and wrote briefly on the subject in his book Fatherhood. Mencia told the Los Angeles Times that he had never seen the film but regretted the similarities between his and Cosby's jokes.[19]
Carlos Mencia's accused plagiarism was also the butt of a few jokes in an April 2009 episode of South Park entitled "Fishsticks" where Carlos Mencia takes credit for a joke that somebody else had written. When faced with the prospect of being assaulted he admits "I took credit for it because I'm not actually funny!.... I just take jokes and repackage them with a Mexican accent!" He is later killed in the episode by Kanye West.[20]
In February 2009, Mencia was dropped from the Krewe of Orpheus' celebrity lineup for New Orleans Mardi Gras, citing inappropriate comments he made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Mencia remarked during his stand up: “I’m glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: Black people can’t swim.”[21]
Not including his comedy specials for HBO and Comedy Central, Mencia has also appeared on Comic Relief, and hosted Loco Slam in 1994, Latino Laugh Festival in 1997, Funny is Funny! in 1998, and Uncensored Comedy: That's Not Funny in 2003.
| Carlos Mencia | |
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File:Carlos Mencia Mencia prior to a live concert at a U.S. Army camp in the Persian Gulf Region | |
| Born |
Ned Arnel Mencía October 22, 1967 San Pedro Sula, Honduras |
| Other names | Ned Holness[1] |
| Occupation | Actor, comedian, writer |
| Years active | 1990–present |
Ned Arnel Mencía (born October 22, 1967), better known by his stage name Carlos Mencia, is a Honduran-born American comedian, writer, and actor. His style of comedy is often political and involves issues of race, culture, and social class, juxtaposing existing social issues with ethical convention. He was formerly the host of his own show on Comedy Central, Mind of Mencia.
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Mencía was born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the seventeenth of eighteen children. His mother, Magdelena Mencía, was Mexican, and his father, Roberto Holness, was a Honduran whose distant ancestors included immigrants from Germany, England, and the Cayman Islands.[2] At the time of his birth, Mencía's mother engaged in a domestic dispute with his father, and declined to give her son his biological father's last name.[1][3] The name appearing on his birth certificate is "Ned Arnel Mencía", although Mencia has said that out of respect for his biological father he went by the Holness name anyway, and was known as "Ned Holness" until he was eighteen years old.[1]
Mencia was raised Roman Catholic[4] in East Los Angeles, California by his aunt Consuelo and uncle Pablo Mencia. By his own admission, staying out of trouble was difficult while growing up, but with the help of his family he excelled in school and stayed out of gangs. He majored in electrical engineering at California State University, Los Angeles, but left early to pursue a career in comedy after a successful performance at an open mic night at The Laugh Factory. He also has an older brother named Joseph Mencia who often appeared on Mind of Mencia.
Mencia lives with his wife, Amy, in the Los Angeles area of California. They have one child, Lucas Pablo Mencia.[5]
Mencia was a quick success at such venerated LA stand-up venues as The Comedy Store and The L.A. Cabaret. This led to appearances on The Arsenio Hall Show and Buscando Estrellas, where he attained the title "International Comedy Grand Champion." Then, in 1994, Mencia was chosen to host HBO's latino comedy showcase Loco Slam.
Mencia followed up Loco Slam by hosting Funny is Funny! on Galavision in 1998. He would continue to do stand-up, including a very successful tour in 2001 with Freddy Soto and Pablo Francisco, "The Three Amigos." Mencia also did two half-hour specials on HBO, the second of which won him a CableACE Award for Best Stand-Up Comedy Special. After the release of his first comedy album by Warner Records, Take A Joke America, Mencia performed his break-out performance on Comedy Central Presents in 2002.
By the time his career began to take off in the early 2000s, Mencia was also working as an actor doing guest appearances in the television shows Moesha and The Shield, and starring in the film Outta Time and the animated show The Proud Family.
In March 2005, Comedy Central announced Mencia's own half-hour comedy show, Mind of Mencia. The show mixed Mencia's stand up comedy with sketch comedy, much like Dave Chappelle's Chappelle's Show. The show achieved moderate success in its first season and was brought back for a second season in the spring of 2006, becoming Comedy Central’s second highest rated program behind South Park.[6] It was brought back for a third season that summer before being cancelled in 2008. Mind of Mencia was produced by Nedlos, a portmanteau of Mencia's birth name and stage name.
Mencia is sometimes a guest on the Opie and Anthony radio show on XM Satellite Radio and CBS Radio. He took part in the first Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour in 2006.
Mencia starred in a Super Bowl XLI commercial for Bud Light. In November 2009, Mencia began appearing commercials for a weight-loss product called Belly Burner, which he has claimed to have used personally.[7]
Mencia has received criticism for his act and television show, perhaps most notably from other comedians.[8] In 2006, Maxim named Mencia as the 12th worst comic of all time.[9][10] A 2010 Wall Street Journal article noted that Mencia, along with Dane Cook and Jay Leno, were three of the most hated popular stand-ups by fellow comedians.[8] In May 2009, Cracked listed 25 of the comic's actual Twitter posts that they considered to be unintentionally funny.[11]
Comedian Joe Rogan wrote a post on his website publicly accusing Mencia of being a plagiarist, alleging that Mencia stole jokes from a number of comedians.[12] Notably on February 10, 2007 Rogan confronted Mencia on stage at the Comedy Store on Sunset and continued his allegations of plagiarism. Rogan posted a video of the altercation with audio and video clips from other comedians including George Lopez, Bobby Lee and Ari Shaffir among others.[13] Rogan has also posted audio and video clips of Mencia's interviews and joke routines being compared on his blog.[14][15]
George Lopez has accused Mencia of plagiarizing his material. In an interview on The Howard Stern Show, Lopez accused Mencia of plagiarizing 13 minutes of his material in Mencia's HBO special. He also claimed he had a physical altercation with Mencia over the alleged plagiarism.[16] The only joke that Lopez has publicly specified was stolen and used on Mencia's HBO special was a Taco Bell joke. Comedian Ted Sarnowski countered this claim, stating that the joke he performed on radio in 1988 was later taken and used without permission by Lopez, the radio station's resident comic. Sarnowski claims to have given Mencia permission to use the joke, yet Lopez later began referring to Mencia as a "thief" over the joke Lopez allegedly plagiarized.[17][18][19]
Mencia has also been accused of stealing a routine from Bill Cosby. In his special, No Strings Attached, Mencia performs a bit about a father who spends years training his son for a career as a football player, only to see the son say "I love you, Mom!" at his moment of televised victory. Cosby performed a very similar bit in his concert film Bill Cosby: Himself and wrote briefly on the subject in his book Fatherhood. Mencia told the Los Angeles Times that he had never seen the film but regretted the similarities between his and Cosby's jokes.[20]
Carlos Mencia's accused plagiarism was also the butt of a few jokes in an April 2009 episode of South Park entitled "Fishsticks" where Carlos Mencia takes credit for a joke that somebody else had written. When faced with the prospect of being assaulted he admits "I took credit for it because I'm not actually funny!.... I just take jokes and repackage them with a Mexican accent!" He is later killed in the episode by Kanye West.[21]
Mencia also addressed the issue of plagiarism in two interviews with Marc Maron in May 2010 [22] [23]
In February 2009, Mencia was dropped from the Krewe of Orpheus' celebrity lineup for New Orleans Mardi Gras, citing inappropriate comments he made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Mencia remarked during his stand up: “I’m glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: Black people can’t swim.”[24]
Not including his comedy specials for HBO and Comedy Central, Mencia has also appeared on Comic Relief, and hosted Loco Slam in 1994, Latino Laugh Festival in 1997, Funny is Funny! in 1998, and Uncensored Comedy: That's Not Funny in 2003.
Mind Of Mencia is a sketch-comedy series that stars Carlos Mencia.
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(To a redneck.)
(To a Mexican woman.)
Punji: Aren't you the woman with 12 kids?
Woman: Yes.
Punji: What do you feed them, the losing lottery tickets?
Woman: Callate la boca mamon, just give me the lottery
tickets.
Punji: Lord Krishna, Please forgive me for I know what I am about
to say. You are never going to win the lottery, you have a better
chance of getting knocked up by Ryan Seacrest, And you have enough kids.
Why don't you take your $50 and buy a vagina cork. I hope I am
reincarnated as a condom so that I'll never see you again, now take
your lottery tickets, and get the park out of my store!
Woman: Desrigado!
Mencia: I know Spanish too, puta!
(To a smoker who has a hole in his throat)
(To a fat black woman)
(To a would-be robber) Robber: Give me the money. Open
the register, move!
Punji: You better think twice about robbing me, because you are on
camera my friend.
Robber: No, I sprayed it.
Punji: No dumbass. Men don't wear dee dots. This is a camera my
friend (pointing to his forehead). You are on DOT CAM.
(takes out a gun with a laser sight and points it at the
robber's forehead) Oh. Now you have a dot just like me. Let us
play a game. We are going quail hunting. I am the Vice-President,
and you are my best friend. NOW GET THE PARK OUT OF MY STORE, DO
IT, DO IT NOW!
Johnny Cochran: If you swim with the fishes, you dead sons of
bitches.
Mencia: Judge Carlos rules in favor of SeaWorld and orders the
records to be sealed. Because I don't even want to think
about what he was doing in Shamu's pen. The whale probably killed
him in self-defense.
HEY! (With a finger over his lips sounding Aquatic) NO MEANS
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Dee Dee Dee dosen't mean mentally retarded. It means stupid. This song goes out to all the stupid people out there. Your gonna find this song hilarious, and you don't even know it's about you."
You dropped out of school cause you’re smarter than
everybody
I got three words for you dumbass,
“Ding, fries ready”
You try to outrun a bull,
but nobody’s that fast
That’s how you end up,
with a horn stuck up your ass
Roethlisberger needs no helmet cause he’s a star
But the year the bus left, he got hit by a car
You wanna go huntin’ for quail someplace
Don’t go with Cheney,
he’ll put a fuckin shot in your face
If you bungee jump so you can fly through the air
I ain’t sad you ended up in that wheelchair
You ignore all the warnings,
yet you light up a smoke
Now you have to talk with a machine in your throat
[Chorus]
How many idiots can there be?
Some say that it’s 1 out of 3
If you don’t know then take it from me
You’re the dee dee dee
you you you
dee dee dee
And if you are a Dee
Please don’t marry a Dee
Cause then your kids will be
(what? what?)
Dee dee dee
dee dee dee
[Verse 2]
You cry about the price of gas and war in Iraq
But you voted Bush in twice what were you smokin, crack?
Didn’t get a prenup, though you knew she was a skank
Now you’ve got herpes and she’s got half your bank
You were on top of the world with “Hit Me Baby One More Time”
Only a stupid bitch would marry Kevin Federline
You drink and drive and you think it’s okay
Now you’re cell mate’s weavin in and out the “hershey
highway”
When you put tigers on your show and they can’t be free
They’ll bite your neck off and then you’ll say
(chokingly) “dee dee dee” (cough)
[Chorus]
How many idiots can there be?
Some say that it’s 1 out of 3
If you don’t know then take it from me
You’re the dee dee dee
you you you
dee dee dee
And if you are a Dee
Please don’t marry a Dee
It’s genetics don’t you see?
Your kids will be dee dee dee
That’s what they’re gonna be: DEE DEE DEE!!!
[Verse 3]
Parents are to blame for all these dee dee dee’s
Letting their kids drop out and not get GED’s
You keep your kids inside cause there’s freaks on the loose
But yet you let them drink from Michael Jackson’s “Jesus
Juice”?
You don’t care when your kids come home with D’s from class
What you need to do is get some balls and beat that ass
He isn’t stupid, you say he’s got A.D.D.
It’s that his mom and his dad are both dee dee dee!
[Bridge]
This test is too hard!
(So we lower the standards)
I’m not good at sports!
(So we give them all trophies)
My dad used to spank me
(So we lower the standards)
I’m too fat for this seat
(So we widen the standards)
They say no cause I’m black
(So we lower the standards)
They say no cause I’m white
(So we lower the standards)
They say no cause I’m Asian
(So we lower the standards)
No habla inglés
(So we all become Spaniards)
And you wake up one day and you don’t have the skills
To get a better job so you’re stuck on the grill
You’re wondering why Julio took your job
But you forget to see, you’re as dumb as a knob
Your ass is too fat to get out of the house
While you’re eating more food trying to figure it out
So they outsource your job to some guy named Habib
Cause he works harder than you and he’s got 5 degrees
And you’re asking yourself how could this happen to me
I’ll tell you why, homie! Cause you’re….
Dee dee dee
Dee dee dee
Dee dee dee
1
2
3 into the 4
You rappers think you're rich but you're really dirt poor
You go broke paying for rims on your Hummer
I'll never go broke unlike MC Hammer
I use Hundred dollar bills to wipe my ass
I hose my bitches down with unleaded gas
Rappers have cars with TVs in the back
I can't fit one in my ride cuz its a fuckin' jetpack
huhlahumalahhumahumalumanah
huhlahumalahhumahumalumanah
Sometimes I kill people just to make my day
Like that time back in Dallas I shot JFK
That was me hiding in the grassy knoll
I own a time machine it's made of solid gold
And I wasn't gonna tell you this but screw it
Hurricane Katrina didn't do
it
It was me cuz thats how I blow
(Blow)
And I even call men bitches cuz your all my hoes
I shot my friend cuz he looked at me funny
and the cops will beat him when I show him my money
Girls: Hoes in the back
Gas in the crack
Snaps his fingers and we're on our backs
Girls: Hoes in the back
Gas in the crack
He paid Bush to attack Iraq.
This one goes out to all you rappers out there
They call you 50 Cent call me Gazillionaire
Eminem's Grit has turned to Vanilla
I own Europe, Syria, and parts of Manila
Nelly's always talking about the gold in his
grill
I make all this money off the oil that I drill
Ludacris you say you necklace feels like a
midget
well my necklace really is a midget
haaamelahmalalmaahaamelahamalalamalamala
haaamelahmalalmaahaamelahamalalamalamala
P. Diddy has Bad Boy and Sean
John
I have that plus I bought a black man's shlong
I got my face on my money and my money on my face
on the weekends I ride my shuttle into space
You know a great way of getting alot of coon?
Fly bitches to your moon
East coast, west coast I don't care
When you do a drive by I collect the gas fare
Oh goddammit I have so much money
It's not even funny
Ok, it's actually pretty funny
Cause when I'm hungry I put a bald eagle in my tummy
"Oh there it goes, the American bird it is so delicious"
And I wash that down with a polar bear rib
Why don't you check out my crib
No not this one this is as small as a mouse
I own the Taj Mahal, the pyramids, the fucking White House
So to all you rappers who think your rich
You ain't shit till you make Donald Trump your
bitch
"That's Him my friends
And who's wiping my ass eh?"
(To Trump)"Hey, You're Fired."
"You're Fired!"
(Sarcastically) "You're Fired!"
haaamahamalahaaamahamalahaaamahamalahaaamahamalalalala
   | Mind Of Mencia website at ComedyCentral.com - Mind of Mencia Official Site - Carlos Mencia rants and raves in his uncensored sketch show | Comedy Central |
| | Official Website - The Official Site of Carlos Mencia - Equal Opportunity Offender |
| | Carlos Mencia on My Space - CARLOS MENCIA on MySpace Comedy - Comic Clips, Funny Videos & Jokes |
| | Mencia - Stand-Up Showdown | Jokes.com |
| | COMEDY CENTRAL DELVES DEEPER INTO THE "MIND OF MENCIA" AND ORDERS THIRD SEASON - Comedy Central Press | Press Release |
 | Carlos Mencia shares a piece of his mind - Carlos Mencia shares a piece of his mind < PopWire | PopMatters |
| | Carlos Mencia is a weak minded joke thief. - The Joe Rogan Blog » Conduit to the Gaian Mind » Carlos Mencia is a weak minded joke thief. |
| | Is Carlos Mencia a thief? - Is Carlos Mencia a thief? - Bonus Bytes |
| | Carlos Mencia Just Said That - Los Angeles CityBeat - Carlos Mencia Just Said That |
| | Carlos Mencia conquers comedy and now eyes the cinema - Carlos Mencia conquers comedy and now eyes the cinema - OrlandoSentinel.com |
| | official website - The Joe Rogan Blog » Conduit to the Gaian Mind |
| | Joeshow episode, 5:47-5:51 - YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. |
| | An essay critical of Mencia - Horrified Observers of Pedestrian Entertainment: Do Not Watch Mind of Mencia |
| | Carlos Mencia plagiarizing Bill Cosby - Carlos Mencia Stealing Jokes From Cosby Video |
| | Source - YouTube - Mencia Steals from Cosby? |
| | Source - YouTube - Carlos Mencia Stole More bits, gets CAUGHT ON AIR!! |
| | 'youtube.com' Original Ari Shaffir footage - YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. |
| | CarlosMenciaGear.com - Clothing Line - Carlos Mencia Gear | Buy Clothing CDS & DVDs Online |
| | here (Sam Kinison) - YouTube - Mencia Steals From Sam Kinison |
| | Video suggesting Mencia plagiarized Cosby - YouTube - Mencia Steals from Cosby? |
| | Video suggesting Mencia plagiarized TV show "The State" - YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. |
| | Video suggesting Mencia plagiarized Sam Kinison - YouTube - Mencia caught stealing again |
| | Video suggesting Mencia plagiarized comedienne Morgan Murphy" - YouTube - mencia steals yet again |
| | Carlos Mencia Fansite - Carlos Mencia: We Love Carlos! |
| | Carlos Mencia's Myspace page - MySpace.com - www.myspace.com/90491476 |
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