I just linked to his “Dee dee dee” song on “You Tube” and I thought it was really funny, but reading some comments I get the idea that some folks consider him to be a self loathing latino or even worse. Any truth to all this? I haven’t found much more of his material, so is this something he is known for?
He’s the least funny comedian on the planet, possibly the universe. His whole schtick is shock humor, but he does it so poorly and uses such passe material that only idiots find him funny.
He’s known for being a third rate comedian doing nothing more than nearly breaking his arm patting himself on the back for pointing out stereotypes that others are supposedly scared to.
Try this expiriment: turn on his show in the middle of one of his bad monologues and see how long he goes without saying “deee de deee” (his impression of a retarded boy) or saying the word “Beeeeeaner!”. If it’s more than 20 seconds, give yourself a cookie.
Carlos is riding the trend of successful comics making their mark by belching out crude racial slurs.
Carlos Mencia: “BEANER!”
White audience: "HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Dave Chapelle: “NIGGER!”
White audience: “HAHAHAHAHAHA!”
See, racism is funny if the person saying it is of that race. I think. I’m so confused.
Umm, I went to his website, and now I feel icky. :smack:
See, now I feel even stupider because I don’t know who Dave Chapelle is. I don’t usually follow hollywood celebrities unless it concerns the carefully guided genetic experiment that will produce Scientology’s Kwisatch Haderach. Now that is a threat :eek: Mencia, not so much. Dee dee dee.
How dare you mention Carlos Mencia and Dave Chapelle in the same sentence. Chapelle may cross some lines but he treats the issue of racism with a little more complexity than “NIGGER!” He’s also funny even without racial humor.
I heard a rumor that Mencia is only something like 1/8th Hispanic.
The biggest problem is that he isn’t funny.
Just one in a long line of performers who work on shock value. Remember Andrew Dice Clay? Racist, homophobic, mysogynistic, you would have thought the republic was going to collapse. Instead just another flavor of the month, here today, gone forever.
I really get tired of these comedians that do nothing or almost nothing except joke about race, it really gets old after a while. Carlos Mencia in particular is just not funny at all to me, his jokes are so obvious and have been done to death…Asians can’t drive! HAHAHAHAH He may think he is outrageous with what he says but really he isn’t. Supposedly during his HBO stand-up he also stole 13 minutes worth of material fom fellow comedian George Lopez.
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Look, you people may not find him amusing, but the fact remains that he was popular enough to serve as President of Argentina for an entire decade! Give the man a little credit, for crying out loud.
Not funny. Never was. Never will be. That his show is apparently popular is a sad reflection on American society. Besides drunken frat boys and ten year olds, I can’t imagine anyone finding him funny. And he’s obnoxious as well, one recent commercial I saw had him stating “if you don’t know his show” you “must be living under a rock” :rolleyes:
Yeah, but I hear he stole legislation from other presidents.
Except that Dave Chapelle is actually funny some of the time.
Carlos Mencia makes me want to hurl heavy objects at my TV. He’s easily the worst comic on Comedy Central–worse even than that horrific Blue Collar Comedy crap–and yet he seems to be among the most heavily promoted. Will somebody just shut this jackass up already?
Dave Chapelle is funny, too funny. When he left his show Comedy Central decided that they needed another ethnic comedian to shock us all with a blunt and unapologetic take on race.
So they found Carlos Mencia, who they thought was a latino Dave Chapelle. Unfortunately, he turned out to be more of a latino Larry the Cable Guy.
He’s not just unfunny, he’s loathesome. They interviewed him on NPR, and he spoke of how the only thing he wants to hear from other Latinos who are in crap jobs is, “Do you want fries with that?” His point seemed to be that he didn’t care if you didn’t like your job, just shut up and give him his french fries. Really sounded like a loathesome prick. He sounds like some kind of libertarian living in his mom’s basement bragging about how nobody ever helped him become whatever the fuck he thinks he is.
According to his Wikipedia article, his dad was from Honduras and his mom from Mexico, and both have what sound like Hispanic names except for the (perhaps) questionable surname of his dad, Holness. Anyway, he’d have to have some complicated genealogy to end up only 1/8th Hispanic out of that combination.
His act consists of trying to be shocking and outrageous. It stops being funny after a second and moves right into tiresome.