Carlos Mencia: Mind of The Joke Stealer

Much has been made of Carlos Mencia and Joe Rogan fighting. I don’t really care about Mencia really being a half German named Ned, I get that its an on stage persona, Larry The Cable Guy isn’t a real name either, thats not my problem. My problems with Carlos stem more from his act as a whole.

1. He steals jokes.

This is the main point of the Rogan and Mencia feud. Rogan isn’t really known for his stand up, but hes a solid comic, and I am on his side on this one. People wanna say its sour grapes because Mencia is a bigger name then he is, but if you think about it, Rogan hosted the wildly popular Fear Factor, was on NBC’s hit show, Newsradio, in the mid 90’s, and is heavily involved as an on air personality for UFC, which is growing by leaps and bounds. I don’t think the guy has a lot to be jealous of. I see where he comes from with this. If your a guy doing stand up, struggling with money, playing clubs on a nightly basis to hone your craft, write new material, trying to get a break, and some schmuck comes around, rips off your joke, and makes it big, wouldn’t you be pissed? Hes the guy in the office that catches wind of an idea that would help the company and runs to the boss with it, and gets all the praise and benefits from it. Thats what scumbags do. To rape someone else’s creativity, then use it as your own, and to BENEFIT from it? Its terrible, and its about time someone steps up and speaks out about this shit. If it stops someone from ripping others off, then good, we don’t need another Mencia, or Dennis Leary for that matter, who pretty much ripped off Bill Hicks’ entire act and lifestyle, just short of the dying part, which is really a shame.

2. His delivery.

Many people feel like hes a great performer, joke stealer or not, but I really don’t find him very entertaining. His delivery annoys me, he tries to get loud to prove his point, like it makes it more effective, it worked for Kinnison because he was brilliant. Mencia tries to get loud and throw some Latino slang at the end of his jokes to get a laugh, and I’ll admit, it gets over with most rubes. He tries to push himself soooooo hard as being controversial, and it shows, as his writing and general material, thats actually his, mind you, suffers. Jim Norton is MUCH more controversial, same with Doug Stanhope, and several other comics, they aren’t trying to ram how crazy they are down your throat, they use wit and good writing to get their points across, and if it pisses someone off or offends someone, all the better. I love offensive humor, disgusting jokes, but I don’t like it when someone is telling them for the sole purpose of being controversial, tell the joke if you think its funny, not because it might get your stupid face in a paper somewhere.

3. He’s Dave Chappelle, except less dark, and less funny.

Mencia got the Mind of Mencia show for one reason, and one reason only, Dave Chappelle left. They needed a replacement for the ratings being lost with Dave quitting, and here comes Carlos, with the same basic show Chappelle had. Kudos to Comedy Central for making it a success, not as big as Chappelle Show was, but Mind of Mencia has done well. If you’ll remember, when Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla left The Man Show, they tried to replace it with Doug Stanhope and, shockingly, Joe Rogan. The show failed miserably, and not because of Doug or Joe, or the material on the show, it was because everyone knew that was Adam and Jimmy’s show, and it was shitty of Comedy Central to try and use the same show that wasn’t really created by them. So, learning from their mistakes, instead of someone taking over Chappelle Show, they made up a “new” show, with another comics doing different sketches and bits. So, now we are “blessed” with Mind of Chappelle, errr, Mencia, and its just a shoddy knock off.

So when you wanna see, or hear some comedy, stop going for the guys like Mencia, who are hacks, and look into good comics, like Norton, Brian Regan, Rogan, Daniel Tosh, Stanhope, or several other comics that are legit. You can agree with me or not, it’s your call, but here are a few videos that you can check out.

Stealing from Bill Cosby

This is an Audio Clip of Mencia on a radio show about this whole thing. I apoligize for the awful radio show people, terrible fake laughs and a stupid cunt with an annoying voice. The fact they didn’t bring it up, and were laughing with him shows how fully phoney radio people are, with the exception of Opie and Anthony. Also, the Mikey Radio show?? What a terrible show name.

This is video of Joe Rogan outing Mencia on stage. I’m sure its slanted to one side, but make your own opinions.

Here is Mencia turning a Kinnison bit into a segment for his show.