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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 12:59 AM
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Carlos Mencia is a fucking asshole
I'm waiting for Daily Show to come on, and I got the last 2 minutes of Carlos Mencia.

Jesus christ.
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 01:02 AM
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1. I have never watched him for more than a few minutes.
He's no Dave Chappelle.
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 01:04 AM
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3. he's a sexist pig
"Why do you women pluck your eyebrows? I DONT LICK YOU THERE!"

:eyes:
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Tom Yossarian Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 01:07 AM
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6. Not funny to me.
And I will giggle at lots of things with questionable taste.
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 01:10 AM
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8. me too
I love crass humor. But being offensive doesn't automatically mean you're funny...as he proves.
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 03:20 PM
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20. i giggled at that
oh well
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 01:04 AM
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2. luckily I timed it to turn on the TV two minutes later
Edited on Tue Mar-14-06 01:04 AM by LSK
So I dont know what show your talking about. :)
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minkyboodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 01:05 AM
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4. thank you
He is the latino version of Dennis Miller IMO....
completely worthless...
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 01:06 AM
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5. He's just a rehash of every racist joke I heard in 6th grade.
Just the same lame old crap, with an unconvincing
"It's-OK-When-I-Say-It-Because-I'm-A-Minority" veneer
used to excuse it.

He's not funny.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 11:49 AM
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11. That is his act in a nutshell
I'm willing to go along as long at is original and/or funny.
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KT2000 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 01:09 AM
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7. Caught him too
while waiting for the Daily Show.
It sounded like he stole his material from some 12 year olds.
Never again though, he is disgusting.
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Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 11:39 AM
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9. He used to be funny back in the day. n/t
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 11:47 AM
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10. What day?
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Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 03:05 PM
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18. 1993 HBO comedy 1/2 hour special. n/t
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Fenris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 11:50 AM
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12. He's just not funny. At all.
If he is a Hispanic answer to Dave Chappelle, I feel sorry for the Hispanic community.
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eyepaddle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 11:56 AM
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13. I've caught parts of his show on a few occasions
and yeah, I'd have to agree with you. I think I might have chuckled once or twice, but I have no idea at which joke--or maybe I didn't laugh at all. I pretty much click away and kill a few more minutes when his show is on.
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Hobarticus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 12:02 PM
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14. A latino Colin Quinn...
I'm all for different kinds of humor, but he's just as big a blowhard asshole as Quinn was.
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StaggerLee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 12:35 PM
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15. I saw one of his DVDs last month
My brother had borrowed it from a coworker.

In the video he did put Bush down but he also defended torture as acceptable. (the yaddah yaddah bullshit Iraq/911 ties) :eyes:

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Bunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 12:51 PM
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16. I don't like him either, and I've pontificated on this here in the past.
He tries so hard to be "politically incorrect" and "controversial" (and I purposely used those words in quotes because his act is so contrived), but just ends up straining to be even a little bit funny. Seeing how many times he can say the word "beaner" in a half-hour show just isn't funny to me. It's like he wants to be the Latino Dave Chappelle, as someone upthread stated, and it ain't working.



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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 12:53 PM
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17. Huh. Didn't expect this much hate.
I did get bored with Mind Of Mencia, and found it frequently offensive (and not in the good, mind-expanding, prejudice-challenging way). I thought, though, that it was also quite brilliant in places.

Poor man's Chappelle's Show, I thought. Perhaps it's gone downhill since I watched it.
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LaraMN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 03:11 PM
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19. Yeah, he's a piece of work.
I have a pretty high tolerance for "offensive" comedy, but he's repulsive and not remotely funny.
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dr.zoidberg Donating Member (612 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 03:31 PM
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21. He makes Larry the Cable Guy look like a genius.
Really, he does. Mencia is nothing but pointless dribble and has a distinct lack of humor.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 03:47 PM
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22. He's not just a racist fuckbag, he's a fucking IGNORANT racist fuckbag.
Edited on Tue Mar-14-06 03:48 PM by Rabrrrrrr
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Jokerman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-14-06 03:59 PM
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23. He makes me laugh, and he offends me.
Like most cutting edge comedy. I will agree that Carlos pushes the envelope more than most. There are times that he makes me uncomfortable but overall I think he is funny.

Like South Park and Chappell, Mencia refuses to play it safe and some people don't like that.

One thing I have noticed is that Mencia's comedy doesn't hold up as well over time. I can watch a South Park or Chappell episode rerun and still get a good laugh but Mencia episodes that I laughed at the first time around tend to bore me in reruns. Maybe it's just the shock factor.
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