Warning: the above video contains repeated profanity and offensive language. In the Showtime documentary I Am Comic , Mencia goes so far as to admit, without question, not only that he steals jokes, but that he will always steal funny material. Mencia compares the practice to rappers sampling tracks, while missing the obvious point that rappers have to pay for the rights to copyrighted material to use in their music. Instead of helping, his brazen attitude further tarnished his name within the comedy industry.
Mencia also made several different jokes about Hurricane Katrina victims in and His off-color material even got him uninvited to Mardi Gras in While not nearly as bad as having a career in tatters after accusations of plagiarism, getting uninvited to a party hosted by arguably the most open-invitation event in America had to sting a little. Mencia is frequently named as one of the most hated comics of his time along with Dane Cook , with critics citing his use of racial jokes as a crutch.
Comedians primarily despise him because of his joke-stealing, and even moreso because of his casual attitude about it.
He has been confronted on numerous occasions , and has yet to make peace with the comedy community at large. Whether he can turn things around and improve industry relationships has yet to be seen. After his fall from grace, Mencia decided to work on himself. He eventually lost 70 pounds after a diabetic friend who was on his way to have a toe removed called him fat. He also saw a therapist to help him work through his career fallout. In a interview before a Charleston, SC performance, he admitted:.
Though he has shied away from television work for some time, Mencia may have not one, but two television shows in the works. Mencia claims the first could be a dark, edgy half-hour program. He offered few details as to what this tonally different show would be about.
The second show he briefly discussed would be in the same vein as Mind of Mencia. The show would tackle current events, presumably using his social commentary as a starting point. But when the supernova streaking above all of their bitter and jealous peers is a Dane Cook or a Carlos Mencia instead of, say, an unimpeachable exemplar of talent and integrity like Marc Maron or Louis CK, the jealousy and resentment tend to be extra fierce.
He posits Mencia as a man who had performing standup for roughly as long as he has, to the point where they taped HBO specials in the same city at the same time roughly two decades ago.
No, Maron is intent on giving Mencia the benefit of the doubt, on treating him like a contemporary with a unique point of view and fascinating perspective. With the benefit of hindsight, it feels like Mencia was less interested in opening himself up to Maron on a profound, existential level, than in delivering a convincing performance as a comedian who is misunderstood and unfairly maligned but is ultimately innocent of the crimes of which he has been accused.
He just gives Mencia a decent length of rope that Mencia immediately sets about hanging himself with. As a ridiculous illustration, Mencia imagines a man at one of his shows standing up and praising Mencia for using his art to convey that every hispanic, without fail, from the beginning of time, wears sombreros, drinks, and is an illegal immigrant. Mencia imagines himself telling off this phantom quasi-fan of his by angrily articulating that, no, not every hispanic behaves that way, and the fantasy Mencia fan is wrong for making such an extreme generalization.
In his most hubristic moment, Mencia tells Maron that if he wanted to, he could use his place of power, prominence and influence within the hispanic community to whip up anti-white fury among his fanbase, but that he purposefully chooses not to, because, like Spider-man, Mencia realizes that with great power comes great responsibility.
Mencia realizes that it would be irresponsible for him to use the enormous power he accrued telling racist jokes to agitate for a race war pitting hispanics against caucasians.
Although most people agreed with Joe at the time, his agents dropped him shortly after the incident. As the agency represented both Joe and Mencia, they likely had to pick a side, and went with the one bringing in the most money. To make things worse, the comedy club, one of the biggest clubs in the world, banned Joe for 2 years for making the video public on youtube.
In , Mencia made a controversial comeback on TV after having been brandished as a joke thief. In an interview he reveals that he had been in therapy due to accusations of plagiarism. This did not stop him from admitting to joke thievery:.
One year later, one big event made Joe finally return to the Store: One of his best friends, Ari Shaffir, was filming his Comedy Central special. As we all know, Joe eventually prevailed and became one of the biggest stand-up comedians of all time. Whether or not you like his humour, we have to admit that he risked everything and deserves respect for it. As to Carlos Mencia: his career never fully recovered from the incidents. Joe Rogan is very popular for his podcast and mma involvement.
But his stand up success has been very minimal. Good for him but pumping him up as a great stand up comedian is comedy in itself. Notify me of follow-up comments by email.
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