Carlos Menstellia

[benagain]

Well i saw carlos on a hbo or some other hour special and thought he was pretty damn funny. That was a number of years before he got mind of mencia and the comedy central special. When I saw him again and his jokes were the same, I just thought he was just ok.
When I found out he was stealing jokes and denying it, I thought he was a pos. Jokes are gonna get stolen from time to time maybe by accident (everyone is inspired by someone), but to deny it even when busted is pretty lame.

benagain Reviewed by benagain on 02-21-2007. Carlos Menstellia So. The rest of the media has put thier foot down on the subject. How does everyone here feel? If you haven't heard, then I'll try and bring you up to date: Carlos Mencia (mexican guy with a show on comedy central) has been outed by Joe Rogan (fear factor, ultimate fighting, etc). Aparently carlos has been stealing material for years, but no one wanted to say anything. Also, Carlos's name isn't Carlos at all. It's Ned. I never liked the guy and now I know why. I had allready heard it Rating: 5

[KOZMO]

the half german part hasn't been proved

[Gatekeeper777]

I dont give a shit if his name is PETER and he is from YOUR ASSCRACK!
he's a funny bastard thats why i watch NED.
Many show business people take on new names. carlos...aka ned is no differant.
NEXT!

[benagain]

the half german part hasn't been proved

As far as I know, much of nothing other than his name being Ned and his joke stealing is known fact. He may really be mexican for all I know. I'm not that sure about what that means if he isn't mexican. Does that mean hes racist?? I know that I'm white and if I went up there and ripped on people like he does, I'd be burnt alive. Maybe hell come to his senses and admit about the joke thing.

[benagain]

I agree about the name change thing. I could really care less. Thought it was worth mentioning though (to tell the full story). The joke thing however just offends the hell out of me. A couple jokes I heard were pretty generic, but the wall around mexico was pretty on the head. The problem here is that when you have a guy like carlos/ned/whatever, his whole act is built on delivery (a large part of comedy). Joe even told Mencia that he thought he was great at delivering a joke, but you can't take credit for the writing.

It's like the guys on SNL. Occationally you might have a skit idea, but there are teams of writers involved in the process. The comedians go on stage and deliver the jokes, but the writers still get thier names in the credit. Carlos is essentially doing the same thing of recording a cover of a song and telling the world you wrote it. Say I redid a cover of some beatles song and it sounds so different/better than the orignal, that I just put my name down as writing it. People would flip and I'd get sued silly.

[FUNKNUGGET]

I never liked mencia, especially mind of mencia. Whenever I would get stoned and watch him i would get especially pissed off for some reason. Now I have a real reason to hate him, besides his lame comedy. Actually it's not even his, so wtf :wtf:

[benagain]

im not sure about the wall around mexico joke not be generic, anyone could come up with that joke... alot of people say that just joking around because of the immigration "problem" were having right now...

But the Ari guy is the 1st known comic to perform it. Like I said, commics are accidently use other peoples jokes from time to time, but they allways own up to it and apologize. It's the right thing to do. For some reason Carlos thinks he's above it.

[FreeVenice]

Also...Carlos isn't mexican. He's half german half honduran.

Yeah I hate that guy, I know some jackass just like him. He never clamed to be Mexican, he just never mentioned he was half German. About his name being Ned, most people change there name when they go into the bizz. I'm glad there is a good chance that his career is over. Joe is a real loser though, his career should of been over years ago. . .

Also SNL is a bad example since most of the comedians are co-writers. More like Mad TV. lol

[benagain]

Yea like I said I have no problem with using unorignal material, but you have to give props to those who wrote them. Listen to some comics sitting around talking about material. They're allways referring to these obscure people who are well known to comics, but can't deliver jokes quite good enough to make it to the public eye.
I guess I just don't like the idea of Carlos sitting rich and some other poor guy eating mac n cheese for dinner sleeping in a one bed motel room 300 nights a year. He's a made man, he could at least give props to the 'smaller' guys.

[suhl]

he shouldnt have stolen the shit, but whatever it was, but whatever it was is so bad when delivered by him i cant imagine it being good in the first place. and yes he did change his name to carlos to seem more mexican or maybe not changed but its a stage name. the guys show was a very very very VERY poor replacement for chappelles show by comedy central. basically i think this is just stereotype jokes i heard in junior high with a national audience