I have a question. I see references to Carlos Menica in the media as if there is some buzz going on and they advertise The Carlos Mencia Show incessantly on Comedy Central, but I do not know one person who watches it, including my all neicephews. What is his demographic?
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Scrappy - Aug 29, 2007 7:06:05 pm PDT #7632 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Susan W. - Aug 29, 2007 7:09:03 pm PDT #7633 of 10001
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DH's 27-year-old ex-frat boy youngest brother in Oklahoma loves Carlos Mencia.
Burrell - Aug 29, 2007 7:41:12 pm PDT #7634 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
The mythic Mencia watcher.
Hil R. - Aug 29, 2007 7:43:02 pm PDT #7635 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
When I was teaching middle school kids last summer, the one Hispanic kid in the class was given the nickname Carlos by the other kids because his accent sounded like Carlos Mencia's. (There was another kid nicknamed Jeff, for reasons I never did figure out.) I'm not sure if they actually watched his show or just heard him on all the commercials during other Comedy Central stuff they watched, though.
BigDuluth - Aug 29, 2007 7:44:13 pm PDT #7636 of 10001
"I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world"
His name isn't actually Carlos Mencia... it's Ned Holdis. He's from somewhere in the northern mid-west. He's an image he has sold to do well with the hispanic Californians.
I don't know anyone that thinks he's better than Chapelle
tommyrot - Aug 29, 2007 7:51:00 pm PDT #7637 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I am told that this video is a recent and wildly popular thing in Japan. Here's an English subtitled YouTube of "the butt biting bug song," Oshiri kajiri mushi. Video Link. It gives me acid flashbacks. "Tight asses and hard asses and beaten asses and shriveled asses." In what universe do these constitute appropriate lyrics for children's music?
erikaj - Aug 29, 2007 8:19:49 pm PDT #7638 of 10001
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Netflix says people here in Phoenix rent him all the time. I personally find his comedy obnoxious and racist, but apparently I really do rent movies as if I am from Baltimore.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2007 8:30:18 pm PDT #7639 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
This plantar shit sucks. Thanks for the tips.
If I don't get a handle on this, and quickly, I can't even teach krav.
Cashmere - Aug 29, 2007 8:30:29 pm PDT #7640 of 10001
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The guys I know that like him have rather immature senses of humor.
His name isn't actually Carlos Mencia... it's Ned Holdis. He's from somewhere in the northern mid-west. He's an image he has sold to do well with the hispanic Californians.
His mother's name is Mencia (Holness was his Honduran father's name). He's obviously latino. Kid Rock was raised in a rich, white Detroit suburb, not a trailer park. And Dave Chappell spent half his childhood in Yellow Springs, OH.
I think a lot of artists find a schtick and make it pay off.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2007 8:31:42 pm PDT #7641 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Dave Chappelle is who he pretends to be in his default standup image.