A Comedy Central Analogy - VGF

Bomby · 08-30-2006, 11:30 PM

Mind of Mencia is to Chappelle's Show as Be Cool is to Get Shorty.

Dee dee dee!

**Sean P Kelly** · 09-01-2006, 10:11 PM

I liked Be Cool

Bomby · 09-02-2006, 10:30 AM

So did I (mostly because Christina Milian = teh hawtness) but it wasn't anything close to Get Shorty.

The same way that Mind of Mencia can be funny at times but its mostly a cheap sequel to Chappelle's Show.

**Deku Trii** · 09-02-2006, 10:56 AM

I can't stand Carlos Mencia.

Bomby · 09-04-2006, 11:27 PM

Mencia has great delivery, but my main problems with him are that:

1) he has been known to steal from other comedians (including 12 whole minutes of dialogue from George Lopez).
2) he relies far too much on playing up his Honduran heritage. He's actually half-German, and his real name is not the hispanic-sounding Carlos Mencia but the extremely-European Ned Holness. He even used his real name on one episode of the show for a character who was a white historian.
3. his comedy is not as "equal-opportunity offensive" as he claims it is, with Hispanic and Black people recieving much harsher jokes than other groups of people.

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09-04-2006, 11:27 PM	#5
Bomby Song 2 : Whoo Hoo Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Mad City, WI Gender: Posts: 14,438 Thanks: 192 Thanked 420 Times in 299 Posts Blog Entries: 4 Points: 1,413.72 Bank: 1,677,553.97 Total Points: 1,678,967.69 Donate	Mencia has great delivery, but my main problems with him are that: 1) he has been known to steal from other comedians (including 12 whole minutes of dialogue from George Lopez). 2) he relies far too much on playing up his Honduran heritage. He's actually half-German, and his real name is not the hispanic-sounding Carlos Mencia but the extremely-European Ned Holness. He even used his real name on one episode of the show for a character who was a white historian. 3. his comedy is not as "equal-opportunity offensive" as he claims it is, with Hispanic and Black people recieving much harsher jokes than other groups of people.