Sunday, August 3, 2008

When to Carlos? When not to Carlos? That my friend is the real question.

I have been saying that Carlos Mencia has been stealing people's material ever since he stepped into the limelight when Comedy Central needed a temporary replacement for Dave Chappelle during his dilemma. To start off Mister Carlos Mencia or should I say Mister Ned Arnel MencĂ­a (as it is shown on his birth certificate) is nothing more than a cookie cutter show made from the scraps of what was left over after Chappelle's departure from Comedy Central. From his stage to his show elements to the banter he occasionally does with members of the crowd all seem to have been stripped from Chappelle and given to Mencia(kind of like sloppy seconds type of mannerism.) Already well-established comedians such as George Lopez, Joe Rogan and Ari Shaffir have came forward all with allegations pointing to the plagiarist nature of Ned Mencia.
While at my cousin's house, who happens to be a fan of Ned, decided to make me watch one episode of Mind of Mencia. Sadly enough, he wanted to convert me into a "Ned-head" as I like to call them. Nevertheless, that particular episode that we happened to watch contained elements from Bill Cosby's Himself movie. This one particular element was the joke about the father and son duo, the father who put his son through hell trying to teach him to play football. The son in turns grows and develop his football skills, which leads him to play for a big college. The father watches every game the son plays in, then the son win the big bowl game and as he is interview they ask him who would he like to say how to and clearly his states "Hi Mom!!!!" Clearly ignoring his father and all that time he spent with son. The only real difference in how the joke is delivered, is that Ned states the boy goes on to the Nation Football League, whereas Cosby states the son only goes up to college. Thus proving that he does indeed steal from established comedians and there older material. I encourage any and all people to go to Youtube and watch things from other comedians and see if they can find any similarities between Ned's material and other comedians.

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