Carlos Mencia yanked from Orpheus Parade (because of Katrina jokes)

[jobycom]

NEW ORLEANS -- Comedian Carlos Mencia was yanked Thursday from the Orpheus parade's list of celebrity riders for jokes made about Hurricane Katrina.

That's according to Orpheus officials who a day earlier announced Mencia as one of about a dozen celebrity guests slated to ride in this year's parade, which rolls through New Orleans on Feb. 23, the night before Mardi Gras.

Orpheus Captain Sonny Borey says the club became aware of "certain remarks Mr. Carlos Mencia has made in regards to New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina" and would not be riding in the parade because the krewe is "sensitive to the feelings of our community and the way our city is viewed."
http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/wwl020509cbmencia.226f3fc5.html

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Guess it wasn't enough that he sucks.

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Who did he steal them from? n/t

[blogslut]

2. LOL

:rofl:

[jobycom]

3. The RNC, judging by the only one I heard.

It was something like "How come black people could find buses to the Million Man March but couldn't find them to get away from Katrina?" Brilliant racist crap like that.

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Because ...

... competent people were in charge of getting people on the buses for the Million Man march?

[blondeatlast]

11. You're on a roll.

:thumbsup:

[eShirl]

9. excellent. n/t

[blondeatlast]

10. Ba. Da. Swish. LOL! nt

[tkmorris]

4. Carlos Mencia is the consumate tool

Fuck that guy.

[MrSlayer]

5. Mencia is a talentless, phoney hack.

And he acts as if he is a Mexican to justify his racist act. He's German/Honduran. He's also stolen a lot of his material. Fuck this guy.

[izquierdista]

6. It wasn't stolen

Sam Kinison and George Carlin and Richard Pryor won't be using that material anymore, so someone might as well........ :shrug:

[ColbertWatcher]

8. If it's coming out of his mouth someone else created it. n/t

[mrbscott19]

12. Not entirely true

Yeah Carlos has kept his career going by using other comedians stuff, but the stuff that got him famous was original. Go watch his first dvd "Not for the Easily Offended" and tell me 1 thing in that entire routine that he stole from someone else. Thats easily one of my favorite stand up routines. A must see in my opinion.

[jobycom]

15. Most comedians steal or borrow from other comedians. Few of them write all their own stuff.

They hire writers, and sometimes the writers are the ones who steal. And sometimes the writers sell the rights to their jokes to more than one person--they can do that legally, depending on how they sell them.

Robin Williams and Steve Martin have been accused of stealing other people's jokes, too, and if you watch enough standup, you'll hear the same jokes, even the same personalized stories about family, repeated over and over.

I haven't seen Mencia's "Not for the easily offended." I haven't liked what I have seen, most of the time. He's a cruel comedian who makes fun of people he believes he is smarter than, and often he doesn't seem any smarter, so it's like watching Bush talk down to people when he wasn't smart enough to. Some comedians, like George Carlin, can do that "I'm smart and everyone else is dumb" stuff because they sound smart, and their observations are smart, and they don't pick on stereotypes so much as individuals, or groups united by an action or attitude (like, say, racists) rather than by birth (as when Mencia mocks blacks or Hispanics).

Other comedians can be outrageous and offensive and still be funny, because they create a persona that itself is being mocked. When Andrew Dice Clay makes his sexist or racist comments, he is mocking the character he is playing, mocking the stereotypes he is using. Same with Lisa Lampenalli, or Larry the Cable Guy, or a few others.

But I don't see that with Mencia. I see a comedian making racist jokes because he thinks he's smart. I see a comedian mocking easy targets. I see a bully rather than a satirical caricature. His joke about "blacks" not being able to get on a bus out of New Orleans wasn't insightful, it wasn't self-mockery, it wasn't exposing a flaw in human character. It was just a mean, racist joke.

If his "Not for the easily offended" was better than that (and with such a banal title, I wonder), good. But that's what I've seen when I've watched him.

And it's not just political for me. There are liberal comedians I put in the same category. The deified Bill Hicks, for instance, I always thought of as banal and mean. Early Chris Rock and later George Carlin (although at the end he got better again) are other examples. Dennis Leary, too, although he has his moments.

Just my thoughts and preferences. I doubt anyone read that far.

[Hugabear]

13. Mencia is an unfunny racist hack.

Most of his comedy derives from making lame racist jokes. The sooner he crawls back into his hole, the better.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

14. I completely agree. I am disgusted he hides it all behind his "I'm a Mexican so it's OK" act.