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Posted on Feb 6th, 2009 by Lindsay
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Finally, a tiny bit of justice for the citizens of New Orleans. The AP:
Comedian Carlos Mencia was yanked Thursday from a Mardi Gras parade’s list of celebrity riders for jokes made about Hurricane Katrina.
This is so unfair! Carlos just says what we think but don’t say! And what other comedians both think and say, but don’t get paid for. After the jump, one of Carlos’s stupid Katrina stand-up routines.
Notice he refers to the hurricane as “The Tsunami”:
Also yanked from the parade: the guy who originally wrote that stupid, unfunny joke. (Via Punchline Magazine.)
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gross.
Seeing him on that “Make ‘Em Laugh” documentary made me wanna break something…
“Bruce…Pryor…Carlin…Mencia?” ugh
yeah, they all suck. [except for pryor]
i wish carlos mencia was in the tsunami. you know, so that he would be dead?
i actually mean to say tsunami, too, not hurricane. way more people died in the tsunami.
He’s a disgrace to fat party animals in hawaiian shirts everywhere. He’s not funny and not even wearing a hawaiian shirt. Double fail.
Hey, cool backwards baseball cap, Carlos Mencia!
You guys just don’t get it cos you aren’t a beaner like me. I bet you all are laughing at this behind your monitors but you pretend you don’t like it in the comments for all us ethnic folk. Oh. And us beaners use the word beaner alot. That’s not a made up thing at all.
Yeah, I can tell by how you used the word “beaner” three times in your comment.
p.s. You are retarded.
I can’t tell if you’re joking or not, but as a Mexican American and resident of San Antonio (which has a ginormous Hispanic population), I can tell you that I have never heard a Mexican American use the term ‘beaner’, and I know Chicanos from all walks of life. That said, I don’t hate Carlos Mencia’s comedy because it is offensive, I hate it because it’s not funny. He goes after the most superficial stereotypes with his comedy (blacks are good at sports, Mexican’s like beans, etc. – not funny), and even then, he usually misses. As opposed to someone like George Lopez, whose standup is hilarious because it delves into the deepest aspects of Chicano culture, so deep in fact, that it becomes universal to anyone who has ever been a part of a community or a family or the human race. George Lopez> Hurricanes> Carlos Mencia.
Um, dudes. Ben is joking.
Sorry Ben, I was in my “local news website ” posting mode, rather than my videogum posting mode. I’ll adjust my sarcasm settings accordingly in the future.
Anecdotally – I worked with at-risk Latino youth for a few years and they constantly referred to themselves as “beaners”.
Sorry, the sarcasm went over my head on that one. Watching Carlos Mencia temporarily destroyed my sense of humor.
is Carlos Mencia the worst?
You fuckin’ know he is.
I love how he acts like that tsunami of a joke bombed because it made white audience members uncomfortable. Since I watched this in the privacy of my home and no black people are around, I was able to laugh and laugh and laugh. Those black people and their buses! They are so like that! Lots of people and their loved ones died! LOL!
I can personally attest to the hilarity of Hurricane Katrina. I went down for a week to help clean up the destruction in April, and the 3-year-old bags of shit left in the street after the waters receded, the broken homes and huge immediate population decrease the city will never recover from were excellent.
I really hope you are not being serious…:-(
Whoops! That was in reply to Ben! I seriously hope he doesn’t believe that Mexicans run around saying “beaner” after eveeryword like we are freaking Pokemon.
I really hope that he was trying to make a joke and, just like his mentor Carlos Mencia, FAILED Miserably!
Replying to Ben using Ben Speak:
It’s ok Ben. We can’t all be funny beaners- but keep trying (please don’t) and maybe someday you’ll earn your sombrero. “BEANERS” para la Vida!!! (i’m going to go cry now) ¿entiende?
He’s my hero.
is it just me or does his body move like midgets.
“And seein’ you there
With a smile on your face
Makes me shout
This must be the place.”
Then I stop right in the middle and then
I open with some jokes. Now, that’s where
I need you, right there. For instance, like
I say, “Hey, I just got back from Canada,
you know, they speak a lotta French up
there. The only way to remember Jeanne
d’Arc means the light’s out in the bathroom!”
Wow since he got kicked out of the parade he should have at least made the joke funny.
The joke would have been worth getting kicked out of the parade if it was actually funny.
Oh and Carlos Mencia isn’t funny, he just yells a lot.
Oh yeah and I’m Mexican… so i should probably have written beaner all over my last post XD
I’m apparently also super repetitive
Good. He’s an idiot.
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“i dont even think he meant for it be funny”
Then why was he saying it at his comedy show? And hopping around and giggling?
“BUT what he said was soooo true.”
No, it is not.
“blacks FOUND a way to go to DC for the million man march and the inauguration. But let a killer storm stare them right in the face and they just let the bus roll on by them without a thought of getting on it.”
It’s great how you and Carlos Mencia act as if every black person in the country went to D.C., or could even afford to do so. Especially since you actually believe it as fact, even though Mencia was making a “joke” and (I hope) doesn’t actually think that.
The fact is, FEMA knew that a hurricane hitting the region would cause severe damage and that the plans for the emergency weren’t good enough. After an evacuation drill, officials in New Orleans estimated that only a third of the population would be able to evacuate before the storm hit. Basically, anyone who didn’t own a car, and many people did not own cars, would not be able to leave. But no adequate plans were made to help the homeless and car-less get out. And that was mostly the poor, black population, so many people couldn’t help but wonder if the government thought that these people were expendable. The only plans they made were too little, too late.
The problem is not that people “let the bus roll on by them,” but that, for many people, there was no bus.
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My mistake, I should have known better than to argue with someone who clearly doesn’t comprehend the signifigance of Hurricane Katrina or the people involved. Go back to watching Carlos Mencia.
Yeah, nope. Why can’t you honor and respect the men and women over seas dying to make sure you can sit your stupid self’s here to sit in the path of killer storms.(What?) If you are poor and don’t have a car or an available bus seat (moron!), then make sure you have a racist, mean-spirited neighbor who can give you, one person, a ride. So quit whining and kum by yaing about one of the largest natural disasters in our nation’s history that destroyed a huge chunk of an entire city.
tl;dr. Also, Carlos Mencia is the absolute worst. At everything.
Carlos Mencia doesn’t care about black people.
Most fascinating thing about Donna’s comments? She types “bullchit” and “your self’s” and other hilarious things, but then absolutely nails “Afghanistan.”
Oh look. Dane Cook is imitating a latino man. Cute.
Hey Donna,
You are a miserable person. And yes, probably a racist (sorry, its true!!). That can be assumed based solely on your apparent adoration of Carlos Mencia (the most horrible racist comedian out there, actually), putting aside your crazy, ignorant rant.
Sure New Orleans did the right thing, but he’s been more consistently offensive to comedy, and comedy still lets him around. Situation needs to be rectified.
Good “how comedy-ey is this” gauge: does the comedian trust their material enough to say it normally or are they saying it like a fucking clown? Mencia = LOSE!
Is Carlos Mencia as out of touch as Gwyneth Paltrow? I don’t know, but yes.
Carlos Mencia is the Larry The Cable Guy of Comedy.
(See what I did there? No?)
carlos mencia is incredibly not funny but i’ll be damned if he doesn’t say i’m oversensitive because i think he’s not funny
Dear Donna,
We here in New Orleans wish that you would take personal responsibility for being such a chitbag of a human being and kill your self’s.
Sincerely,
All of New Orleans
P.S. “Live out his passion of being a comedian.” Look at that. You actually wrote that. What are you even doing here?
Dear New Orleans,
On behalf of me, your good places.
This whole thread is tldr. But I will say that Carlos Mencia will try to convince himself that people at home are laughing, but really they are just as not entertained as the people there.
people at home laugh at carlos mencia. he IS funny…except to pc people. and donna is right. the chocolate city mayor of n.o., sugar ray nagin, could have gotten all out with the public transit busses and the school busses that he let go under water. the whole thing is the fault of those who stayed when one can actually outwalk an approaching hurricane and the black mayor who panicked. as for mencia, it’s ok for black and jewish comedians to pick on people and religion, but god help your ass if you joke about a black or jew.i.e. don rickles…dave chapelle, and all the black comedians who have picked on “whitey” for umpteen years. carlos’ main point is that whites are sissies for NOT making ethnic jokes. in a melting pot mentality nation, he should be king of mardi gras. he is no racist. he is a realist.
speaking as a person that lost everything in Katrina, this is still funny. Lighten up people