Carlos Mencia Yanked From Mardi Gras Because Of His Stupid Katrina Jokes
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.)
Posted by Lindsay at 3:30 PM in Justice, Stand Up Comedy
Tags: Carlos Mencia | Mardi Gras
gross.
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Seeing him on that "Make 'Em Laugh" documentary made me wanna break something...
"Bruce...Pryor...Carlin...Mencia?" ugh
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yeah, they all suck. [except for pryor]
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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.
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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.
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Hey, cool backwards baseball cap, Carlos Mencia!
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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.
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Yeah, I can tell by how you used the word "beaner" three times in your comment.
p.s. You are retarded.
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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.
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Um, dudes. Ben is joking.
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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.
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Anecdotally - I worked with at-risk Latino youth for a few years and they constantly referred to themselves as "beaners".
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Sorry, the sarcasm went over my head on that one. Watching Carlos Mencia temporarily destroyed my sense of humor.
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is Carlos Mencia the worst?
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You fuckin' know he is.
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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!
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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.
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I really hope you are not being serious...:-(
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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?
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He's my hero.
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is it just me or does his body move like midgets.
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"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!"
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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.
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Oh yeah and I'm Mexican... so i should probably have written beaner all over my last post XD
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I'm apparently also super repetitive
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Good. He's an idiot.
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Commedy wise.....i did not think the joke was funny like other jokes he has made and i dont even think he meant for it be funny BUT what he said was soooo true. so he was stating a fact and his opinion........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. Sorry Carlos only they in NO can joke about the storm not anyone else and believe me they do all the time. But for the love of God let anyone say something and it is them being stupid or a racist. If this country wants equal rights for everyong then let EVERYONE be entitled to an opinion not only when it suits one self. If Caros had said it was the white mans fault that so many blacks got left in and died in NO druing Katrina he would have been a friggin hero amoung the blacks...... The truth hurts and every race needs to stop being a bunch of babies about everything........Men fought and died so that we can speak our mind and so that men like Carlos can get on stage and live out his passion of being a comedian......New orleans you need to get over the storm alraeady...........Stop using that as your crutch to pisss and moan about everything......and to claim how unfair everything is.......Life aint fair for God sakes.......But it is what it is.......EVERY ONE has had some sort of tragedy in life, yours just happen to so many at one time.......All my lifes tragedy's sucked too and i have to hear things from people that bothers me sometimes but oh well, i have to move on....And i Have lived through more hurricanes than you people in NO have....and i have lost chit too and FEMA didnt kiss my butt and replace crap i still dont have things.....But i have to move on like you guys need to also.....Carlos you didnt want to do that parade anyways........you would have had to censor your own self. for the babies.........God forbid if there was a wind during the parade and you would have said something like >>>>>Damn that wind is blowing....." they may have shot you for that.......Called you a racist for sure........but if the wind blew a NO native residents hair they could state the fact the wind is blowing.....no problem
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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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Have you ever been through a hurricane? i can assure you that if you really want to get out.........you can and you will! no if ands or buts about it...and why is the federal govt responsible for telling people to leave? and to make sure they leave? when does personal responsibility kick in? I am soooo sick and tired of that same old tired statement that FEMA should have gotten these people out. BS, that is nothing but BS. and it is a cope out for lazy people who dont want to take responsibility for themselves. if that is the case then the Feds should be telling what idiots can have children what morons cant. But no one wants them to do that though do they? but do make sure these idiots with kids get out of a storms path........i thought part of being a parent was to make sure your kids are safe at times like hurricanes and in addition to every frigging other day of the week. but no some how that falls on the shoulder of the govt. We have 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...the least you can do to thank these men and women is by taking care of your dumb self's at a time like that......that would be the honorable and respectful thing to do after all. Having all them over in Afghanistan and Iraq isn't enough for the govt to do for people here, now they want the govt to hold their grown ass hands in a storm like a bunch of two year olds.....BULLCHIT..grow up take responsibility for yourself........and most of all for your own children for God sakes. If not for Gods sake then for they sake of a child would be nice. That leads me back to the statement of the govt telling what morons cant have kids.....it would be the ones who don't have the sense enough to get them out of harms way. I was sick as hell and in the hospital when Rita rolled in.......i got my sick ass out of bed and went and got my kid and the rest of my family and got the hell out....there is no excuse for a perfectly healthy person not to, so your whining and crying and excuse making is not flying with me. I did not need any city, county, federal employee to tell me to leave, i knew i need to get my kid and go.....that was common sense........and no by any means am i rich and could afford to just up and leave and pay for god know how much gas i would need and a hotel for god knows how long but i managed.......i do not spend my money like i live high on the hog in hurricanes season.....that's a given when your a poor chump like me in a hurricane zone.....and that was not the first hurricane i have to flee from so i have done this numerous times and each time.......I LEFT........broke but i left......you find a way to go.....if your that in fear of your life and your kids life........you find a way.......so take your kum by ya bs and feed it to some other bleeding heart that wants to buy into your victim BS because that is all it is....BS..... and if the govt is doing such a lousy job at protecting idiots from hurricanes (besides the begging and pleading and offers of rides out of town) why don't you and some of your bleeding heart buddies pitch in and rent some vans......buses......suv's...and go down and offer these people a ride? different story when it involves your wallet and time huh? oh did i fail to mention......i gave a neighbor a ride with us in my car that was stuffed to the gills? have you been down to help these people rebuild? how much did you donate to the red cross? are you sending any type of help? i bet not.......but your exempt from practicing what you sit on your perch and preach...better to sit by and pass judgment and ramble on about something you know nothing about......
my philosophy about living in hurricane zones........plan and prepare for the worst and hope for the best....poverty sucks i know.....i am not rich by any means and i struggle to get by but damnit getting by is better than dying in a storm unnecessarily or because i was going to prove to fema that they should have helped me..........i dont depend on uncle sam and i am alive....poor,,, but alive.....i bet if you was to ask the people who are dead now from storms they would tell you they would have found a way out....I also have lived in upstate NY where horrible snow storms and ice storms are the normal there and I know Zilt about being in those storms.......but i got the info i needed to keep me and the kiddo alive and safe and i did just that.....i didn't go running to the govt to save us before or after.......odd how personal responsibility can keep a person alive.....
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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.
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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.
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tl;dr. Also, Carlos Mencia is the absolute worst. At everything.
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Carlos Mencia doesn't care about black people.
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Most fascinating thing about Donna's comments? She types "bullchit" and "your self's" and other hilarious things, but then absolutely nails "Afghanistan."
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Oh look. Dane Cook is imitating a latino man. Cute.
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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.
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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!
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Is Carlos Mencia as out of touch as Gwyneth Paltrow? I don't know, but yes.
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Carlos Mencia is the Larry The Cable Guy of Comedy.
(See what I did there? No?)
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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
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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?
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Dear New Orleans,
On behalf of me, your good places.
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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.
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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.
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speaking as a person that lost everything in Katrina, this is still funny. Lighten up people
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