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07-13-2008, 03:08 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | | Ok, which of you is it?
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Because somebody is still watching Carlos Mencia's show.
Somebody has to be, because they are apparently still making new episodes.
I know we've got 200 channels that need to fill 24 hours a day, but how does that show stay on and Arrested Development gets canceled? |
07-13-2008, 03:13 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Lincolnshire, UK | | | from what i can tell the american tv network business works in very mysterious ways. for some reason they cancel all the best shows and let all the crap run forever. |
07-13-2008, 03:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Orlando | | | Because the masses are uneducated and like that garbage? Shows with intellectual appeal go over the heads of so many people so they're not worth anything to the station for advertising purposes?
Sucks, but true...
FWIW, his show is horrible but his old standup isn't quite as bad... some of it is even, dare I say... funny.
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07-13-2008, 03:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Ventura County | | | Haha the new episodes are even worse.
And why do they have him keep dressing up all of a sudden?
I don't know anyone that watches the show by the way.
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07-13-2008, 03:17 PM
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07-13-2008, 03:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Bos, MA | | | if more latinos had their own shows, carlos mencia would not have a career.
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07-13-2008, 03:41 PM
| | | | I want Chappelle back.
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07-13-2008, 04:05 PM
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07-13-2008, 04:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan | | I use to watch Mencia... and then I realized that he has no jokes.
Ok we get it... Mexicans cross the border and hang around Home Depot. Quote:
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07-13-2008, 04:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: On The Bayou | | | I think he's funny. A little goes a long way...as with most. |
07-13-2008, 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by TheBigO Because somebody is still watching Carlos Mencia's show.
Somebody has to be, because they are apparently still making new episodes.
I know we've got 200 channels that need to fill 24 hours a day, but how does that show stay on and Arrested Development gets canceled? | Excellent question. I've watched his show for a couple minutes a few times (just to make sure the first one wasn't a fluke) and it was hideous.
Of course, the ratings hurdle for Mencia to stay on the air at Comedy Central must be a lot lower than it was for Arrested Development on Fox.
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07-13-2008, 04:20 PM
| | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | Quote:
Originally Posted by KeithBMI I use to watch Mencia... and then I realized that he has no jokes.
Ok we get it... Mexicans cross the border and hang around Home Depot.
I was lucky enough to see Mitch Hedberg live. I'll never forget it. | In college I used to practically live at the Punch Line in San Francisco on weekends and occasionally performed. I hung out with a lot of comedians after their sets. Offstage Mitch was shy, really polite and a lot more serious about his craft than people might think. Years later I saw him in Sacramento with Lewis Black and Dave Attell and afterwards he remembered me or was at least nice enough to pretend he did. |
07-13-2008, 04:34 PM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | Comedy Central's first foul was to air the toilet miss that is MadTv.
Until they pull reruns of that off the air, Mencia's a choirboy.
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07-13-2008, 04:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: 97465 | | | I'm the slime.....
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Originally Posted by TheBigO Carlos Mencia's show. | who is Carlos Mencia? 
"Project Runway" is a real dog. My sister and her husband watch it religiously. 
I mean Heidi Klum is OK, but she's hardly on it. It's mostly grown men crying. 
I'm kinda liking "Burn Notice" on USA. but yeah - in general - tv sux 
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07-13-2008, 04:43 PM
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Originally Posted by HashbrownCOBM I want Chappelle back. | Yeah, but he realized that what he was doing was only fueling the stereotype war, and not hurting it like he wanted to. If Mencia truly felt the way he said he did about stereotypes, he'd follow in the footsteps of Chappelle. |
07-13-2008, 04:57 PM
| | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | | As far as I know Dave Chappelle has never really explained why he left his show. As best I can tell, it was a combination of burnout (he and Neil were really the only writers) and feeling like he didn't have the level of control he wanted.
As for Mencia, as far as I can tell, he loves stereotypes. Making (unfunny) jokes based on them is his only shtick. |
07-13-2008, 05:08 PM
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Originally Posted by TheBigO As far as I know Dave Chappelle has never really explained why he left his show. As best I can tell, it was a combination of burnout (he and Neil were really the only writers) and feeling like he didn't have the level of control he wanted.
As for Mencia, as far as I can tell, he loves stereotypes. Making (unfunny) jokes based on them is his only shtick. | He did an interview talking about why he left. He left because his plan for starting the show was to make fun of stereotypes and play them off as stupid. All it did was add fuel to the fire, so he quit. |
07-13-2008, 05:11 PM
| | Notes we play > Gear we play them on | | Join Date: Sep 2000 Location: Wisconsin | | | Isn't funny how that works? I don't know a single person that watches American Idol, but apparently it's still more popular than air. Similarly, I don't know a single person that thinks Carlos Mencia is funny, but there he is. |
07-13-2008, 06:25 PM
| | | | All of his jokes comes down to: 1: making fun of gays
2: BEANNNNERRRR
3: DERDERDERRRRRRRRRRRRR
He is not worthy of a life -_-
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