I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
The beauty of comedy is, when people come to a comedy club, there is a certain veil of reality suspended. — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
When the comedy community turned on me, I had a lot of reflecting to do. — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes. — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
If I've got a black joke, and I can't tell it in Oakland, then I shouldn't tell the joke anywhere else. — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
I was only 20, 21. I was basically going to college to get me out of the ghetto. A friend suggested I try stand-up. — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
When somebody says that a comic steals jokes, it's the ultimate betrayal of comedy. — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
You can take my dirtiest, craziest joke, and I can break down in my head why there's a good, honest, honorable reason… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
I'm just trying to be funny, trying to make people laugh, and trying to make the world a better place through some… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
I am a product... I'm a comedian. I'm not curing cancer. In the end, I tell jokes. I make people laugh. I… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
If you ask me right now, you've seen the last of Mind of Mencia. I don't want to be a one-trick pony.… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
I don't think Latino; I think like me. If that happens to be Latino, then I guess that's me. But it doesn't… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
It's a pleasure to be doing a show for Comedy Central. Traditional networks would cast me as the head of a household… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
I know that if any other comedian came up to me questioning something I did or said, it would be literally settled… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
In all honesty, we don't know what's in the hearts of other men. All I know is that I respect comedy and… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
My comedy is about, lift yourself. See reality. Change the reality if you don't like it. But if you can't, then deal… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects, poor, I assumed that everybody understood… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects poor, I assumed that everybody understood… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't know anything about comedy and didn't know anything about comedians or what standup was. I grew up in… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
Listen, here's my questions to anybody when they talk about comedy. When you are with your friends who don't judge you, what… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
Everything I do is intended to make people laugh and think. I just think something is funny, it's not hurting anybody, not… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
Ten comics can say the same joke, and I'm the one who gets called a thief. — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
I will make a joke about any of my family members, about me, about my wife, if I really thought that I'm… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
Nobody calls me a racist when I do redneck jokes. Jeff Foxworthy can do as many 'You might be a redneck jokes' as he… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share
I am frail like everyone else, and I take that into account when I talk about things. — Carlos Mencia Copy Share
People live in a place called Tornado Alley - and they're surprised when they get hit by a tornado. I'm sorry when they get… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share
When I was younger, I was angry. I was boisterous and loud. I was on top of the mountain, screaming at everybody, 'Look at… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share
When you are younger, you pretend to believe, but you are proving it to everyone and to yourself. The change comes when you know… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share
Here's what I know about the business I am in. It's all based on money. It's all based on ratings. — Carlos Mencia Copy Share
I've gotten in trouble with every race you can imagine. They say, 'I can't believe you talked about this - you're racist.' And I… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share
My choices are made out of love. When I go on stage now, I want to make people happy. I mean, when I get… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share
My comedy is about, lift yourself. See reality. Change the reality if you don't like it. But if you can't, then deal with things… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share
I can't imagine how unbelievable it would be to go to the Great Barrier Reef. — Carlos Mencia Copy Share
The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to protect, you… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share
I'm a spiritual person: I believe that if you read the Bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you actually read… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share
At the end of the day, I don't think I am going to be judged by what happened in the 90's and 2000's, at… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share
