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Carlos Mencia

(1967) Stand-up Comedian United States

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Carlos Mencia is a stand-up comedian from the United States.

Quick Facts About Carlos Mencia

Born: October 22, 1967
Nationality: United States
Profession: Stand-up Comedian

About Carlos Mencia

Ned Arnel Mencia known professionally as Carlos Mencía, is a Honduran-American comedian, writer, and actor. His style of comedy is often political and involves issues of race relations, Latin American culture, criminal justice, and social class. From 2005 to 2008, he hosted the Comedy Central show Mind of Mencia. Around the time of the show's cancellation, several comedians accused Mencía of plagiarism and stealing jokes.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Carlos Mencia

Nobody calls me a racist when I do redneck jokes. Jeff Foxworthy can do as many 'You might be a redneck jokes'…

Dare

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I am frail like everyone else, and I take that into account when I talk about things.

Everyone

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People live in a place called Tornado Alley - and they're surprised when they get hit by a tornado. I'm sorry when…

Live

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When I was younger, I was angry. I was boisterous and loud. I was on top of the mountain, screaming at everybody,…

Angry

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When you are younger, you pretend to believe, but you are proving it to everyone and to yourself. The change comes when…

Believe

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Here's what I know about the business I am in. It's all based on money. It's all based on ratings.

About

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I've gotten in trouble with every race you can imagine. They say, 'I can't believe you talked about this - you're racist.'…

Believe

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My choices are made out of love. When I go on stage now, I want to make people happy. I mean, when…

Choices

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My comedy is about, lift yourself. See reality. Change the reality if you don't like it. But if you can't, then deal…

Change

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I can't imagine how unbelievable it would be to go to the Great Barrier Reef.

Go

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The beauty of not growing up middle class is that you don't think like the middle class. You don't have anything to…

Anything

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I'm not good looking, but I'm not bad looking.

Bad

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I choose to live in a positive world and a positive presence.

Choose

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I'm a spiritual person: I believe that if you read the Bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you…

Beauty

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At the end of the day, I don't think I am going to be judged by what happened in the 90's and…

Careers

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I never, nor will I, put another person down to feel better about myself. I will live and die by what I…

Dies

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At the end of the day, my career is not going to be judged by one or two or three moments in…

Career

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Why are we rebuilding New Orleans? Whose idea was this, Aquaman?

Ideas

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I'm a teacher and a philosopher by nature... In the end, I'm trying to teach people to live a better life. And…

Better life

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I'm afraid of being poor; I'm afraid of living in the projects... I'm afraid of being thought as unsuccessful.

Afraid

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I'm a spiritual person, I believe that if you read the bible, you get what you want from it. But, when you…

And love

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Here, let's go to my dressing room, and I promise, I'll only put it in for a second.

Dressing room

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When white people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're homeless, when black people wear baggy clothing and speak gibberish they're called…

Black

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If you've never seen me perform live, I'm a must-see. I'm very funny. I have a different perspective sometimes on a lot…

America

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Here's the problem: People have completely and utterly forgotten one thing when it comes to communication - intent.

Communication

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