Carlos Mencia - Accusations of Plagiarism

Carlos Mencia was accused of plagiarism a few times. The first time, Carlos Mencia was accused by Joe Rogan who posted on his website an article in which he states that Carlos Mencia stole jokes from different comedians. Joe Rogan also confronted Carlos Mencia on the stage at Comedy Store and then posted a video of the altercation and on his blog, he compared video clips of Carlos Mencia's with those of others comedians.

Another comedian that accused Carlos Mencia of plagiarism was the great comedian George Lopez, who in "the Howard Stern show" accused Carlos Mencia of stoling a 13 minutes material and put it in Carlos Mencia HBO special. George Lopez and Carlos Mencia had also an physical altercation over those accusations and George Lopez specified that the joke he accused Carlos Mencia of palgiarism was a Raco Bell joke.

After that, the comedian Ted Sarnowsky stated that this joke was first performed by him in 1998, o radio and that George Lopez, who was at that time the radio station's resident comic had used it without his permission. Persmission that Ted Sarnowsky claims he had given to Carlos Mencia.

The accusations of plagiarism on Carlso Mencia continued with an accusation that he had stolen one of Bill Cosby's routine in Carlos Mencia's stand up comedy show No Strings Attached. The routine was similar to one of Bill Cosby's routine from Himself. Carlso Mencia stated for Los Angeles Times, that he regrets the similarities with Bill Cosby's routine, but he had never seen the film.

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Carlos Mencia Personal Life

Carlos Mencia, by his real name Ned Arnel Mencia, was born on 22nd of October 1967 in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, being the son of an Mexican mother and a Honduran father. Carlos Mencia was the seventeenth of eighteen children of Magdalena Mencia, who refused to give her son his biological father's, Roberto Holness, last name, because of a domestic fight that she have had with him.

So, in Carlos Mencia birth certificate appears Ned Arnel Mencia, but out of respect for his father, Roberto Holness, he went by his father name until the age of 18, being known as Ned Holness. When Carlos Mencia was only three moths old, his parents send him to his aunt and uncle, in the United States of America.Carlos Mencia was raised by them in Maravilla Projects in Los Angeles, California. Because was difficult to stay out of trouble, as Carlos Mencia later stated, and because his family wanted to avoid the gang culture, the teenager Carlos Mencia returned to Honduras for a while.

When he later came back to Los Angeles, Carlos Mencia was promoted directly to the tenth grade, because of his high educational evolution. After graduating from Garfield High School, Carlos Mencia went to California State University, Los Angeles, from where he majored in electical engineering.Carlos Mencia married Amy, they now live in California and they have one child , Luca Pablo Mencia, born on 14th of December 2006.

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Carlos Mencia - Career

Carlos Mencia's stand up comedy career began at The Laugh Factory, a comedy club. Carlos Mecia first did stand up comedy on amateur night and after that, the comedian showcasted at The Comedy Store, where he became a regular. Ned Holness, better known as Carlos Mencia was named from Buscado Estrellas, "International comedy Grand Champion", but only after the comedian became a success in L.A.

 

After the L.A. circuit success, Carlos Mencia had many appearances in "Living Color", "Moesha","The Arsenio Hall show" or "An Evening at the Improv". In 1994, Carlos Mencia was also the host of the Loco Slam HBO latino comedy series and in 1997 hosted Latino Laugh Festival. One year later, in 1998 Carlos Mencia was chosen to host Funny is Funny on Galavision.

In 2000, was released by Warner Records, Carlos Mencia's comedy album "Take a Joke, America" and he continued to do stand up comedy so well, that in 2001 Carlos Mencia along with Freddy Soto and Pablo Francisco toured as "The Three Amigos", a big success in the stand up comedy world.

In 2002, Carlos Mencia's breakthrough happened along with comedian's performance on Comedy Central Presents. Besides television shows like Moesha or The Shield, Carlos Mencia lend his voice between 2001 and 2005, to Felix in the animated The Proud Family. In 2002, Carlos Mencia won a CableACE Award nomination for Best Stand-Up Comedy Special for his HBO special.

In 2002 was released Carlos Mencia's comedy album America Rules, followed by his 2003 Unmerciful. Also in 2004, was released the album Down To The Nitty Gritty, also on DVD and in 2005 had the premier Carlos Mencia big stand up comedy succes , the album "Not for The Easily Offended", which was released on DVD the same year.

In 2004, took place the first talks between Comedy Central and Carlos Mencia about his own show, but things were in stand by until 2005. Only after Dave Chappelle left Dave Chappelle's Show in March 2005, Comedy Central announced Carlos Mencia of his own comedy show Mind of Mencia. Carlos Mencia's comedy show Mind of Mencia was a mix of sketch comedy and stand up comedy, very similar to Chappelle's Show. After a moderate first season, in 2006, Carlos Mencia's  video Mind of Mencia became the second highest rated program on Comedy Central, after South Park. Carlos Mencia's comedy show Mind of Mencia was brought back for a third season the same summer.

In 2006, was released Carlos Mencia's video on DVD No Strings Attached, a great stand up comedy recorded live in San Francisco and even though Carlos Mencia was voted into 2nd place of Top 25 stand up comics on Comedy Central in 2006, Maxim named Carlos Mencia the 12th-worst comedian of all time.

Sometimes, Carlos Mencia is a a guest on XM Satellite Radio on the Opie and Anthony show and CBS Radio. In 2006, the comedian was part of the first Opie and Anthony 's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour.

In 2007, Mecia took part at a national comedy tour "Carlos Mencia Live Presented by Bud Light " and the comedian starred in a Super Bowl XLI commercial for the same Bud Light, being according to TiVo the #1 most replayed commercial. Also in 2007, in December, Carlos Mencia went to the Persian Gulf to entertain the troops serving over seas, followed by an concert that he hosted - Operation MySpace - in Middle East alongside The Pussycat Dolls and Jessica Simpson and a trip to Kuwait.

In 2008 was filmed Carlos Mencia's video comedy special Carlos Mencia: Performance Enhanced, released on DVD the same year.

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