Amazing--Mencia managed to steal the joke without taking any of the humor with it!

Yeah - but isn’t that usually the way it goes? Stolen bits hardly ever work as good for the thief as for the original comedian. Usually because the stolen bit doesn’t fit in with the comedian’s own jokes. Unique material springs from the comic persona or soul of the performer, so a thief doing someone else’s joke lacks the persona that made the joke unique in the first place.

On the other hand - joke stealing has worked for Mencia, right? If he can do it and be successful with it - hey, let’s open up the market! :P

I’m calling him a joke thief by now. Too many incidents like these.

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I’ll whip your ass.” ;)

I don’t think the search for joke-jacking will get out of hand; yes, it’s true that many comic minds think alike. But it’s also true that real comedians will always be writing and evolving, which means many jokes live for a while then go by the wayside. Especially the topical stuff, which is where I see a lot of overlap in material. If I wrote a killer joke that I then found out was identified with another comic, I would drop it. But the chances of writing something from my own real life being the same as another comics stuff are rare, unless it’s a general, expected premise.

So what I’m saying is that Ned Holness is a loud, unfunny fraud.

The only thing Carlos could do now is come out on stage and do ‘Wild and Crazy Guy’ word for word and then walk off stage without another word.

I don’t like Mencia, but I’m really starting to dislike this whole thing.

I’ll tell you something.  Whats going to happen if we find out Mencia has created a time machine and everything that has come out of those other comics mouths was stolen from him.  God damn it that’s gonna suck.

I remember Bill Maher doing a drugs-haven’t-hurt-my-record-collection joke on a standup special that was incerdibly similar to a if-you-don’t-like-drugs-then-throw-out-your-record-collection joke by Bill Hicks. That said, Bill Maher’s a solid performer with a well of credibility and Ned Mencia is not. And he’s never been funny. I think that’s the difference.

I remember when Mind of Mencia came out, it felt like a desperate attempt by c. central to fill the ‘racially edgy’ gaping black hole (no pun intended) by Dave Chapelle. I tried to watch, but it just smelled like desperate comedy.
Having seen Joe Rogan’s video plus direct correlations like this, I’m glad people are finally coming out and calling him out on this [not to mention outright stating the fact that Mencia sucks!]

As a comedian who works hard to always write original ideas and has yet to get anywhere it pisses me off when guys who have made it in some way are proven to be thieves.
I can’t believe that Comedy Central still has the show on!

Carlos Mancia is one of the most original, talented comedians that ever lived. His material is original, thought provoking, and well delivered. He is a brilliant performer, unfettered by the constraints of society, who tells it like it is.

Cosby owns a time machine and it was in fact Cosby who stole the joke from Mancia.

(all of the above is false.)

Ben,

Thank you.  I’m really starting to believe in the time machine theory as well.

It’s the delivery that’s damning in my eyes.  Making fun of the “Hi Mom” athletic greeting has been done time and time again--that’s the beauty of comedy is that the same subject matter gets analyzed from a billion different viewpoints.  Hell, my sketch group has developed sketches that we were about to roll out when we found out that other groups had recently done it.  But when its the same subject matter delivered in the same sort of way, then things get hairy.