Carlos Mencia. The TRUTH About Comedy with Carlos Mencia . Episode 531 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL)
Ned Arnel "Carlos" Mencía (born October 22, 1967) 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. He is best known as the host of the Comedy Central show Mind of Mencia. Mencia performed at venerated LA stand-up venues such as The Comedy Store and The L.A. Cabaret. His success in these venues led to appearances on The Arsenio Hall Show and Buscando Estrellas, where he attained the title "International Comedy Grand Champion." Then, in 1994, Mencia was chosen to host HBO's Latin comedy showcase Loco Slam. He has performed with people like Chappelle, and George Lopez and has been mentioned as top three funniest comedians. He firmly believes that if you are not laughing, you are not living!
In this episode, Brad and Carlos break down the TRUTH about comedy and Carlos’ journey in his career and what he is now overcoming.
00:00 Intro
01:40 The internet trying to cancel Carlos
03:49 Bomb: Hard work is not all you need to climb out of the “rat race”
06:30 The sense of humility taught
08:32 The road to comedy
11:50 The Comedy Store
14:40 What got him big
18:00 The internet attacks
23:00 The unfolding
30:00 Gag Gifts
34:18 Where the focus is
40:06 Comedy etiquette
47:00 Accused of stealing jokes
51:52 Bomb: The positive
57:00 Eddie Murphy
01:04:00 The reverse engineer
01:10:50 Bomb: The other side of pain
01:11:20 Bomb: “No matter how bad it is just keep on living.” - Carlos Mencia
01:12:55 Joe Rogan
01:19:45 Brad’s highschool reunion
01:26:00 Unification of Latinos
01:37:55 French
01:42:37 Follow Carlos @carlosmencia everywhere and look into his show at The South Point
01:46:55 Listen up #Bombsquad!
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