I was flipping through the channels the other night, watching TV, when I stopped on the show “Mind of Mencia”. The show stars Carlos Mencia and he does skits and stand up comedy and things like that. People seem to think he’s pretty funny, but I really don’t understand his appeal. First of all, all his material is made up of racist and sexist jokes. Carlos Mencia is a Mexican American, but since he makes fun of Mexicans in his comedy he seems to think that it is ok to make fun of every other group, including whites, blacks, gays, lesbians, Italians, Asians, and more. He even makes fun of people who are mentally retarded.
I don’t really think comedians who target different ethnic groups to be funny. I think it’s a cheap and easy way to get people to laugh. All Mencia does is make fun of people through stereotypes. Every joke he has ever used has been said before, because he just plays off of stereotypes that different racial and ethnic groups hold. I think making fun of people through stereotypes is first of all wrong because many times the stereotype is not true, and it’s not imaginative or original. Carlos Mencia is not the only comedian guilty of this, but I think he is the most well known. Watch his show for a half hour and you will see him target every minority and majority group you could think of, although watching his show for a full half hour could be considered torture.
Carlos Mencia’s jokes and the jokes of other comedians who do the same thing he does only sustains inequality by making people think that believing stereotypes and repeating them for a laugh are alright, but its not. Im sure that people are offended all the time at Mencia’s show, I know I have been. I know that I will never watch his show again because it only supports what he does, and I don’t agree with him or his ideas at all.
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Good for you to realize that he isn't very original. He feeds off the hate, and inequality in America in order to make people laugh. Although we don't know his whole life story, and maybe this is just a coping mecanism for him. Maybe he thinks he is doing the right thing by pretending these stereotypes aren't a big deal. Of course there are probably people in his crowd of fans that are racist, or bias. Maybe he doesn't realize how many people he is hurting though. Sense he mentions just about every race, ethnicity, ability, etc... there has to be millions of people out there that aren't laugh, and that makes a world of difference.
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