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- knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -21/+372Joe Rogan is awesome. he's going through a lot of ***** right now (banned from comedy store, dropped by his agent) and it's all to better the comic community. he's showing a ***** load of integrity right now and I definitely commend him for his efforts.
plus he can beat Carlos Mencia's ass. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -20/+366Carlos Mencia sucks...Comedy Central needs to drop that ***** show
- soyjoe, on 10/12/2007, -15/+200Recap: Joe Rogan vs. Carlos Mencia
(in 10 seconds)
Joe Rogan: You're a thief. Here's evidence
Carlos Mencia: You're just jealous. I'm going to ruin your career
Joe Rogan: *career getting stepped on* At least I have my integrity. And a lot of friends.
Carlos Mencia: *career gasping for breath* I have no friends. I have no integrity. Also, I'm not really Mexican, but shhhhh. - Ngai, on 10/12/2007, -13/+152I can see this as being good...
Good - Rogan will be ever more popular and supported for his integrity..
Good - Mencia will go down in history as a fake and his agent made a bad choice to keep him, seeing as his career will end soon. - deadaluspark, on 10/12/2007, -23/+136dude, screw that. joe rogan was HIGH the entire time he was on fear factor. i think its pretty ballsy to be baked on national television regularly.
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -4/+111I might not care about Joe Rogan, but I care about people who steal other people's work and claim it as their own. ***** Carlos (Ned) Mencia. He's a talentless prick who's gotten wealthy off of the hard work of others. He deserves whatever ill fate comes his way.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+114Joe Rogan is the *****.
1. He gets into a myspace flameout with some 21 year old college student and posts it all on his blog.
2. Starts calling UFC fights and actually knows his MMA *****.
3. Belittles a female heckler during stand-up (you can find it on YouTube).
4. Exposes Carlos Mencia as a biter.
5. Drops his agent to distance himself from Ned Mencia, the no-talent assclown.
Keep it up Joe. - McShaken, on 10/12/2007, -6/+104Cudos to Joe Rogan for bringing to light how Carlos (Ned) is stealing material from other comics. Now Ned is getting nasty, and Joe won't back down.
Balls of steel! Way to go Joe! - aegis9975, on 10/12/2007, -6/+103No worries for Joe.
Rogan is now with William Morris as his new agency.
http://forums.joerogan.net/showpost.php?p=1343262&postcount=27
http://www.wma.com/0/agency/overview/ - synystar, on 10/12/2007, -9/+105I know very little about Rogan...but Carlos: "Dee dee dee" is not funny. You're not funny. You suck.
- kablammo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+70I miss News Radio...
- Ngai, on 10/12/2007, -8/+70I figured we could end his(Mencia) career a bit faster by sending our opinions to Comedy Central...give them a piece of your mind.
Remember to set the topic to {Mind of Mencia}:
http://www.comedycentral.com/help/questionsCC.jhtml - xtremehoops23, on 10/12/2007, -19/+80Joe didn't get dropped, on his website it clearly states that he didn't want to be a part of the agency anymore...
what a horrible digg title!
either way, joes awesome for sticking the stupid 'ned mencia' - xerus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+60Joe Rogan beats up Mencia with a Wiimote, while filming it on his iMac with a webcam running Ubuntu.
- webdevil, on 10/12/2007, -4/+60Newsradio was awesome. ( Even though it's not on anymore it still has a big following )
He's a regular commentator on UFC which has a huge following now.
He's starting to do a lot more stand up.
I'd say his career is at a high point. - afruff23, on 10/12/2007, -3/+48I think we can add this to the long list of Digg fads:
"Joe Rogan is a hero; Mencia is a lying thief." - SecretSnack, on 10/12/2007, -5/+46http://digg.com/celebrity/Why_Joe_Rogan_Switched_To_Linux
If that article is ever posted it will get 1,000,000 diggs. - spraguep, on 10/12/2007, -5/+44Dane Cook sucks ass.
- redban2, on 10/12/2007, -16/+54http://www.haider.1g.fi/RBonOA.wma -Opie and Anthony talking about innocent
- FreshPineScent, on 10/12/2007, -7/+45I don't really care about Joe Rogan. As for Mencia, if he is stealing jokes, that sucks big balls. However, I find Carlos annoying for another reason.
Aside from his love for easy race jokes, Mencia makes huge profit on comedy that only points out the problems of the world--issues most of us already knew about. His comedy--his "social commentary" if you must--does nothing (zip, zero, zilch, nada) in even the slightest regard to actually correct those problems. He could use his show to hold those at fault accountable. It could be very similar to how the Daily Show both forces the media to look in on its own hypocrisies and points out how the media should behave.
Does that make sense at all? This quandary to social good vs. "social commentary" comedy is exactly what drove Dave Chapelle out of his show. Sadly, Chapelle and his writers produced some of the edgiest and fiercest comedy ever seen on basic cable, but at least Chapelle was big enough as a person to see he was often doing more harm than good. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+43DO NOT WATCH MIND OF MENCIA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's not that becuase Carlos Mencia is crude, offensive and annoying (he is) that I want his show ("Mind of Mencia" on Comedy Central) off of the air; it is instead because it is both not funny and completely false advertising.
I would have expected more from the network that brings us great shows such as Reno 911, The Daily Show, South Park and Chappelle's Show (R.I.P.), but I guess Viacom needed a new hit so badly that they decided to get a no-name like Menica to host a show eerily similar in format and structure to Dave Chappelle's masterpiece.
Carlos Mencia, as IMDB.com will tell you, is not, as he would lead you to believe, Mexican. Carlos Mencia is actually half-Honduran and half-German, therefore making him NOT a "beaner" and eliminating the five 5 minutes of his show's premiere. In fact, his real name is not even 'Carlos Mencia,' it's Ned Holness! It turns out (and I'm not making this up, although it sounds like something out of a Chappelle's Show sketch) that the owner of the Comedy Store (located in Los Angeles) decided that Ned's name needed to (and I quote) "sound more Mexican," so he came up with a new name for poor Ned, the fake-Mexican, half-German, horrible comedian.
It is one thing to be offensive, I have no problem with people being offensive. Daniel Tosh is one of my favorite comedians and I'm surprised how successfull he has been since his entire act alienates most of the audience at one point or another. Ned "Carlos Mencia" Holness is offensive for the sake of being offensive and never seems to back it up with any decent jokes or observations. His comparing the present racial tensions with Arabs in America to Blacks in America could have been insightful if he didn't constantly use the name "Achmed" and describe the situation with the analogy "it's like a game of tag!" No, racism is not a game of tag "Carlos" and no joke should last more than 1 minute, let alone 5!!! When Dave Chappelle commented on racism, he did it cleverly and inventively, when Ned "Carlos Mencia" Holness does it, he rocks around like a drunked frat boy and describes how much he dislikes "Achmed" with a disturbingly glazed look in his eye.
The jab at Chappelle's show in the opening scene would have been funny if it didn't come off as Viacom acting like a spoiled second grader who got angry because another kid wouldn't share his cool new PSP game. Everything about the premiere had an undercurrent of anger and malice that poisoned the show. "Carlos" isn't funny as much as is he belligerent. "Mind of Mencia" needs to be kicked of the air, because it exactly the sort of pedestrian entertainment that your group fights against. For being unneccesarily offensive without being funny, for pretending to be something that he is not, for even attempting to take the place of the genius, Dave Chappelle,
"Carlos Mencia" needs to be kicked off the air and return doing voiceovers for "The Proud Family" on the Disney Channel, where horrible entertainers belong. - JCSaint, on 10/12/2007, -6/+41I thought kudos was with a K... or is that just the candy bar?
- silorats, on 10/12/2007, -3/+32Rogan is huge outside of the cave you're living in...he's commentating for the UFC and has his own show for them as well. He's def alive and well with a big fan following...just not on national TV.
FWIW, I used to think he was a tool, but the dude is pretty damn funny if you give him a chance and his big personality doesn't rub you the wrong way. - Moebaca, on 10/12/2007, -27/+56Joe's the man
- v2ninja, on 10/12/2007, -12/+39I guess you never heard of the UFC???
- contradictator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23As much as I support Joe's side, I miss the days of Newsradio the most. Joe didn't make people jump off helicopters into vats of horse urine. Phil Hartman was still around. Dave Foley was still semi-famous. And Andy Dick wasn't such a randy dick.
- haydesigner, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26@excalpius: "If he had apologized for his unprofessionalism (and NO it isn't about who is right/wrong in such a working environment), they would have kept him"
Forgive me, but did you not watch the actual video and read the description of what happened? MENCIA, who was *not* supposed to be on stage at the time, was the one who called Rogan back on stage. Rogan just stepped to the challenge is all. If anyone was "unprofessional", it clearly was Mencia.
_Not_ Rogan.
@excalpius: "He quit them because he was too proud to apologize for his behavior. Period."
Period?
Methinks you have the makings of a great reporter... for the Washington Times. - mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26Go home Carlos... You dont belong here.
- drmobutu, on 10/12/2007, -6/+26I just watched the first five minutes of Mencia tonight...dude's a retarded stooge.
- blahtastic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18Wow...insecure about your masculinity or just an extremely limited vocabulary?
- uptown, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20Carlos is a thief and a hack...
Go Rogan! - kyeetza, on 10/12/2007, -18/+34I'm gonna tell you something about me, Joe Rogan, that you might not know...I smoke rocks!
- rswelling, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18How is it that Mencia can steal decent material...and still not be funny? He tries so hard to be Dave Chappell, even though he hasn't been caught stealing Dave's material, his show is just a complete dumbed down suck fest rip off (minus the funny) it is pretty much completely unwatchable (and i've tried, really). To think an agent would be dumb enough to side against, or even question Joe for fear of losing such a "valuable" commodity as Mencia in this is really a testament to the stupidity of Hollywood, but those are a dime a dozen no doubt. Joe Rogan, along with Doug Stanhope are the and others of their ilk are the real deal, smart, sharp as a razor outsider social commentary, it doesn't get any better than these guys. It seems so obvious...Mencia's main defense is that Joe is "jealous"?...umm yeah i REALLY doubt that pal.
- Archon810, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19The day Mencia gets dropped and disappears into the abyss will become a national holiday, or it should.
- Frophauser, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15He didn't kill it... It was already dead when he got there. He just failed to resuscitate it.
- V01D, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Joe Rogan get beat down? The guy was a tae kwon do (sorry about the spelling) black belt and world champion early into his 20's. He knows his stuff when it comes to fighting. Mencia got what he deserved, he's a fraud and I'm glad Rogan's going through all of this so that the general public knows.
- thajayman, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19 Rogan is a good man. He is doing the right thing. He feels good due to being a good dude.
Rogan will prevail!~ - SecretSnack, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20No, he doesn't seem insecure. Nor should he be. He's a triple threat. He's got intellect, wit, and physics behind him. Booyah.
- praisethelard, on 06/06/2008, -2/+16Mencia tries way too hard to be controversial and hard hitting and comes off looking like a douche. I've found him annoying from the get go.
- SpenceMasta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14i used to hate joe rogan, but now as of recent events im liking him more and more
- tdogg241, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20That soils the good name of retarded stooges everywhere.
- UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I get more respect for Rogan almost every time I hear him, even when he's an *****. He's gained about 20,000 fans on Digg in the past few days and Mencia has lost nearly that many.
- ferndave, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18@baxtermaddux
Ah yes, the "I know people" defense. Prove it with something better than hearsay. Rogan was the host of FF, nothing more and you can't prove it otherwise. - kidc, on 10/12/2007, -8/+20@drted
well apparently YOU are the guy nobody likes because you are "a complete arrogant dick".. way to judge somebody by what they "look" like instead of the rest of us who judge someone by the ***** that comes out of their mouth, like we did to you.
Enjoy the thumbs down my friend. - koonchu, on 10/12/2007, -12/+23Yeah, it just comes off as...cruel. I'm sure the only reason people let Sarah Silverman get away with it is because they can always throat-***** her in their dreams if she gets too out of line.
- bobdoler, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Petition off Joe Rogans board to get Mencia canceled off Comedy Central.
http://www.petitiononline.com/nocarlos/petition.html - brbubba, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17Totally agree with you. I saw Carlos perform live, and he thinks he is funny and for some reason people laugh, but I gotta tell ya, he is easily one of the worst comedians out there. And his whole "indoctrination" thing is really annoying, as if Carlos has any bearing on how I feel and think about the world. I was probably the only person that refused to clap for him after the performance.
- greatghandi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10@dkm201
I think he was referring to how both Silverman and Ned do tasteless retard jokes. - Jerky1312, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Joe Rogan does his dirty work in the public's eye (youtube, joerogan.net), while Carlos seems to be doing his dirty work behind closed doors (having Rogan banned from the Comedy Store and now having his agent drop him). Has Joe taken a bite too big for him to chew on? I know he's working hard to knock Mencia off his pedestal (which he stole jokes to get a top of), but Mencia seems to have more leverage with the paper pushers, while Joe seems to have the fan's support. Interested to see how this soap opera ends up.
- baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -10/+19like i said in my above post. joe rogan is an extremely rich producer who runs one of the most lucrative series in television. when you can bring in millions of viewers on a cheaply made reality show, the ball is in your court in hollywood. so..people care. maybe not people like me. but trust me. executives care
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