Stand up comedy - Page 4

This hack stole all of his material. Oh, and his delivery sucks.

Taste in comedy is subjective but um WTF? Mencia sucks, as does Lewis black. Lopez is slighty tolerable.

bill hicks. end thread.

um.... Carlos Mencia did steal material. A lot of it. So did Denis Leary. The son of a bitch literally took Bill Hicks' entire persona, except for the underlying wit and intellectualism. Original SNL people...frankly the only stand up material I've seen is of Steve Martin, which is very funny but not my cup of tea. The more obscure original cast members (Garrett Morris, George Coe) are way before my time. And afaik the others (Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Dan Akroyd, John Belushi) were more improv / sketch comics without a history in stand up. I find George Lopez hilarious, but I grew up in a Mexican household in the southwestern U.S. and his material may be unrelatable to others. Dave* Attell is a very funny guy (his show Insomniac was great) but funny enough I don't think he's great as a stand up comedian. If you like Woody Allen, try looking up material from a Canadian stand up named Jeremy Hotz. He gets much funner after a couple minutes in

+1 on Delirious, but Raw was a colossal disappointment, IMO. Pound for pound, I actually think Chris Rock's first two standup shows -- Bring the Pain and Bigger and Blacker -- were far better than Delirious and Raw, it's just that it's sacrilege to say that since it's Eddie freakin Murphy we're talking about. I compare it to when people talk about the greatest dunkers ever. Almost everyone says Jordan, but I mean, come on -- did you see Vince Carter in the 2000 dunk contest? We all know it's Vince. We just can't say it because it's an affront to something/someone so classic. George Carlin's "Euphemisms" bit is probably my favorite of all-time and should be required listening for all writers, as far as I'm concerned. At the very least, the folks who work for airlines should listen to it, if only to change the ridiculous terms "preboard" and "nonstop flight." "No, I insist that my flight stop!" There are too many hilarious Mitch Hedberg quotes to list, but I always liked this one: "The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall. I played a wall once -- they're fucking relentless." By the way, all you Demetri Martin fans know his name is Demetri Martin, right?

RAAAAAAAANDYftw! Only comic with a DJ!

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That statement is really funny. How do you say that taste is subjective and then bash the guys I like?

Because Mencia is a hack

Dylan Moran is great.


Carlos Mencia is a hack. And just not funny. At all.

Delarious and Raw are my two favorites. I think Chris Rocks first two are right behind them and one of Jamie Fox's was surprisingly funny. Bernie Mac was hilarious, Martin in th early 90's had some classic moments.

This is hall of fame comedy from 1974 and still funny as it gets

South Park summed up Carlos Mencia pretty well: "I steal other people's jokes and just repackage them with a Mexican accent." Anyone here a fan of Hugh Fink's standup? He's got an odd shtick where he repeats lines or sounds or even one-liners from earlier in his routine ad nauseam, and it's somehow hilarious. Like he does this impression of a first-base coach and how his job only requires him to chew bubble gum, clap his hands and say, "Come on, Bobby ..... come on, Bobby ..... come ooooooon, Bob-O." And this goes on for at least 30 seconds too long.

Mencia is fucking horrid. All the racial jokes of Dave Chappelle with none of the talent. Of those who haven't been mentioned, I like Bill Burr a lot.

Wish that were true. Seems like everytime he comes to town I can't get tickets because it's sold out.

As far as the sealing other peoples stuff does anyone have proof or are we just going to bad mouth him?