you were always thinking that, but you were just afraid to say it. See, it wasn't Carlos Mencia who said "I want Julio to hop the border and cut my grass" it was
You. You said that, which makes it edgy. And funny. Laughing yet? I can see this is all very tough for you to wrap your brain around. Let's move on.
2. He Often Makes Fun of Retarded People
Sure, any old comedian can take the tedious minutiae of everyday life and put a clever, unique and hilarious spin on it, but it takes a
real comedic hero to make fun of retarded people. Frankly, I think we're all pretty much in agreement over the fact that the mentally disabled have had it too good for too long, and it's about time Carlos Mencia finally put them in their place. "Dee dee dee" is the inventive phrase that you hear all the cool kids saying these days. Conceived by Carlos (?), the phrase represents mentally challenged and stupid people because...because stupid people say 'dee dee dee' a lot, I guess? Or because he once heard a retarded person or...something. I don't know. There's a song that goes along with it. It's complicated. Regardless of why he came up with it or what it means or why it took the nation by storm, the point is, he came up with it. (Probably.)
If Shakespeare was alive today, (and, according to some theories I've been kicking around,
he is), and, further, if he was an ethnic comedian instead of a (zombie) playwright, you can bet your ass that he'd be wishing that
he was the first one to think of saying "dee dee dee" when he was making fun of retarded people. Considered by most historians as the "Elizabethan Carlos Mencia," Ole' Bill Shakespeare was a pioneer in the field of cruelly mocking retarded people, and you can put that shit on a t-shirt. His "dee dee dee"'s were a little more involved and generally in iambic pentameter, but the sentiments were the same.
1. He's the Miles Davis of Comedy
Here is, perhaps, the most important aspect of Carlos Mencia and his comedy. It's the reason most people don't "get" Carlos. Get ready, white folks, because I'm about to rock your world. See, Dave Chappelle once did a skit to show the world what it would be like if there was a
black president.
And it was funny in a "makes you laugh often" sort of way, which is fine if that's what you're looking for in a comedy. But Carlos Mencia opted to take the road less traveled by doing exactly what Dave Chappelle did several years later, but with a twist: Mencia was going to show the world what it would be like to have a black president, but he was going to do so
without being funny or relevant.
See? He's a comedian who
didn't tell a single joke. Not once.
If you feel like there's a bunch of gross, warm goo inside your skull, it's because Carlos Mencia just blew your mind.
While Miles Davis was acclaimed for the notes he
didn't play, so too should Carlos be applauded for the jokes he
isn't telling.
Follow that logic and you'll have to agree, Carlos Mencia is the funniest man on the planet.
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