Product Description

Twelve episodes from the first season include comedy sketches and stand-up acts.
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 21-MAR-2006
Media Type: DVD

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25269 in DVD
• Brand: MENCIA,CARLOS
• Released on: 2006-03-21
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Amazon.com
It's not easy to balance the fine line between being funny and offensive, but Carlos Mencia manages to make it work on Mind of Mencia--Uncensored Season 1. Born in Honduras to a Honduran father and a Mexican mother, Mencia takes glee in mocking uncomfortable stereotypes. No one is immune from his sharp tongue, least of all "beaners." Part of his show is dedicated to "outing" Hispanic celebrities who try to pass as anything but. Nicole Richie, Reggie Jackson, and Bob Vilas all are part Hispanic, he points out. Ironically enough, Mencia has taken some slams for being a white man trying to pass as a minority. In reality, Mencia has some German roots on his father's side, but he was raised in a Hispanic household and speaks fluent Spanish.

Mencia makes jokes about Asians, whites, Arabs, and African Americans, but he rarely says anything that makes the viewer cringe. Somehow, the manic comic makes the person he's making fun of feel he's in on the joke. In one segment, Mencia brings a metrosexual-type male audience member on stage, orders him not to speak, and tells the man to dance. Mencia then asks the audience to decide whether the man is gay or foreign. He's neither, but with the help of the good-natured participant, Mencia makes a telling point that looks often are deceiving and that we as a society are all too happy to jump to the wrong conclusions. --Jae-Ha Kim

From the back cover
Watch twelve merciless episodes from the first season of Comedy Central's new hit show where Carlos takes on everything from white people to black people to brown people to slightly tan people. Be warned, in Mencia's mind, no one's safe from his raging rants and whip-smart instincts.

Customer Reviews

Chalk one up for the Beaners
So he's Honduran, so what? Mencia grew up in East LA; how much more "Beaner" do you want?

I'm Puerto Rican and I think Mencia is hysterical, especially the way he rants against stupidity without regard to race, creed, color or national origin. He and Chapelle are cut from the same cloth, but their styles are distinct.

Yes, he is not afraid to offend, very refreshing in an era of bocorrectness, and joins the ranks of Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor, who raised many an eyebrow. I'm anxiously awaiting season two.

MENCIA IS MADD FUNNY.................DONT BE A HATER
FIRST OF ALL THIS DVD KICKS ASS, HE IS THE S*** AND HE IS THE FUNNIEST COMEDIAN. HE DOES MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE STEROTYPICALLY, BUT IF YOU DON'T LIKE TO GET MADE FUN OF BECAUSE OF YOUR RACE............THEN DON'T WATCH THE D**N SHOW!!!!!!!!

Mind of Mencia season one
LOVED IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HILARIOUS!
I can not wait for season 2