So he was basically the guy that white racist guys could point to when they wanted to demonstrate that they weren’t racist? Maybe I’m being unfair, but that sounds weak. I’ve yet to find any comedian make a funny racial joke.
I felt that the pun crew were floundering.
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The bingo card Jerwin is referring to is remarkably accurate, though. All it needs is squares for ‘cute women playing the ukulele’, ‘look at this banana’ and ‘creepy dolls’.
It was even more accurate when it was originally posted, which I recall happening. But thank you for the lesson.
Mencia was also a well known (and admitted) plagiarist.
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“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.” --Mel Brooks
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“Iceberg, Steinberg, what’s the difference?”
Yo CAH, I’m really happy for you, Imma let you finish but Illuminati is one of the best card games of all time!..one of the best card games of all time!
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I don’t think so. He wasn’t to everyone’s taste, but he wasn’t racist against Latinos. If anything, it would have been white racists who got him pulled because while there were jokes about “isn’t it funny how we do this”, most of his humor was directed against issues of prejudice by whites in positions of power.
And THAT is a deal-breaker. Was that what got his show pulled, though?
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Cards Against Humanity should be a Character Card in Superfight.
I don’t think that’s it, since if it were, I should find Louis CK’s tribulations hilarious. Or is it my haemorrhoids that you’re poking…fun…at?
That’ pretty normal for stand up - although individual comedians differ in their attitude towards it.
http://www.stewartlee.co.uk/plagiarists.php
Note that Lee’s evinced attitude is itself a comedic prop - watch his ‘A pear cider made with 100% pears’ performance (particularly the UB40 section) for evidence of that. Some of the entries on his plagiarism page appear to accuse him of stealing from other comedians, and further, I used his ‘UKIP vote is like shitting the bed’ analogy several months before the episode where he made the comparison aired. I mean, he lives near me. I said it to people who live there. I don’t see why the phrase might not have been repeated, expanded upon, re-told. But then again, maybe it’s an appealing idea that several people developed independently. Like primitive agriculture.
Yes and no- I worked in comedy clubs for over a decade, and have known hundreds of comics.
There are two things that everyone does, and everybody understands- The first is coming up with stuff that everybody comes up with because certain jokes come easy. They all fly a couple times a year, and there are only so many things you can say about airline food. The second thing is when you write a joke you thought was original, but it turns out to be based on something you heard from another comic- It happens to everyone, so most of the time, it’s generally forgiven, but it’s standard practice to change it up enough that nobody would really recognize it as the same joke. If someone is actually mad about it, usually because it’s part of their signature or catchphrase (anyone can write “you might be a redneck if” lines, but they’re essentially Jeff Foxworthy’s trademark), you apologize and drop it from your act.
What Mencia was doing was blatantly copying working comics’ entire acts almost word for word, and then saying “so what- everybody does it”. Because he was a big name on TV, it meant that people would go see a smaller working comic in a club and leave going “man- That guy sucked. All he did was rip off Carlos Mencia’s show from last week”. It literally ruined several promising careers.
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Ah, the shitty meme dismissal.
Mencia was hated because his unfunny jokes were about “beaners” but he wasn’t Mexican. If you don’t think Latinos can be filled with hate towards other Latinos, you don’t know a lot about Latin American culture.
He was a sad and unfunny sack of shit, and “white people hate him” missed the point, all people hated him.
I read the whole article, and no they did nothing in the way of suggesting better games or improvements in game mechanics. Paul said nothing (and only played it once), Quinn says the game is “shit” (repeatedly) but says that it should be judged against Skull or Wits & Wagers, but then fails to actually DO SO. Leaving the actual review in the hands of the advanced reader? Matt actually did a GREAT job of explaining WHY the game is fun for some even while opining that it SHOULDN’T be (a valid critique).
As I said an exercise in PC dogpiling, with only Matt actually putting anything into his “review”
I did spend quite a bit of time later looking at other reviews and found almost everything else that I read or videos that I watched quite well done. which makes me wonder why it is that this piece was poorly executed, but managed to get great promotion through boingboing.
