Why comedians hate carlos mencia

Rogan then posted the video online, spliced with a number of comics doing their versions of a joke compared to a later version by Mencia. One of the comedians in the video was George Lopez, who has also accused Mencia of stealing jokes.

Rogan told Saget that despite his belief that he was doing the right thing by confronting Mencia in such a pubic way at the time, the outcome — he was banned for years from The Comedy Store — was not what he expected. I thought that was a real problem. Although compilations seem to confirm that Cook has used at least three of his bits, Louis C. Just for good measure and consistency, Joe Rogan has also accused Cook of lifting jokes. Long before he was an Oscar winner, Robin Williams was known to comics as a major material thief.

He was even alleged to have used other comedians' material on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. One well-traveled anecdote claims that when fellow comics spotted Williams in the audience of a comedy club, they would immediately stop their act to prevent him from writing down their best jokes.

According to Richard Zoglin's book Comedy at the Edge , David Brenner once asked Williams' agent to "Tell Robin if he ever takes one more line from me, I'll rip his leg off and shove it up his [bleep]! The former host of Last Comic Standing is an admitted comedy plagiarist. He accused him of stealing jokes from him and other comedians without crediting them.

Besides, the comment got him to the list of the most hated comedians, and big sponsors like HBO could no longer work with him, which was a big blow to his career. Although the accusations were a big blow to his brand, Carlos Mencia made a comeback, but it could not have bounced back as he hoped for. Mencia is trying to revive his brand through comedy tours, podcasting, youtube, writing gigs, and influencing. Among the contenders for the number one spot are definitely the time Joe Rogan fired Brian Redban as producer, and the Carlos Mencia incident.

More importantly, it would change the comedy scene forever by ostracising plagiarism and joke thievery. It may seem strange today, but back in the early s Carlos Mencia was a much bigger comedian than Joe Rogan. In the following years this decision seemed to pay off. And the accusations start piling up…. In the interview, Lopez talks about how Mencia put 13 minutes! Finally, on stage at the Comedy Club in L. Mencia pleads ignorance, but gets immediately shut down by Ari: The joke Mencia stole was from when Ari was opening for him.

But in the end, the comedian that stuck his neck out the most and risked his whole career, was Joe Rogan. Remember, that this was when Mencia was the well-known comic and Joe still fairly unknown:.

In , Joe went all out and confronted Mencia in front of a live crowd at the Comedy Store.