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When I'm onstage, I'm on, but a different part of me is on: the part of me that absorbs life, sees everything occurring, and touches on everything around me.
Carlos Mencia
Life
Me
Everything
Sees
Onstage
Part
Absorb
Around
Different
What I do is that I really, really try hard to make sure the things that I do comes from a pure place in my heart and my intent is a pure one.
Carlos Mencia
Heart
Try
Pure
Make
Sure
Intent
Place
Really
Hard
Things
You can take my dirtiest, craziest joke, and I can break down in my head why there's a good, honest, honorable reason for telling it.
Carlos Mencia
Good
You
Joke
Down
Honorable
Telling
Dirtiest
Take
Head
Break
Craziest
Reason
Why
Honest
If you've never seen me perform live, I'm a must-see. I'm very funny. I have a different perspective sometimes on a lot of what I do and the world itself, especially America.
Carlos Mencia
Funny
Me
You
World
Sometimes
Perspective
Seen
Live
Never
Perform
Lot
Itself
Very
America
Different
Different Perspective
On stage, I'm really, really tall. I'm five-foot-9, but on stage, I'm, like, six-foot-5.
Carlos Mencia
Stage
Like
Tall
Really
I grew up poor. The fact that I had to struggle to succeed, that wasn't a big deal to me. I'd struggled my whole life.
Carlos Mencia
Life
Me
Struggle
Big
Struggled
Fact
Had
Deal
Big Deal
Up
Grew
Succeed
Poor
Whole
I could always talk about being a Latino and having a Mexican mom and a Honduran dad and being from Honduras. That was always an easy go-to place. But on the other hand, it was a crutch.
Carlos Mencia
Mom
Other
Latino
Easy
About
Having
Could
Crutch
Talk
Always
Hand
Mexican
Being
Place
Dad
Honduras
I know that if any other comedian came up to me questioning something I did or said, it would be literally settled in a heartbeat. I love comedy. I give to comedy. I don't take from comedy.
Carlos Mencia
Love
Me
Comedy
Other
Settled
Would
Would-Be
Give
Something
Take
Comedian
Know
Said
Came
Questioning
Up
Heartbeat
Did
Any
Literally
Just because my name is Carlos Mencia, don't think my show is going to be about the difference between Mexicans and white people.
Carlos Mencia
People
White
Think
About
Between
Name
Because
Mexicans
Going
Just
Difference
Just Because
Show
I was never funny. I'd be funny once a year at Christmas. I'd do impressions of how people talked and danced, but that stopped when I was about 11.
Carlos Mencia
Funny
Christmas
People
Year
Danced
Once
Once A Year
About
Never
Talked
How
Impressions
Stopped
The easiest thing to do is put someone in a file of somebody you already know. 'Hey, you remind me of Sam Kinison' or 'You remind me of Richard Pryor.' That's fine, because I know that's the process. Eventually, my own file will be created.
Carlos Mencia
Me
You
Will
Somebody
Own
Hey
Easiest
Easiest Thing
Fine
Someone
My Own
Put
Remind
Know
Because
Sam
Pryor
Process
Richard
Richard Pryor
Created
File
Eventually
Thing
I know I'm funny.
Carlos Mencia
Funny
Know
I've dated many women at the same time. But I told them. I didn't keep any secrets from them.
Carlos Mencia
Time
Women
Secrets
Dated
Same
Any
Same Time
Them
Many
Keep
For me, it's always better to tell people the truth, because people can accept the truth.
Carlos Mencia
Truth
Me
People
Better
Tell
Accept
Because
Always
I've gotten in trouble with every race you can imagine. They say, 'I can't believe you talked about this - you're racist.' And I say, 'How can I be racist? Isn't racism exclusionary? If all of you are offended, that means I'm including every race in my jokes.'
Carlos Mencia
You
Jokes
Racism
Offended
Trouble
Believe
Every
Say
About
Talked
How
Gotten
Race
Means
Including
They Say
Imagine
It's a pleasure to be doing a show for Comedy Central. Traditional networks would cast me as the head of a household with 16 children, which I find extremely offensive because there are 18 kids in my family.
Carlos Mencia
Family
Me
Comedy
Extremely
Pleasure
Kids
Would
Find
Cast
Networks
Head
Comedy Central
Household
Because
Doing
Traditional
Offensive
Children
Which
Central
Show
If you ain't laughing, you ain't living, baby.
Carlos Mencia
You
Living
Baby
Laughing
I choose to live in a positive world and a positive presence.
Carlos Mencia
Positive
World
Live
Choose
Presence
I never want to forget that my job is to make people laugh.
Carlos Mencia
People
Job
Laugh
Never
Make
Forget
Want
My ancestry is really weird, because my great grandfather was from the Cayman Islands, and then his father was from England. But I lose track at that point.
Carlos Mencia
Great
Father
Lose
Ancestry
Point
Weird
Track
Great-Grandfather
Because
Islands
His
Grandfather
Then
Really
England
My comedy is about, lift yourself. See reality. Change the reality if you don't like it. But if you can't, then deal with things as they are because crying about it isn't going to change anything.
Carlos Mencia
You
Change
Reality
Yourself
Comedy
See
About
Lift
Like
Crying
Because
Deal
Going
Anything
Then
Things
If you don't like your job, then change it by getting some better skills. Until then, shut up and get my burger with a smile, like in the commercials.
Carlos Mencia
Smile
You
Change
Better
Job
Burger
Some
Like
Until
Up
Commercials
Get
Getting
Then
Skills
Your
Shut
Shut Up
I always knew I was going to lose weight.
Carlos Mencia
Lose
Weight
Knew
Always
Going
If I were to say that I grew up in East Los Angeles in the projects, poor, I assumed that everybody understood that it came with its own reasons for being the way I am. I didn't get that people needed to understand where my comedy came from; I thought that they knew that.
Carlos Mencia
People
Comedy
Thought
Own
Assumed
Everybody
Way
Projects
Say
East
Angeles
Knew
Understand
Am
Understood
Los
Came
Los Angeles
Were
Up
Get
Being
Where
Grew
Poor
Reasons
Needed
'America is such a great country, we have fat poor people.' It's one of those jokes that doesn't hit people right away, because it's so prevalent that we don't get it.
Carlos Mencia
Great
Jokes
People
Country
Great Country
Those
Because
Hit
America
Get
Poor
Poor People
Away
Right
Right Away
Fat
Guys like Rogan literally want to ruin my career. That's unbelievably cruel and hurtful, and I never want to be that guy.
Carlos Mencia
Ruin
Hurtful
Unbelievably
Guy
Guys
Never
Cruel
Like
Want
Literally
Career
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