Carlos Mencia. The TRUTH About Comedy with Carlos Mencia . Episode 531 with The Real Brad Lea (TRBL)

Ned Arnel "Carlos" Mencía (born October 22, 1967) is a Honduran-American comedian, writer, and actor. His style of comedy is often political and involves issues of race relations, Latin American culture, criminal justice, and social class. He is best known as the host of the Comedy Central show Mind of Mencia. Mencia performed at venerated LA stand-up venues such as The Comedy Store and The L.A. Cabaret. His success in these venues led to appearances on The Arsenio Hall Show and Buscando Estrellas, where he attained the title "International Comedy Grand Champion." Then, in 1994, Mencia was chosen to host HBO's Latin comedy showcase Loco Slam. He has performed with people like Chappelle, and George Lopez and has been mentioned as top three funniest comedians. He firmly believes that if you are not laughing, you are not living!   In this episode, Brad and Carlos break down the TRUTH about comedy and Carlos’ journey in his career and what he is now overcoming.   00:00 Intro 01:40 The internet trying to cancel Carlos 03:49 Bomb: Hard work is not all you need to climb out of the “rat race” 06:30 The sense of humility taught  08:32 The road to comedy 11:50 The Comedy Store 14:40 What got him big 18:00 The internet attacks 23:00 The unfolding 30:00 Gag Gifts 34:18 Where the focus is 40:06 Comedy etiquette 47:00 Accused of stealing jokes 51:52 Bomb: The positive 57:00 Eddie Murphy 01:04:00 The reverse engineer 01:10:50 Bomb: The other side of pain 01:11:20 Bomb: “No matter how bad it is just keep on living.” - Carlos Mencia 01:12:55 Joe Rogan 01:19:45 Brad’s highschool reunion  01:26:00 Unification of Latinos 01:37:55 French 01:42:37 Follow Carlos @carlosmencia everywhere and look into his show at The South Point 01:46:55 Listen up #Bombsquad!