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Carlos Mencia
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ned Arnel Mencía, Ned Mencía, Carlos Mencía, Ned Holness, Ned Arnel Mencia
American stand-up comedian (born 1967)
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Carlos Mencia is a male stand-up comedian, actor, television producer, and screenwriter. Born Ned Arnel Mencía in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, in 1967, he holds citizenship in Honduras and the United States. He speaks and writes in English and Spanish, and his native language is English. Mencia was educated at California State University, Los Angeles, and resides in Los Angeles.
He is influenced by Paul Mooney and performs using his voice. Mencia has used the pseudonyms Ned Arnel Mencía, Ned Mencía, and Carlos Mencía. His work is associated with tags including stand-up comedy, funny, and gayfish. He is categorized as a person in music databases and has worked in the acting department.
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It sits within the topics 1967 births, 21st-century American comedians and American male actors of Mexican descent.
Its subject is documented across 60 Wikipedia language editions.
Film & TV
San Pedro Sula, Honduras
Ned Arnel Mencia (born October 22, 1967), known professionally as Carlos Mencia is a Honduran-born American comedian, writer, and actor. His style of comedy is often political and involves issues of race, culture, criminal justice, and social class. He is best known as the host of the Comedy Central show Mind of Mencia which produced four seasons before being cancelled in 2008. Description…
Known for
- Carlos Mencia: Here I Am — Himself2023
- Dark Side of Comedy — Self2022
- The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder — Felix (voice)2022
- Gotham Comedy Live — Self - Host2012
- Carlos Mencia: New Territory — Himself2011
- Our Family Wedding — Miguel Ramirez2010
- I Am Comic — Self2010
- Celebrity Ghost Stories — Self2009
- Carlos Mencia: Performance Enhanced — Himself2008
- The Heartbreak Kid — Tito2007
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1967
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 22,505
- Total plays
- 130,179
Tags
Ned Arnel Holness was born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, the seventeenth of eighteen children. At the time of his birth, his mother, Magdelena Mencía from Mexico, was engaged in a domestic dispute with his father, Honduran Roberto Holness, and declined to give her son his biological father's last name.[1] The name appearing on his birth certificate is "Ned Arnel Mencía", although Mencia has said that out of respect for his biological father he went by the Holness name anyway, and was known as "Ne
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- San Pedro Sula
- Occupation
- voice actor
- Educated at
- California State University, Los Angeles
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- carlosmencia.com
- Image
- Carlos Mencia performing in Anchorage, Alaska 2010.jpg
- Residence
- Los Angeles
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- Commons category
- Carlos Mencia
- date of birth
- 1967-10-22
- influenced by
- Paul Mooney
- name in native language
- Ned Arnel Mencía
- birth name
- Ned Arnel Mencía
- pseudonym
- Carlos Mencía
- social media followers
- 24400
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Ned Arnel Holness (born October 22, 1967) known professionally as Carlos Mencía, 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. From 2005 to 2008, he hosted the Comedy Central show Mind of Mencia. Around the time of the show's cancellation, several comedians accused Mencía of plagiarism and stealing jokes.
Early life
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