The Mouth Of Mencia. Latino Comic Pokes Fun With a Word That Has Lost Some of Its Sting

On his new television show, “Mind of Mencia,” funnyman Carlos Mencia is just loving the B-word. He calls himself Comedy Central’s “resident beaner.” He does bits along the line of “You know you’re a beaner when . . .” He has a routine called “Out the Beaner.”

He did his act a few weeks ago for the Congressional Hispanic Caucus in Washington. Some people laughed, some people winced. At a recent taping of his cable show at a Hollywood studio, the pie-faced cutup from the barrio of East L.A. stood before a whooping audience and talked about Hurricane Katrina. “You want to know how bad it got? Mexico sent us help! They said it was 39 trucks filled with 180 soldiers.” He rolls his eyes: “I’m telling you white people . . . there’s at least a thousand beaners there right now.”

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