Carlos Mencia: No Strings Attached

“Carlos Mencia utters a lot of the politically incorrect truths that others only think about, which is why he has grown to become something of a stand-up comedy flavor of the moment.

The critics applaud his Comedy Central series “Mind of Mencia” for its brashness and honesty as he skewers ethnic stereotypes, racism, immigration, war, family and more. That show premieres its second season March 22. But first, there’s this taped stand-up hour featuring Mencia performing in front of a live audience at San Francisco’s Warfield Theater (on Jan. 20). It finds the Type A comic working himself into his usual blunt lather with brutal rants about his favorite subjects: diversity, terrorism, religion and race, race, race. It’s funny stuff, but Mencia proves such a shrill broken record here that you find yourself tuning him out.”

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