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Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (2007)
Where's the funny?
This IS supposed to be funny, right? Bearing that in mind, where are the jokes? Where are the punchlines? This show has the Carlos Mencia disease: no comedic talent. Don't try to coax me with "It is what it is" and any other self-serving explanation because you want to find brilliance in something you like (which blinds the ability to objectively comment on how good something really is). I don't know the guys who make this show, so I can't say my objection to it is personal. It really is bad. There are many people who have been able to make foolishness, absentmindedness and idiocy very funny (Chaplin, Keaton and Lloyd are the best place to start). John C. Reilly couldn't find something else of higher quality with which to occupy his time? While it's novel to use the "I just don't get it" argument, but I know what there is to get. This show doesn't have it. This show is not funny.
Mind of Mencia (2005)
Not funny. Just not funny.
Carlos Mencia is not funny. From his stand up specials to this train wreck of a TV series, Carlos Mencia is not funny. I have been trying to convince people for two years that he steals other comedians' jokes, and as far as his comedy material goes, he is a regular "Johnny-come-lately" with far less than sub-par results. Psycho astronaut jokes? Britney Spears breakdown jokes? I hope this is only a scheduling error, but come on Carlos and Comedy Central, those topics, and many others, have run the gamut of late night TV show hosts' opening monologues, Saturday Night Live, Mad TV and many, many others. Lampooning ethnic and racial stereotypes? Comedy stands no chance of evolving with Carlos Mencia around. Perhaps people, especially viewers and Comedy Central executives will get the point since this week's issue of "New York" magazine accurately labeled him: "Carlos Mencia, unrepentant joke-filcher."