Carlos Mencia a fraud?

ORIGINAL: DoctorX

I wouldn't call him a "protege," but they did work together quite a bit while growing up. Eventually Hicks moved to LA, and then back to Texas, where he took up with Ron Shock and Sam Kinson. I dunno if he associated with Stanhope anymore after that, and I'm not really familiar with Stanhope's matieral.

OO: Sorry, but I looked it up, and Rogan's history in comedy predates his work on Fear Factor by several years. I also like quite a bit of what he's done as a regular commedian, but his work on TV bores me to tears. The Bob Saggat comparisson is a fitting one. He's not some famous TV hack who decided he could parlay his career into comedy. He's a solid commedian who became famous doing banal humor on primetime.

Bio info on Rogan:

http://realitytv.about.com/od/realitytvjudges/a/JoeRogan.htm

http://music.yahoo.com/ar-305360-bio--Joe-Rogan

AMEN!

and amen about the Stanhope comments. He's hysterical and very smart. Unfortunately, Stanhope and Rogan are 2 alpha males and right there doesn't make for a great comedy tandem. You need a guy who's alpha like Corrola and Kimmel who's basically the straight man who will sort of step back and let the other guy go off.