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Levante
21 Feb 2003, 11:31 AM
All right........so who is your favorite comedian? I'm not familiar with most Mexican comedians so I only posted the Mexican - Americans. Feel free to let us know about your favorite Mexican comedian.
My favorites are George Lopez and Carlos Mencia. There will be a Latin Kings of Comedy coming out on film this year, but Mencia will not be participating since Paul Rodriguez and him have some beef going on.
EvilRick
21 Feb 2003, 07:34 PM
Nobody can beat "Los Poliboses"
Polo Polo and Luis de Alba are good to.
norfcath
21 Feb 2003, 07:51 PM
Cantinflas. Of course you youngsters have never seen a really great comedian, Mexican or American, who didn't need to resort to coarse, vulgar language to be funny.
Various Styles
21 Feb 2003, 08:25 PM
Maybe its because i grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood but my favroite comedians are Bernie Mac, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Eddie Griffin.
Levante
21 Feb 2003, 08:37 PM
Originally posted by norfcath
Cantinflas. Of course you youngsters have never seen a really great comedian, Mexican or American, who didn't need to resort to coarse, vulgar language to be funny.
Hell no Brotha! He is one of my favorites. An interesting note to Cantinflas is that he was also very popular around the world. Did you know that in Spain, Cantinflas film, "El Padrecito" had the record for the most ticket booth sales until Titanic came along.
Levante
21 Feb 2003, 08:38 PM
Originally posted by Various Styles
Maybe its because i grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood but my favroite comedians are Bernie Mac, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Eddie Griffin.
Chris Rock is hellafunny. What about Chris Tucker VS?
Various Styles
21 Feb 2003, 09:05 PM
Originally posted by Levante
Chris Rock is hellafunny. What about Chris Tucker VS?
Tucker is also funny but i have only seen him in Movies, Friday, and with Jackie Chan. The rest of the comedians i have seen do stand up. Speaking of which there was an HBO special with this Mexican American, not sure what his name was. He was talking about how You allways see black people working at Taco bell and Mexicans working at Kentuky Fried Chicken, funny stuff...
EvilRick
21 Feb 2003, 10:23 PM
CANTINFLAS is in a completely different level, which none of the bozos mentioned in this thread will ever hope to reach.
sidspaceman
21 Feb 2003, 10:41 PM
Have to agree about Cantinflas. I was surprised by my 5 year old niece about a year ago when I was back in Texas for a visit. I asked what movie she wanted to watch and she pulled out one my parents Cantinflas tapes. My parents bought his whole collection I think they have like 30 movies or so. It turns out that she would watch those movies with my grandmother when my grandmother was visiting from Colombia.
LMvCP
21 Feb 2003, 10:42 PM
I would have to say my favorite is Roberto Gomez Bolaņos "Chespirito" [Chavo del 8 and Chapulin Colorado] . Being funny to the whole age spectrum (young and old) and without being vulgar is not an easy thing to do. And he did it for decades and decades.
Polo Polo... man i have some great memories of him. When we took family trips, my dad would buy these polo polo tape and we would drive all over Mexico (Nuevo Leon, Queretaro, Mexico, SLP, etc) and listen to Polo Polo.
Cantinflas....classics. Loved watching his movies as a kid.
Capulina....also classic. Loved his movies.
Jorge Ortiz de Pineda [Dr. Candido Perez, Hasta que el amor no separe, etc]. This comedian has been at it for over 35 years. What I like about him is that he is not vulgar in a direct manner, but uses words and figures of speech with double meaning (doble sentido). He always tends to overreact which is a trip.
Ramon Valdez..... Don Ramon from el Chavo del 8. My favorite character in that show. Chespirito once said that the only guy that truely made him luagh time and time again was Ramon....
Luis de Alba "El Pirruris".....so dumb he made you luagh
Other honrobale mentions:
Rodney Dangerfield. My favorite American Comedian.
Sam Kinison. That guy made you luagh at crap you were not suppose to luagh at
Andre Dice Clay. The American version of Polo Polo..just down right nasty and rude
Rowan Atkinson. Loved Mr Bean.
LMvCP
21 Feb 2003, 10:53 PM
Originally posted by norfcath
Cantinflas. Of course you youngsters have never seen a really great comedian, Mexican or American, who didn't need to resort to coarse, vulgar language to be funny.
He truley is a legend.
No one comes close to him and Chespirito..
Charlie Chaplin was a huge fan of Cantinflas
Monkeyboy2000
22 Feb 2003, 01:05 AM
I have to go with EvilRick on this one.
Los Polivoces kick ass. I also really liked the show called La Caravana, with such characters as Brozo, Valente Quintero, Margarito.
Levante
22 Feb 2003, 12:08 PM
Originally posted by Various Styles
Tucker is also funny but i have only seen him in Movies, Friday, and with Jackie Chan. The rest of the comedians i have seen do stand up. Speaking of which there was an HBO special with this Mexican American, not sure what his name was. He was talking about how You allways see black people working at Taco bell and Mexicans working at Kentuky Fried Chicken, funny stuff...
The guy that was making the jokes about blacks in Taco Bell and Mexicans working at KFC is almost surely Carlos Mencia. I've heard him use that on some of his CD's.
Levante
22 Feb 2003, 12:09 PM
Originally posted by EvilRick
CANTINFLAS is in a completely different level, which none of the bozos mentioned in this thread will ever hope to reach.
Agreed.....I should have put him in the poll.
VS, Can you do this?
afgrijselijkheid
22 Feb 2003, 12:10 PM
chris rock, richard jeni, carlos mencia
IncaEnclave
22 Feb 2003, 12:16 PM
How bout that fat baby face Mexican-American. I think his first name is Gabriel. Just looking at that guy's facial expressions makes me crack.
Don Boppero 3000
22 Feb 2003, 04:28 PM
My favorite is Dave Chapelle. The man is funny as sin. Also, one of my favorite comedians was this midget named Tun Tun maybe you heard of him. Also I'm sure of his name but he played the character Super Chile.
Don Boppero 3000
22 Feb 2003, 04:30 PM
I voted for JLG cause he's one crazy cat!
efernandez9
22 Feb 2003, 07:58 PM
Originally posted by IncaEnclave
How bout that fat baby face Mexican-American. I think his first name is Gabriel. Just looking at that guy's facial expressions makes me crack. JUAN GABRIEL?
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