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Carlos Mencia was born seventeenth of eighteen children in
San Pedro Sula, Honduras. His father, Roberto Holness, is from
Honduras and his mother, Magdelena Mencia, is from Mexico and are both
Catholic. He was raised in East Los Angeles, California by his aunt
and uncle. By his own admission, staying out of trouble was difficult
growing up, but with the help of his family he excelled in school and
stayed out of gangs. Carlos Mencia majored in electrical
engineering at CSULA but left early to pursue a career in comedy after
a successful performance at open mic night at The Laugh Factory.
Carlos Mencia was a quick success at such venerated LA
stand-up venues as The Comedy Store and The L.A. Cabaret. This led to
appearances on The Arsenio Hall Show and Buscando Estrellas, where he
attained the title "International Comedy Grand Champion". He would
continue to do stand-up, including a very successful tour in 2001 with
Freddy Soto and Pablo Francisco, "The Three Amigos". Carlos
Mencia also did two half-hour specials on HBO, the second of which
won him a CableACE Award for Best Stand-Up Comedy Special. After the
release of his first comedy album by Warner Records, Take A Joke
America, Carlos Mencia performed his break-out performance
on Comedy Central Presents in 2002.
