Carlos Mencia is going to go on a political rant Saturday night, but at the end, you will not have a clue who he would support in Nov. 8’s presidential election.
“I think that as comedians we choose a side, and when we do that we choose to be funny for one part of America,” he explained during a phone call last week from a concert stop in Florida.
Mencia,who brings his stand-up show to Casino del Sol on Saturday, Nov. 5, is staying neutral, following the lead of George Carlin.
“I don’t know who he voted for. I know that he made fun of everything he found stupid,” Mencia said.
Even though Mencia isn’t picking sides, he’s doing plenty of picking on the candidates when he takes the stage.
Here’s a bit of what you can expect from his 21-and-older show:
The worst of the worst: “Really? This is the best we have? Somebody who’s supposedly selling the country and the other one who’s buying it? This is what we got? ... Even Bush who couldn’t pronounce ‘nuclear,” even his campaign was about (expletive) he was going to do. Even one of, on paper, the dumbest presidents in our history, even he was positive — ‘Let me tell you what I’m going to do for you.’”
A perfect race: “I feel like these are the two perfect people to run for president at the same time because had it not been these two, it would have been a landslide either way. Anybody else running against Trump would have demolished him. And anybody else running against Hillary would have destroyed her. I think what happened in America is we picked the two people who have genital herpes and now it’s like, (expletive), who do we pick? ‘She hasn’t had an outbreak in a long time. Oh, (expletive), she just got one! He got one, too.’”
No, he won’t be encouraging you to vote: “I honestly don’t believe that the way our system is set up that this is the most important election ever. … George Bush didn’t (expletive) this country up. The divisive nature of eight years of Obama didn’t (expletive) this country up. Yes, compared to emerging markets like India and China, who are still in growth periods, sure they are doing 4, 5 percent GDP and we’re doing 1. But we are in a maturation period. … I try to let people know this isn’t the end of the world. This isn’t the end of America as we know it.”
Everyone gets the Beltway jokes outside of the Beltway: “Now I can make fun of Hillary. I can make fun of Trump. I can make fun of the media. … For me, how often do we get to make jokes about the guy who’s running as an independent or the Libertarian candidate who didn’t know who any of the (world) leaders were, and a significant amount of the audience is actually going to understand how funny that is. That’s pretty fun to do because that’s usually (expletive) I save for D.C., where they are political all the time. But I think the trick right now is to make the people who are voting for Trump and the people who are voting for Hillary in the same room laugh at the same jokes.”
