Latino comedian Carlos Mencia was raised in East LA. An amateur functionality at the Have fun Stock led him to stop his job within an insurance provider and leave university, where he previously been studying electric engineering, to become standup comic. After executing around the LA region, he was called International Humor Grand Champion over the Superstar Search-like plan Buscando Estrellas in 1989 and begun to arrive on network and cable, gaining a CableACE prize nomination for his second appearance on HBO’s Humor Half-Hour particular in 1995. In 1999, he documented his debut record, Have a Joke America, released in-may 2000 on Warner Bros. Information.