Much has changed about standup comic and part-time lightning rod Carlos Mencia since his Comedy Central series "Mind of Mencia" ended after four seasons in 2008 and he was branded a "joke thief" by his peers 3x burn body fat and comedy fans for allegedly stealing material from Bill Cosby, George Lopez and other lesser-known comics.
For starters, he shed more than 70 pounds, a physical transformation Mencia attributes to being called portly by a diabetic friend who was being wheeled into an operating room to have his toe amputated.
"He just looked at me and said, 'What are you going to do, man? ... You're fat, too,'" Mencia said. "And then they just wheeled him away. How messed up is that? I was just like, 'Wait, that's it?' That really freaked me out."
The 45-year-old Mencia also sought therapy to help him cope with the lida daidaihua fallout from the plagiarism claims that nearly ruined his career, accusations first leveled by fellow comic Joe Rogan during a well-publicized, on-stage spat with Mencia at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles. Soon, more accusations emerged, and he was even lampooned on "South Park."
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