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Carlos Mencia

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Ned Arnel Mencia (born October 22, 1967), known professionally as Carlos Mencia (and previously Ned Holness) is a Honduran-born American comedian, writer, and actor. [1]

93 relations: American football, Anheuser-Busch brands, Ari Shaffir, Bill Cosby, Bill Cosby: Himself, Blog, Bobby Lee, CableACE Award, California, California State University, Los Angeles, Carlos Mencia: New Territory, Catholic Church, CBS Radio, Chappelle's Show, Comedian, Comedy, Comedy Central, Comedy Central Presents, Comic Relief, Criminal justice, Culture, Dane Cook, Dave Chappelle, Domestic violence, Drawn Together, Eastside Los Angeles, Electrical engineering, Farce of the Penguins, Fatherhood (book), Fishsticks (South Park), Freddy Soto, Galavisión, Gang, Garfield High School (California), Gawker, George Lopez, HBO, Honduras, Hurricane Katrina, In Living Color, Jay Leno, Joe Rogan, Joke theft, Kanye West, Krewe of Orpheus, Latino, Laugh Factory, List of Drawn Together episodes, List of students at South Park Elementary, Los Angeles County, California, ..., Los Angeles Times, Mad TV, Maggie Rita's, Marc Maron, Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Maxim (magazine), Mexico, Mind of Mencia, Mitzi Shore, Moesha, Open mic, Opie and Anthony, Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour, Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour (2006), Orlando Sentinel, Our Family Wedding, Pablo Francisco, Plagiarism, Portmanteau, Race (human categorization), Relevant (magazine), River Cities' Reader, San Pedro Sula, Sketch comedy, Social class, South Park, Stand-up comedy, Super Bowl XLI, Taco Bell, The Arsenio Hall Show, The Comedy Store, The Heartbreak Kid (2007 film), The Howard Stern Show, The New York Times, The Proud Family, The Shield, The Wall Street Journal, Times Herald-Record, Trouble (Natalia Kills album), University of Colorado Denver, WTF with Marc Maron, XM Satellite Radio, 29 Palms (film). Expand index (43 more) »

American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

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Anheuser-Busch brands

Anheuser-Busch, a wholly owned subsidiary of Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, is the largest brewing company in the United States, with a market share of 45 percent in 2016.

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Ari Shaffir

Ari Shaffir (born February 12, 1974) is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, writer, and producer.

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Bill Cosby

William Henry Cosby Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, musician, author, and convicted sex offender.

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Bill Cosby: Himself

Bill Cosby: Himself is a 1983 stand-up comedy film featuring Bill Cosby.

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Blog

A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts").

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Bobby Lee

Robert Young Lee Jr. (born September 18, 1971) is an American actor and comedian best known for being a cast member on MADtv from 2001 to 2009 and for his roles in the films Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004), Pineapple Express (2008), and The Dictator (2012).

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CableACE Award

The CableACE Award (earlier known as the ACE Awards; ACE was an acronym for Award for Cable Excellence) was an award that was given from 1978 to 1997 to honor excellence in American cable television programming.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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California State University, Los Angeles

California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA) is a public comprehensive university in the heart of Los Angeles, one of the 23 universities in the California State University (CSU) system.

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Carlos Mencia: New Territory

Carlos Mencia: New Territory is a comedy album and Comedy Central special by American comedian Carlos Mencia recorded and released in 2011.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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CBS Radio

CBS Radio was a radio broadcasting company and radio network operator owned by CBS Corporation, and consolidated radio station groups owned by CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting/Group W since the 1920s and Infinity Broadcasting since the 1970s.

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Chappelle's Show

Chappelle's Show is an American sketch comedy television series created by comedians Dave Chappelle and Neal Brennan, with Chappelle hosting the show and starring in the majority of its sketches.

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Comedian

A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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Comedy Central

Comedy Central is an American basic cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom.

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Comedy Central Presents

Comedy Central Presents is the network's main half-hour program which highlights either one or a series of stand-up comedians each episode.

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Comic Relief

Comic Relief is an operating British charity, and an independent sister organization of the United States-based Comic Relief Inc. It was founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia.

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Criminal justice

Criminal justice is the delivery of justice to those who have committed crimes.

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Culture

Culture is the social behavior and norms found in human societies.

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Dane Cook

Dane Jeffrey Cook (born March 18, 1972) is an American stand-up comedian and film actor.

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Dave Chappelle

David Khari Webber Chappelle (born August 24, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and producer.

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Domestic violence

Domestic violence (also named domestic abuse or family violence) is violence or other abuse by one person against another in a domestic setting, such as in marriage or cohabitation.

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Drawn Together

Drawn Together is an American adult animated sitcom that ran on Comedy Central from October 27, 2004 to November 14, 2007.

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Eastside Los Angeles

The Eastside of Los Angeles County, California, is a geographic region that includes the neighborhoods of Boyle Heights, El Sereno and Lincoln Heights within the city of Los Angeles and also East Los Angeles, California, an unincorporated area.

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Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering is a professional engineering discipline that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism.

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Farce of the Penguins

Farce of the Penguins is a 2007 American direct-to-video parody directed by Bob Saget.

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Fatherhood (book)

Fatherhood is a bestselling 1986 book attributed to Bill Cosby, and published by Doubleday & Company, Inc. The book was ghostwritten by humorist Ralph Schoenstein.

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Fishsticks (South Park)

"Fishsticks" is the fifth episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series South Park.

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Freddy Soto

Alfredo "Freddy" Soto, Jr. (June 22, 1970 – July 10, 2005) was an American comedian, writer and actor.

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Galavisión

Galavisión is a US-based, Spanish-language cable network owned by Univision Communications, Inc. The network is unrelated to the earlier Mexican channel of the same name, though both broadcast Televisa-produced programming.

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Gang

A gang is a group of associates, friends or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over territory in a community and engages, either individually or collectively, in illegal, and possibly violent, behavior.

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Garfield High School (California)

James A. Garfield High School is a public, year-round high school founded in 1925 in East Los Angeles, an unincorporated section of Los Angeles County, California.

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Gawker

Gawker was an American blog founded by Nick Denton and Elizabeth Spiers and based in New York City focusing on celebrities and the media industry.

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George Lopez

George Edward Lopez (born April 23, 1961) is an Mexican-American comedian and actor. He is known for starring in his self-produced ABC sitcom George Lopez. His stand-up comedy examines race and ethnic relations, including Mexican American culture. Lopez has received several honors for his work and contributions to the Latino community, including the 2003 Imagen Vision Award, the 2003 Latino Spirit Award for Excellence in Television and the National Hispanic Media Coalition Impact Award. He was also named one of "The Top 25 Hispanics in America" by Time magazine in 2005.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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Honduras

Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras), is a republic in Central America.

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Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina was an extremely destructive and deadly Category 5 hurricane that caused catastrophic damage along the Gulf coast from central Florida to Texas, much of it due to the storm surge and levee failure.

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In Living Color

In Living Color is an American sketch comedy television series that originally ran on Fox from April 15, 1990, to May 19, 1994.

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Jay Leno

James Douglas Muir Leno (born April 28, 1950) is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and television host.

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Joe Rogan

Joseph James Rogan (born August 11, 1967) is an American stand-up comedian, martial arts color commentator and podcast host.

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Joke theft

Joke theft is the act of performing and taking credit for comic material written by another person without their consent.

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Kanye West

Kanye Omari West (born June 8, 1977) is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, entrepreneur and fashion designer.

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Krewe of Orpheus

The Krewe of Orpheus (1993) is a relatively recent New Orleans Mardi Gras super krewe, which puts on one of the largest parades in the famous Carnival celebrations of New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Latino

Latino is a term often used in the United States to refer to people with cultural ties to Latin America, in contrast to Hispanic which is a demonym that includes Spaniards and other speakers of the Spanish language.

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Laugh Factory

Laugh Factory is a chain of comedy clubs in the United States.

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List of Drawn Together episodes

The following is a list of episodes for the animated television comedy Drawn Together.

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List of students at South Park Elementary

Various student characters attend the fictional school South Park Elementary in the animated television show South Park.

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Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, is the most populous county in the United States, with more than 10 million inhabitants as of 2017.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Mad TV

Mad TV (stylized as MADtv) is an American comedy sketch television series originally inspired by Mad magazine.

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Maggie Rita's

Maggie Rita's Tex-Mex Grill & Bar is a Tex-Mex restaurant in Houston.

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Marc Maron

Marcus David Maron (born September 27, 1963) is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, writer and actor.

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Mardi Gras in New Orleans

The holiday of Mardi Gras is celebrated in Southern Louisiana, including the city of New Orleans.

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Maxim (magazine)

Maxim is an international men's magazine, devised and launched in the UK in 1995, but based in New York City since 1997, and prominent for its photography of actresses, singers, and female models whose careers are at a current peak.

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Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

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Mind of Mencia

Mind of Mencia was an American television comedy series on the cable channel Comedy Central.

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Mitzi Shore

Mitzi Shore (née Saidel; July 25, 1930 – April 11, 2018) was an American comedy club owner.

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Moesha

Moesha is an American sitcom series that aired on the UPN network from January 23, 1996, to May 14, 2001.

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Open mic

An open mic or open mike (derived from the expression "open microphone") is a live show at a coffeehouse, nightclub, comedy club, strip club, institution or pub where audience members who are amateur performers or professionals who want to try out new material or plug an upcoming show are given the opportunity to perform onstage.

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Opie and Anthony

Opie and Anthony is an American radio show hosted by Gregg "Opie" Hughes and Anthony Cumia that aired from 1995 to 2014, with comedian Jim Norton serving as co-host from 2001.

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Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour

Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus was a comedy-based concert tour starting in 2006 and ending in 2008.

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Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus Comedy Tour (2006)

Opie and Anthony's Traveling Virus was the first of three comedy event series, concert tour in 2006, starring comedians featured on the Opie and Anthony show on XM Satellite Radio and CBS Radio.

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Orlando Sentinel

The Orlando Sentinel is the primary newspaper of Orlando, Florida and the Central Florida region.

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Our Family Wedding

Our Family Wedding is a romantic comedy film starring Forest Whitaker, America Ferrera, Carlos Mencia, Lance Gross, Shannyn Sossamon, Charlie Murphy and Regina King.

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Pablo Francisco

Pablo Ridson Francisco (born January 4, 1974) is an American stand-up comedian.

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Plagiarism

Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work.

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Portmanteau

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words,, p. 644 in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel.

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Race (human categorization)

A race is a grouping of humans based on shared physical or social qualities into categories generally viewed as distinct by society.

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Relevant (magazine)

Relevant (often styled as RELEVANT) is a bimonthly Christian lifestyle magazine exploring the intersection of faith and pop culture.

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River Cities' Reader

The River Cities' Reader is an independently owned alternative newspaper based in Davenport, Iowa.

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San Pedro Sula

San Pedro Sula is the capital of Cortés Department, Honduras.

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Sketch comedy

Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long.

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Social class

A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes.

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South Park

South Park is an American adult animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone and developed by Brian Graden for the Comedy Central television network.

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Stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy is a comic style in which a comedian performs in front of a live audience, usually speaking directly to them.

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Super Bowl XLI

Super Bowl XLI was an American football game played between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Indianapolis Colts and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion Chicago Bears to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2006 season.

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Taco Bell

Taco Bell is an American chain of fast food restaurants based out of Irvine, California and a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. The restaurants serve a variety of Tex-Mex foods that include tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, novelty and specialty items, and a variety of "value menu" items.

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The Arsenio Hall Show

The Arsenio Hall Show is an American syndicated late-night talk show created by and starring comedian Arsenio Hall.

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The Comedy Store

The Comedy Store is a comedy club located in West Hollywood, California, at 8433 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip.

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The Heartbreak Kid (2007 film)

The Heartbreak Kid is a 2007 romantic comedy film directed by the Farrelly brothers.

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The Howard Stern Show

The Howard Stern Show is an American talk radio show hosted by Howard Stern.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Proud Family

The Proud Family is an American animated sitcom that ran on Disney Channel from September 15, 2001 to August 12, 2005.

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The Shield

The Shield is an American crime drama television series starring Michael Chiklis that premiered on March 12, 2002, on FX in the United States, and concluded on November 25, 2008, after seven seasons.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Times Herald-Record

The Times Herald-Record, often referred to as The Record or Middletown Record in its coverage area, is a daily newspaper published in Middletown, New York, covering the northwest suburbs of New York City.

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Trouble (Natalia Kills album)

Trouble is the second studio album by English singer Teddy Sinclair under the name Natalia Kills.

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University of Colorado Denver

The University of Colorado Denver is a public research university in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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WTF with Marc Maron

WTF with Marc Maron is a weekly podcast and radio show hosted by stand-up comedian Marc Maron.

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XM Satellite Radio

XM Satellite Radio (XM) was one of the three satellite radio (SDARS) and online radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Holdings.

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29 Palms (film)

29 Palms is a 2002 film directed by Leonardo Ricagni and starring Jeremy Davies, Michael Lerner, Litefoot, Russell Means, Chris O'Donnell, Keith David, and Jon Polito.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Mencia

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