It's about time, right? This guy has gotten away with this for too long.

Ned has always been shady and I am glad someone is calling him out. He is a disgrace

I think Bobby Lee is awsome. I can't believe he's friends with that guy.

It doesn't matter how much of it is stolen, but the fact that any of it is stolen is one of several things: Definitely plagiarism, probably copyright infringement, and maybe trademark infringement (depending on the joke). Even if it's only one joke.

From reading more about it it would seem he has stolen a lot. Regardless of amount stolen it's the fact he's stolen ANYTHING that matters... being a comedian is hard, writing the material is hard. If you see the same comedian a lot you'll hear their same bits a lot because they use jokes as much as they can before they wear out...

So just stealing from others... that's just shit.

Louis C.K. did a bit about seeing a guy get hit by a car about a year before Retaliation came out, you can find the video comparing the jokes somewhere online... I'm a bit too busy to search right now

Nevermind. Works now.

He got away with it because few people have such a deep appreciation for comedy that they have any of hundreds to thousands of jokes on demand to compare to the content of other jokes. People might experience a general sense of boredom with his material for the familiarity of the ideas, but because he rewords the ideas (if he is stealing), people couldn't easily place the joke. It's taken actual comics - people who have studied comedy and do it for a living - to call Carlos on stealing. That's why he can get away with it.

The Modern Language Association, the organization responsible for the formatting of all research done in the humanities on the collegiate and graduate level, defines plagiarism in this way:

"Derived from the Latin word plagiarius ("kidnapper"), plagiarism refers to a form of cheating that has been defined as "the false assumption of authorship: the wrongful act of taking the product of another person's mind, and presenting it as one's own" (Alexander Lindey, Plagiarism and Originality [New York: Harper, 1952]2). Plagiarism involves two kinds of wrongs. Using another person's ideas, information, or expressions without acknowledging that person's work constitutes intellectual theft. Passing off another person's ideas, information, or expressions as your own to get a better grade or gain some other advantage constitutes fraud. Plagiarism is sometimes a moral and ethical offense rather than a legal one since some instances of plagiarism fall outside the scope of copyright infringement, a legal offense" (Gibaldi 66).

Gibaldi, Joseph. "MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers". New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2003.

It would seem that Mr. Mencia is guilty on both counts.

Rewording someone else's intellectual property without giving credit is precisely what plagiarism is. If I tried to pull that shit on my next paper, they'd kick my ass out of school.