One of my favorite bloggers happens to be a comedy writer for "Mind of Mencia," and as you might expect, she has a different take on the whole Rogan-Mencia confrontation.

The general contention among many comedians is that Mencia is a joke thief.

Pamie's response is that, uh, a lot of these jokes are so obvious that they were bound to be written by multiple jokesmiths.

Unfortunately, in Mencia's case, he's been confronted about alleged joke plagiarism before. George Lopez (another unfunny comic) confronted Mencia about allegedly swiping 13 minutes of his routine for an HBO special. Lopez told all about this on some Howard Stern broadcast.

I'd be very curious to see if any comics come out and support Mencia. Perhaps he's alone on an island, having pissed off the comedy gods (or perhaps some karmic structure).

I've defended BOOK writers on accusations of plagiarism before; however, given that books are comprised of tens of thousands of words, often hundreds of thousands, the odds of inadvertently matching another piece of work are actually significantly higher.

You have to be able to prove intent at some level, and the Rogan video has comics on the record saying, "Uh, I opened for Carlos in 2004, and I debuted that joke in front of him only to hear it on his next comedy album ... "

I'm paraphrasing. However, that's pretty ballsy on Mencia's part, if true.

However, for the sake of being fair, I wanted to post Pamie's link. She's a terrific writer (and original, too).