horatio said:

i thought everybody but DL Hughley was funny, he just sucks to me.

But Steve and Cedric seemed like they were trying too hard to get laughs, while with Bernie it just came natural. he was the star of the show.

That broke me... less then 5% ever see the complications he did with his disease.

horatio said:

Yup, the others are very not funny.

I did love Bernie though, and I really liked his show....reminded me of growing up with my 3 brothers.

Bernie Mac's family expected him to pull through

CHICAGO (AP) — Comedian Bernie Mac's family had expected him to fully recover from the bout of pneumonia that put him in a hospital three weeks ago, his daughter said Sunday.
However, Je'niece Childress said that as time passed she and her mother braced for the possibility that he could die.

Mac, 50, died Saturday from what his publicist said were complications from pneumonia.

Childress said Mac had been at Northwestern Memorial Hospital since the middle of July.
"Initially when he was hospitalized we expected him to come back home, but as the weeks went on, I kind of knew," Childress told The Associated Press.

Mac also suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease, but he had said the condition went into remission in 2005. His publicist, Danica Smith, has said the pneumonia was unrelated to the sarcoidosis.

Mac, born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough in Chicago, got his start doing standup as a child. His successful career included his own Fox television series, The Bernie Mac Show and starring roles in Ocean's Eleven,Bad Santa,Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle and Transformers.

Childress said Mac, who maintained a home in the south Chicago suburb of Frankfort, was a loving father, husband and grandfather. Childress, 30, is his only child, and has a 1-year-old daughter. She said her mother, Rhonda McCullough, and Mac were married for 32 years.

"He was a hard man and he made no apologies for that," Childress said. "When it came to me and my mother and my daughter he was the softest."

Recently, Mac's brand of comedy caught him some flack when he joked about menopause, sexual infidelity and promiscuity at a July fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Obama's campaign later said the jokes were "inappropriate."

"I kind of figured he was going to get a lot of backlash," Childress said. "Telling that joke at that time probably wasn't the best idea, but that's him."

Children said there was always laughter in their home.

"Because that's just who he was," Childress said. "I'm sad that my daughter will never know or be able to feel how much he loved her."

"I think he will always be remembered as one of the original kings of comedy," Childress said. "I think what made him so special to people was that even though he was a celebrity he just seemed so down to earth and so much like a part of your family."

She said funeral arrangements were pending. Smith said a public memorial would be held next weekend at House of Hope in Chicago.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

:rose:

I rarely watch your show and saw maybe 3 of yyour movies, but i knew of you!! RIP Bernie

Wow.... And just the other day someone posted a story asking if it was true..... So so sad to hear this. He was a funny man and I for one will miss him

bernie 1st came in2 my life via def comedy jam and ever since then, just thinking about him brings a smile 2 my face. now we have lost another funny soul, it makes u imagine what it's like in the afterworld with richard, redd, robin harris, george carlin, and now bernie just shooting the breeze. i am grateful that their works r still here on earth 2 enjoy. and maybe the next time u milk and cookies u'll smile because u'll think of bernie saying that. damn another one gone and issac hayes ...

in the immortal words of bernie mac

JustErin said:

I loved his show too. I was so excited when I heard he was going to have his own show cause I loved him in The Kings of Comedy and Def Comedy Jam and it was hella funny. It was like it was yesterday when all that was happening and now this. It's still painful to think about it.
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Timmy84 said:

They squashed the feud they had. They were actually in talks about doing Kings of Comedy 2. All three were in besides Bernie, they said he wasn't up for it health wise.

purplecam said:

Yep, I had no idea it was that serious. His death hit me like a bolt of lightning. Couldn't believe it, and only 50. Damn.


If there is a heaven, he's up there talkin' sh!t with Carlin & Pryor right now.


RIP

horatio said:

Thanks for posting. I forgot those "bug eyes" he would make just before you tell you he was going to "crack your head to the white meat."

Man, I am sure going to miss him. He was great in everything he was in.

Bernie n Players Club as Dollar Bill was just hilarious. Me and my boys was always tryin' to do his voice and his lines.

"Som'body gonna be in tubble"

L4OATheOriginal said:

I LOVE THIS! Bernie reminds so much of my uncles and the time when I was a kid getting in trouble trying to hang around "grown folks" and listening to grown folks business instead of going outside to play with the other kids.

Mac always reminded me of Robin Harris.

Graycap23 said:

Totally!

The eyes, the fed-up old-man shtick, the "beat-em-til-the-white-meat-shows" philosophy on child-rearing... They were both hilarious.

FunkMistress said:

Yes they were, and both died young. Robin I think was in his 30's.

this still seems so unreal,
he was so alive - his smile was so pure

lots of stars pass on, thats part of life
but this one hit me a lot like john ritter

so young, such talent...

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Hilarious! Like I said, he's NEVER been "not funny" in any of his roles. That's a helluva feat.

Graycap23 said:

Damn, I never thought about that but you're kinda right. They do have similiar styles.

MuthaFunka said:

Yes, he was a lot like Robin. I had an old cassette tape of one of Robin's stand up gigs. I cried it was so funny. Bernie reminded me of him. Be`be's kids!!

this was on CNN last night ..but it seems they r only showing ashton, but cedric the entertainer, dl hugly, steve harvey and the cast from the bernie mac show was on there as well

http://www.cnn.com/video/...ie.mac.cnn

For those of in the Chi-town area, WCIU (Channel 26) is doing a Bernie Mac tribute this Saturday night with a Bernie Mac show marathon plus some interviews that they did with him on various local news programs.

How come there isn't a lot of Bernie Mac stand-up available. I think actually on 3 stand-ups of him exist. He was on Def Comedy Jam twice in '91 and '92 and Kings of Comedy DVD. Thats unless you have his '94 HBO special.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I don't recall him doing a lot of stand up specials.

MuthaFunka said:

He didn't do none of those HBO specials back in the early '90s, like One Night Stand or Comedy Half Hour??

LittleBLUECorvette said:

I don't recall of any. I'll check...

MuthaFunka said:

Hell, every other black comedian from that Def Jam era had one. Why not the Mac Man??

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Nope, I checked on IMDB.com and neither of those were listed.

MuthaFunka said:

I checked their also and it's not listed, but neither is his '94 HBO Special Who You 'Wit

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Oh ok, so there may be some out there that ain't listed on IMDB.