R.I.P. Bernie Mac

He's getting better:

http://www.blackvoices.com/blogs/2008/08/04/bernie-mac-alive-and-well/

my Friend works with a guy who knows bernie mac and he told me bernie mac died friday but it isnt up on the news yet or the internet but u heard it hear first

Its on the NYTimes. RIP Bernie Mac :(

It's true, sadly:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-bernie-mac,0,1521239.story

holy crap! wow. that is too bad.

WAU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeLaCjNRlyA

Damn shame.

man

holy shit

RIP

good job ethan

fuuuuuck. rip.

this is very bad news ... RIP

;_;

this is making me really sad

Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em. FUCK 'EM UP AGAINST THE WALL.

this fucking sucks

RIP

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHhjYhPC7eY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkpGBiSck20

Rest in peace. No one will ever utter "butt-fuckin'" on-screen with the same amount of proper disgust and disdain again.

superbummer. RIP. seems like he still had a lot of potential for great work ahead of him.

aw

Don't you worry about Beanie. Beanie gonna be just fine. Beanie gonna surprise everyone...

dude was YOUNG.

haha wowwwww when i saw the tread title i was all thinkin like "lol c'mon fool me twice dogg"

rip bernz mourn ya till i join ya doggie ;_;

RIP :(

meanwhile, Larry the Cable Guy, Dane Cook, and Bill Engvall still live.....:(

Okay now I hate you.

You are the messenger, and you will be shot.

Bernie Mac is sort of like Billie Carter and Geraldine Ferraro put together. DC X

Should have revived this thread in tribute.

I liked Bernie's comedy, though oddly didn't enjoy his set in the otherwise great Original Kings of Comedy. excellent delivery. shame shame shame.

can you not comment on this thread please

his part in kings of comedy was incredible, my favorite of the four

eat a dick

in any case, I enjoyed D.L.s set the best, by no means was Bernie's set horrible, I just wasn't into it.

note above I said I enjoyed his comedy, cumguzzler

Aw, this is too bad. I was watching the Bernie Mac Show only last night...

:-(((( Man, this fucking sucks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBoTWubFM3Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgfhKOZZZww

Really, really, really sorry to hear this. The guy was super sharp; it was good to see him have so much success, especially with the life story he had. Rest in peace.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/arts/television/10mac.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

SUCKS

fucked up. rip

Best part of Bad Santa is when he's repeating 'Half' 'Hayaaalf' god he was good.

I'ma bust his motherfuckin' HEAD HEAD HEAD HEAD HEAD HEAD HEAD HEAD

wait what

damn

shit.

i'd just started watching reruns of the show as part of my daily routine. he slayed in Kings of Comedy, by far the funniest imo. RIP.

RIP :(

a poem I think Bernie would have liked ^_^

A Super Clean Country by Linh Dinh

You (almost) never see it in public so
You have to conjure it up all day long,
Drag it into every conversation,
To flesh out the corporate picture.

It’s an inevitable verbal tic—wouldn’t you say?—
For a super-clean country.
Holy shit, that shit’s wack.
She thinks she’s hot shit but she ain’t dogshit.
There’s nothing but shit on the internet.
Why are you so hung up on shit like that?
I got some good shit at home, some far-out shit.
You’re so full of shit, you dumbshit motherfucker.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b361/tapestore/jordin.jpg

so sad.

RIP

Great interview with Charlie Rose.

It's 23 minutes in.

andwhat, killer of comedians

i first heard this from Elliot Gould.
RIP. way too young.

This was all over the UK media this weekend, even though Oceans xx apart, we don't know him at all.

Did you guys get the news when Tommy Cooper died?

(No offence to BM or anyone who knows him, of course)

the BM show ran on Sky One. i was more familiar with Mac than, say, Heath Ledger.

He was in Charlie's Angels, wasn't he? And some British people know Original Kings Of Comedy (I do, and it is awesome)

But you are secretly American, Stevie!

He did a routine about trying to play categories with some other adults and only knowing about kid stuff ("Television personalities: I got three Ts for you, Tony the Tiger") that is much loved in my house. RIP.

thanks for the interview link--that was good to see.

RIP.

But you are secretly American, Stevie!

This has been previously suggested, and subsequently proven...

i first heard this from Elliot Gould.
Were you attending a screening at BAM and he was introducing one of his movies?

At Obama Event, a Comedian’s Jokes Fall Flat
By JOHN M. BRODER
7/13/08

CHICAGO — It is one of the iron rules of politics: you have more to fear from your friends than from your enemies.

On Friday night, the comedian Bernie Mac, a longtime friend and supporter of Senator Barack Obama, set out to entertain a crowd at a $2,300-a-head Obama fund-raising event with humor touching on issues like menopause and prostitution. But by the time Mr. Mac was wrapping up his remarks, some in the crowd had turned on him, and when Mr. Obama took the stage, he told the comedian to “clean up your act.”

In his routine, Mr. Mac said Mr. Obama should watch the 2003 movie he made with Chris Rock about a black president, “Head of State,” to prepare himself for the dirty tricks the opposition will play on him if he wins the White House.

“People like rumors,” Mr. Mac said. “They’re going to say things like, ‘You was at the club with Lil’ Kim, and you and Kanye West got into a fist fight.’ You can’t get upset. You’ve got to keep hope alive.”

At another point in his standup routine, he began: “My little nephew came to me and he said, ‘Uncle, what’s the difference between a hypothetical question and a realistic question?’ I said, I don’t know, but I said, ‘Go upstairs and ask your mother if she would make love to the mailman for $50,000.’ ”

The joke rambled on until the punch line that he and his nephew lived with “two hos.”

When it came time for Mr. Obama — who has made an issue of parental responsibility among black men — to speak, he gave an abbreviated version of his campaign speech and then chastised Mr. Mac.

“We can’t afford to be divided by race,” Mr. Obama said. “We can’t afford to be divided by region or by class and we can’t afford to be divided by gender, which by the way, that means, Bernie, you’ve got to clean up your act next time. This is a family affair. By the way, I’m just messing with you, man.”

Later, an Obama spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, formally repudiated Mr. Mac.

“Senator Obama told Bernie Mac that he does not condone these statements and that what he said was inappropriate,” Ms. Psaki said.

remembering bernie mac, courtesy of chicago public radio.

obama killed bernie mac

i heard from someone who was working on that movie where he's playing a soul singer that his health was up and down during filming and they thought he might need to be hospitalized a couple of times.

yikes, this Soul Men thing :(

it sounds good on paper

it's grim.

it does not sound good on paper

otm

i'm supposed to screen it next week but yeah it does not seem terribly promising

There's a scene inside a coffin.