But already serious about his intended profession, he turned down the honor. Mac was voted class clown by his graduating class. Terrill/Associated PressĪt the Chicago Vocational Career Academy, Mr. Mac said.īernie Mac in Universal City, Calif., in 2004. “When I saw her laughing, I told her that I was going to be a comedian so she’d never cry again,” Mr. Cosby began telling a story about snakes in a bathroom, she started laughing despite herself.
“The Ed Sullivan Show” was playing, and Bill Cosby was on the show.
He told a television interviewer in 2001 that when he was 5, he saw his mother sitting in front of the television set crying. Mac received two Emmy nominations for outstanding lead actor in a comedy series, in 20.īernard Jeffrey McCullough was born in Chicago to a single mother who inspired him to become a comedian. “The Bernie Mac Show” show ran for five seasons, and Mr. On one show, he swiveled in his chair and said, “Now America, tell me again, why can’t I whip that girl?”
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Mac incorporated aspects of his stand-up act in the TV show, and during each episode would break the “fourth wall” and address the audience. “The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of,” Mr. But audiences saw enough of the character’s soft center to find the show touching. Mac’s special style of tough love “I’m gonna bust your head till the white meat shows,” he warned his surly teenage niece set the show apart from other family sitcoms and raised a few critical eyebrows. Spock,” Chris Norris wrote in a 2002 profile for The New York Times Magazine. Mac made a different kind of TV dad, “more Ike Turner than Dr. Mac portrayed a childless married comedian who reluctantly takes in his sister’s three youngsters when she goes into a drug-treatment program. In 2001, the Fox network took a gamble on “The Bernie Mac Show,” an unconventional family comedy in which Mr. He also excelled playing short-tempered misanthropes, notably in his starring role as Stan Ross, the nation’s most hated baseball player, in “Mr. Mac, an angry stage presence with a line of scabrous insults, parlayed his success as a stand-up comedian onto the big screen in a string of comedies that usually cast him as wily con men like Pastor Clever in “Friday” (1995) and Gin, the store detective in “Bad Santa” (2003). The cause was complications from pneumonia, his publicist, Danica Smith, said. 3000” and combined menace and sentiment as a reluctant foster father on “The Bernie Mac Show” on Fox, died on Saturday in Chicago. Bernie Mac, a stand-up comic who played evil-tongued but lovable rogues in films like “Bad Santa” and “Mr.
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