Bernie Mac has died at the age of 50 from pneumonia, which just seems insane.
I guess there will be no Ocean’s Sixteen.
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Small world. Skippy worked with him.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.
Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.
Republicans cannot even be trusted with their own money.
Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.
I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.
They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!
Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.
Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.
They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”
Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.
The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.
Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?
Consistently wrong since 2002
if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.
We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.
Impressively dumb. Congratulations.
Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?
These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.
These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.
Let me file that under fuck it.
I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.
Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.
The gop is a fucking disgrace.
John Giord
Maybe Obama can raise him from the dead. Sorry. There was a hint of doubt in that statement. I know Obama can raise him from the dead.
Krista
That was kind of dick-ish, John Giord. This isn’t about politics.
I’m really sorry to hear about Bernie Mac. 50 is way too young to die. My sympathies go out to his widow and the rest of his family.
debrazza
The importance of his death is emblematic of the racial divide in this country. In the Black community he was enormously popular, from the Original Kings of Comedy to the Bernie Mac show. He worked his way up through the chitlin’ circuit until eventually he was doing films alongside Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Matt Damon. It’s rather impressive really. Also, how can you not honor the life of a man who was in 3 of the funniest movies of all time, Friday, Bad Santa and BAPS (a highly underrated film). While he certainly rubbed me the wrong way, he could be really funny.
And yeah, Ludacris should be a bit concerned.
iluvsummr
I’d forgotten he was in Bad Santa. I loved him in the Original Kings of Comedy but never watched the Bernie Mac show. Rest in peace Bernie.
John Cole
I am with you on Friday, but you lost me on BAPS and Bad Santa. And yes, I watched BAPS, and regret it completely. I think you can guess why.
John Giord
Friday was okay. Bad Santa had its moments, but I found it mainly depressing. Baps was atrocious. I watched it for 30 minutes. Talk about putting black women in a bad light. I actually felt sorry for Halle Berry. Saw Bernie Mac a couple of times. Better than your average sitcom. Then again, that’s not saying much.
rob!
famous hollywood agent Bernie Brillstein has also died, so that’s two famous Bernies in as many days.
if i was Bernie Kopel, i’d be nervous, is all i’m saying.
MMM
curse of the Bad Santa….John Ritter, than Bernie Mac; watch out Billy Bob
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I thought Bernie was great in Bad Santa, Mr. 3000 (an underrated movie), and the first two Ocean’s movies (he was one of the few good things about the second one, and nobody was good in the third). As with almost all stand-ups turned actors, though, his stand-up work is his real legacy. He was a master of the comedy of barely-contained (and yet entirely justifiable, at least in his telling) rage. I have rarely laughed as hard as when I saw The Original Kings Of Comedy in a theater, with a mixed-race crowd – and having him come on last was exactly the right choice. He blew the walls down. I would argue, by the way, that Kings is the only truly great movie Spike Lee’s ever done (you probably forgot he directed it, didn’t you?).
dbrown
He was very funny (in the few shows I have seen) and he will be missed. This world needs more laughter.
KXB
Mac was the best part of The Kings of Comedy. The other guys went over familiar turf, but Mac used his messed up family life – his drugged out sister, her kids which he now has to raise, and his brother who walked out on raising the kids. One of his funniest, dirtiest, and earliest jokes was , “Guy asks me, ‘Hey Bernie, does p**** taste like pumpkin pie?’ What they hell you asking me for? I ain’t never eat no pumpkin pie!”
Then, there is his explanation of the word “motherf*****”
youtube.com/watch?v=M9FaHXIhX_4
John Cole
This is a funnier clip– “I’m gonna bust his head to the white meat.”
bperk
This is a great comedic loss. I loved his stand-up and his TV show. I thought that scene with Matt Damon in Ocean’s 11 was the best part of the movie. RIP.
Steve M.
Obviously Bernie Mac was killed with experimental untreatable pneumonia spores cooked up in a germ-warfare lab run by B. HUSSEIN Obama’s Al Qaeda pals (in collaboration with William Ayres)….
Incertus
No one mentioned his part in Bill Bellamy’s “How To Be a Player”? Elitists!
skippy
i worked on the bernie mac show, & i found him to be a kind and generous performer, quite concerned w/the quality of the show being produced under his name. i write my thoughts here.
maxbaer (not the original)
That’s pretty nuts to die from pneumonia nowadays. They said he had sarcoidosis as well, though.
RIP Bernie.
Michael D.
The Bernie Mac show was hilarious Skippy. Y’all did a great job.
“Listen up, America…”
I always got a kick out of these little interludes in the show.
LanceThruster
Thank goodness someone dies that is liked so we don’t have to get scolded for piling on someone who was a worthless piece of crap. (What? Too soon?)
I liked him in “Bad Santa,” the rest is personal tastes and he wasn’t quite my cup of tea (never saw his TV show).