America's Great Loss

This blog is all about Bernie Mac. For all of you who didn’t know, he died recently, on august 9 2008. Bernie Mac or Bernard Jeffrey McCullough was an actor, writer and producer as well. He was born in Chicago and became a "stand-up comedian". He gained his last name "Mac" from being the host of a TV show named Midnight Mac. He began to be popular late in his life. In 2000, Bernie Mac was missing his career as a stage comedian and he toured as part of the "original Kings of Comedy". A year later, Bernie was signed for his own show that became a huge hit. The "Bernie Mac Show" aired for five years. The show won an Emmy and the show was rated number forty-seven out of fifty as the "greatest TV dads of all time".

One of his stand-ups was number seventy-two in "100 greatest stand-ups of all time". Bernie Mac had a daughter in 1978 named Je'Niece. In 2005, Bernie was diagnosed with Sarcoidosis but that was not his cause of death. On July 24th this year, he went to the hospital and the doctors told him he had pneumonia. He died from a "Complication" of this pneumonia. At fifty years old, he died. Six thousand people assisted at his funeral. Samuel L. Jackson was there as well. For those of you who wonder where you might have seen him, here are some movies he played in.


Mini Filmography
*Booty Call - 1997
*Ocean's Eleven - 2001
*Bad Santa - 2003
*Ocean's twelve - 2004
*Guess Who - 2005
*Ocean's thirteen - 2007



Uncensored, lots and lots of swear words, you've been warned.

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