“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?” 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. We strive for accuracy and fairness.Bernie Mac, a stand-up comic who played evil-tongued but lovable rogues in films like “Bad Santa” and “Mr. More than 6,000 people attended a memorial service for Mac at the House of Hope Church on Chicago's South Side. On August 9, 2008, Mac died of pneumonia. They had a daughter, Je'Niece, and a granddaughter. In 1977 at age 19, Mac married his high school sweetheart, Rhonda, whom he credits with much of his success, particularly as the young couple struggled through the early years of Mac's fledgling career. The latter described Mac's impoverished childhood, strict upbringing and his mother's belief in him. Personal Lifeīesides his work in film and television Mac also authored two books, 2001's I Ain't Scared of You: Bernie Mac on How Life Is and his 2003 memoir, Maybe You Never Cry Again. Mac also reunited with the cast for the sequels Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). 3000 and then starred again in the race relations comedy Guess Who? (2005).
In 2004, he took on his first starring role as an aging baseball hero in Mr.
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