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Comedian Bernie Mac Is Dead
August 9th, 2008
Comedian Bernie Mac died at Northwestern Memorial hospital in Chicago early this morning, reports the Chicago Sun TImes. The funny standup comedian and star of televison’s popular Bernie Mac show was 50.
Mary Ann Grossett, Mac’s sister-in-law spoke with People Magazine, sharing details of her famous inlaw’s final struggle:
He couldn’t breathe. He opened his eyes on his own and looked at Rhonda (his wife). She called his name, and he opened his eyes and nodded to her. She smiled at him and told him, ‘Don’t leave me … ‘I’m waiting for you to come back.’ He shrugged his shoulders, and she said that’s when she knew he was tired. He signaled to her that his body was tired….
[The doctors] were working on him. They tried to resuscitate him two times. One time he came back for about an hour. Then he went into cardiac arrest the second time.
His cause of death has not been officially reported but Mac has been hospitalized with Pneumonia for about a week, as reported by BET.com last week.
Stella Foster, the Chicago Sun Times reporter who broke the story says “It brought tears to my eyes because Bernie Mac has always been my all-time favorite entertainer and comedian. It pains me to have to report that,” Foster said during a phone interview on Saturday morning.
Entertainment mogul Russell Simmons has a rack of Bernie Mac stories but one particularly funny one stands out. “When he saw the lead-in comedian get booed off stage in his first nationally televised appearance on Def Comedy Jam,” Simmons told BET.com, “he coined one his most, if not his single most loved lines. He said “I aint scared of you mother*******”. And at least for part of his career that became his calling card. I just remembered that and it made me laugh”
Remembering a King of Comedy: See photos and get a timeline of Bernie Mac’s life.
my prayers go to bernie mac’s family and friends.you will be truely missed.you are a legend.but got took you from this earth.and sent you to heaven where you are tellin jokes and makin heaven a better place for our loved one.everytime i watch your show or your movies i be like why god always take the good and talented people from us.mr. mac we love you and your name will live with us as long as we praise you and to continue and watch your movies and your shows.god bless you.
my prayers go to bernie mac’s family and friends.you will be truely missed.you are a legend.but god took you from this earth.and sent you to heaven where you are tellin jokes and makin heaven a better place for our loved one.everytime i watch your show or your movies i be like why god always take the good and talented people from us.mr. mac we love you and your name will live with us as long as we praise you and to continue and watch your movies and your shows.god bless you.
LOSING BERNIE IS LIKE LOSING A FATHER A BROTHER A UNCLE, MY HEART WAS CRUSHED TO HEAR THE LOST OF MAC MAN, YOU WILL BE FOREVER MISSED!!!!! WE LOVE YOU
I’m going to really miss you bernie, i still can’t believe this. Your mission here is done.You found another home. R.I.P. Bernard McCullough, my condolence goes out to your family
To BERNIE FAMILY:
kEEP YOUR HEAD UP AND LOOK TO THE HILL WHICH ALL OF YOUR HELP GOING COME FROM THE LORD. MAY GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU BUT THERE IS A BRIGHTER DAY AHEADI UNDERATAND WHAT IT FEEL LIKE TO LOSE A LOVE ONE.
We felt devasted by the news. He was our favorite comedian. We will keep praying for his family. He left his mark in this world. WE will truely miss him.
helo my name is zana dennis and i understand that you all misss bernie mac and i do to it was like i knew him along with the people he knew I LUV YALL and have a bless day
I believe that God needed laughter up in heaven, However we will miss you here on earth until we see you again God Bless. I pray that God’s arms hold your wife and family close
Jee still cannot believe you are gone, u shine you light on this world and it is not worthy of such talenet as you stretch as far as the stars in the sky. God rest you soul let you spirit be a guide for people who believe they have no worth in this world, God has blesses you bernie mac he truly has. U have returned home and in the house of the lord is where you will do your work.
BERNIE IT STILL SEEMS AS A DREAM I CANT BELIEVE YOU ARE REALLY GONE I HEARD THE NEWS ON THE RADIO AND I COULDNT DO ANYTHING BUT CRY I MISS U BERNIE
BERNIE MAC U MAY BE GONE BUT YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN YOU ARE INCREDIBLE AS A PERSON AND AMAZING AT BEING A COMEDIAN!!! YOU’VE BROUGHT LAUGHTER TO ALOT OF HEARTS AND HOMES!!! I LOVE YOU AND WILL NEVER TAKE IT BACK!!
BERNIE MAC I LOVE YOU M*****F***ER REST IN PEACE!!!!!
WOW! It is still so hard to believe that he is finally gone. I will forever remember Bernie Mac as one of the greatest gifts to comedy. God bless his family. He will truly be missed and never forgotten. We Love You Bernie!!!
It is still so hard to believe that he is finally gone. I will forever remember Bernie Mac as one of the greatest gifts to comedy. God bless his family. He will truly be missed and never forgotten. We Love You Bernie!!!
GOD BLESS YOU…R.I.P ..from all of us down here in Trinidad and Tobago
THANK YOU 4 ALL U HAVE DONE…KEEPING US ENTERTAINED… !!! MAY GOD BLESS U AND REST IN PEACE.. R.I.P !!!!!
I’m a late on leaving this comment but I can still say Bernie Mac was a legend and forever will be I grew up watching his comedy all his movie and sat down everyday I could watching his movies and shows because he was such a comedian and as I can see a dopwn to earth guy. For the family of Bernie Mac god be with you for the loss of a wonderful Human Being Bernie Mac rest In Peace God will Forever Be With His Wonderful Soul.
Barney Mack, I still cant even watch his sit-com I cant even begin to explain what i felt at the time of his death. He will be missed
Bernie Mac touched alot of people. I am sure everyone is aware of the entertainment that he brought into everyone’s life that he touched. As with those who are famous they touch people that they will never see or even know exists….he touched mine. Many times over. I am sad that he is gone. I wish I could have known him but I feel very blessed to have known the man that he gave to the world. He is a man whom will always be remembered.
I was watching the moovie “soul man” I had so much fun and after I went to internet to chec titles of some Macs dvds that I can buy in NY that’s when I sow that he died in 2008 I’m still shocked and I believe that I’m not the only one who’s shocked in Mozambique… God bless you Bernie Mac we’ll always remember and miss you…
And god bless your family too.