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Bernie Mac on How Life Is: I Ain't Scared of You
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Bernie Mac on How Life Is: I Ain't Scared of You
Following the success of last fall's The Original Kings of Comedy movie and piggybacking on his new UPN sitcom The Bernie Mac Show, comedian Bernie Mac has taken his stand-up material and life story, and written about it in Bernie Mac on How Life Is: I Ain't Scared of You.
Here the Chicago native takes readers through a laugh-filled timeline, beginning with the first time he discovered the power of comedy at age five -- something ...
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Bernie Mac on How Life Is: I Ain't Scared of You--Chicago comedian has new book, TV show
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; Bernie Mac on How Life Is: I Ain't Scared of You; Chicago comedian has new book, tv show Bernie Mac, the man, is no joke. "I don't care about image. I don't care what people think," he said emphatically. The Chicago-born comedian was kidding around when he said mainstream wasn't ready for him. But
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Bernie Mac's laughs arise from his tears.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
; Byline: Tom Jicha Tears made Bernie Mac a clown. The star of this season's buzz comedy was a boy growing up in Chicago when his heart was broken one Sunday because his mother was crying and he couldn't understand why. He would eventually learn she was suffering from terminal cancer, which would
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Comic Bernie Mac brings his brash brand of humor to his own TV series
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; Williams, Kam Indianapolis Recorder 11-30-2001 Comic Bernie Mac brings his brash brand of humor to his own TV series Bernie Mac has come a long way from his humble roots. The first time the irrepressible funnyman took to the stage to try his hand at stand-up, it was in an ill-fitting suit borrowed
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Bernie Mac may be able to push the TV envelope & get away with it.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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; LOS ANGELES _ So here we are on a breezy day on the south side of Sunset Boulevard, the two of us, just standing. Frozen. Like zombies. Looking up. Bernie Mac, Fox's latest pluck from the stand-up comedy ranks, has caught hold of a towering image, and it's done what few things can: Shut him up.
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Bernie Mac; Comedic father-figure of 'Ameri-cah'.(OPED)
The Washington Times
; Byline: Bob Hainey, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES As a baby boomer, I've listened to black comedians use the pain of social commentary as part of their acts for decades. The routines of the late Richard Pryor are legendary, as are the yesteryear performances of Dick Gregory and the late Godfrey
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