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Comedian Bernie Mac has passed away at tha age of 50 at Northwestern Memorial Hospital on early Saturday morning. He passed due to pneumonia. That is tha only details that have been released so far in repsect to tha family. Early Thursday it was said Mac was ’stable’ and Friday a spokeswoman for Bernie said he was responding well to treatment, but it seems it took a turn for tha worst. Before he passed their was reports all over tha internet that he had already died, which were wrong. Bernie had his own TV show on FOX “The Bernie Mac Show.” He started thru his show “Midnight Mac” that aired for only four shos on HBO and was filmed in his home town Chicago back in 1995. Bernie began his career at tha age of 8. He did some standup performance at a church dinner. And at tha age of 20, in 1977, he began to go to comedy clubs in Chicago. Mac’s film career began with a small role as a club doorman in Damon Wayans movie; “Mo’ Money” back in 92. He also was in tha “Ocean’s Eleven” franchise along side Brad Pitt & George Clooney. He was also in “Guess Who?” with Ashton Kutcher in 2005. Bernie was also in “Bad Santa,” “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” and “Transformers.” “The Bernie Mac Show” aired more than 100 episodes from 2001 to 2006 and got very popular reivews. Tha show was about him raising his sisters 3 kids. Back in 2002 it won a Peabody Award. While on tha ‘Late Show’ Mac told David Letterman tha he planned on retiring soon, that was in 2007. “I’m going to still do my producing, my films, but I want to enjoy my life a little bit,” said Mac “I missed a lot of things, you know. I was a street performer for two years. I went into clubs in 1977.” Bernie was born Bernard Jeffery McCullough on October 5, 1957 in Chicago. He grew up on tha South Side. He lived with his mother and grandparents. His grandfather was tha deacon of a Baptist church. He says he was raised in a poor upbringing, eating things like bologna for dinner. And says it was very strict. Mac’s mother passed due to cancer when he was 16. Bernie said she was a big support for him and always told him that he would shock everybody when he grew up. Sounds like a good relationship. He said; “She believed in me long before I believed.” So Rest In Peace to one of tha funnies comedians and what seems like a great guy. And my thoughts are with tha family, I know what its like to loose someone very close to you..

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