RIP: Bernie Mac

Picking up on the Ailing Celebs thread...Bernie Mac has reportedly died...

http://www.suntimes.com/news/1099622,xmac080908.article

Wow, I heard he was hospitalized, but didn't know it was that serious. RIP.

An article that I just read yesterday said that he was responding well to treatment, woke this morning to an article that he died. Guess it got A LOT worse overnight. So sad, he was hilarious!!

I was saddened and shocked to read this. It sounded like he had improved a lot. RIP Bernie

Meh. I was never that impressed.

i wasnt either jugo...in fact i was a bit surprised when they referred to him as the king of comedy when i heard the announcement. ?? i was much more affected when i learned Alexander Solzhenitsyn had died..his books were the first really serious world reality i read as a young woman.

Bernie Mac is HUGE amoung younger people.. most on here are too old for him.. he's more hip, and definitely more urban. Plus he was one of the 4 in the "Original Kings of Comedy" movie, my guess is that's where the title came from.

Personally, I thought he was great, he'd say everything others were thinking but were afraid to say because of PC reasons.

I guess maybe among young, black people. I don't know too many people that really like him, youth included.