Bernie Mac’s TV family attended his emotional memorial service in Chicago on Saturday. L to R: Dee Dee Davis, Camille Winbush, Jeremy Suarez and Kellita Smith.
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Friends and cast members remember Bernie Mac
Jeremy Suarez who played Mac’s nephew on the Bernie Mac show, paid tribute to the great comedian along with the other cast members, Kellita Smith, Camille Winbush and Dee Dee Davis as well as D.L Hugley and Cedric the Entertainer. Here is an insanely funny clip that will have you rolling on the floor in the first minute… Bernie Mac Live!
R.I.P. Bernie Mac
Bernie Mac one of the baddest comedians around, died at Northwestern Memorial hospital early Saturday morning, according to Sun-Times Columnist, Stella Foster. He was 50.
Though the cause of death has not been confirmed, Mac had been hospitalized recently for pneumonia. Foster said that she received calls early Saturday morning from a close friend of the Mac family, confirming the reports of Mac’s death.
The columnist also said she was deeply saddened to receive such a phone call just an hour after Mac was pronounced dead.
“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.
On Friday, a spokeswoman for the actor, whose real name is, Bernard McCullough, said that he had been responding well to treatment for the illness.
Publicist Danica Smith said Thursday in a statement that Mac’s condition is ”stable.” Smith first announced on August 1st that Mac was hospitalized in Chicago.
Smith said Mac’s pneumonia wasn’t related to an inflammatory lung disease Mac also had. That condition was in remission since 2005.
