R.I.P. Bernie Mac

[The Smackethdown]

Comedian and Chicago native Bernie Mac died early Saturday morning from complications due to pneumonia, his publicist confirmed.

Mac, 50, had been hospitalized for about a week at Northwestern Hospital, according to his spokeswoman. A few years ago, Mac disclosed that he suffered from sarcoidosis, a rare autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in tissue, most often in the lungs.

The comic born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough could cut an imposing figure. He stood 6-foot-3, was built like a fullback and carried himself with a bouncer's reticence. But perhaps the strongest weapon in the Chicago comedian's arsenal was that voice, that amalgam of thought and a delivery that could rise like a tidal wave, outpace a Gatling gun and remained, to his last days, loud and unapologetic.

He wasn't scared, he told us time and again, to tell anyone what he thought, to say what others were afraid to say. That fearlessness wasn't always welcome, considering Mac didn't get his big break until his 30s. But when he did, the comic skyrocketed to success in stand-up, television and the big screen.

-Chicago Tribune

Sucks bigtime,R.I.P.

[bigpoppn]

I like the guy, it's a shame.

[Thom]

That's a real shame, and a big shock.

[Subrick]

Sucks. R.I.P.

[The Don]

Damn shame, he was always someone I could watch and get a good laugh from. R.I.P.

[phil]

First Carlin and now Bernie. This is a really sad development and it's truly a shame to see him go. R.I.P. Bernie Mac.

[takersfan]

Damn dude wtf this sucks R.I.P.

[jitz]

The only important question this raises is, who's gonna play Bobby Bolivia in Transformers 2?

[Spectre]

Wow i thought Morgon Freeman was going to die of his injuries in that car accident, but instead Mac dies.

RiP

[RingMaster2001]

Bernie Mac died of injuries from Morgan Freeman's car crash?

[(...:~Do-You-Remember~:..)]

And sadly, Isaac Hayes followed suit.

This was one fucked up weekend.

[Spectre]

Bernie Mac died of injuries from Morgan Freeman's car crash?

k so my reply doesnt make sense, but what i was trying to say is that i didnt know Mac was sick, and Freeman was just in a crash, so i thought he would die(not trying to be sick), and then Mac unexpectedly died. See?

[Aero]

ffs, simply because freeman was a cast member of TDK and its "curse" they blew the crash well out of proportion, yes he had to be cut out of the car, but he came out with a few bruises and a fracture, they only operated on him because he's a wealthy man so he paid to get his arm worked on to heal faster.

[RingMaster2001]

Looking at this cast list if I was Samuel L Jackson, I'd be sweating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Men_(film)

[The Smackethdown]

oh shit,that's such a coincidence.