Saturday, August 09, 2008

Weak End at Bernie's

(Tip o' the cap to Don)

What's the Worst that Could Happen? Yeah, I guess that’s It.
(Props to Monty)

Or
Mac Attack
(Further accolades for Monty)

Or
Ocean’s 10
Barack Obama’s presidential aspirations may have gotten a boost as Bernie Mac, The Original Corpse of Comedy, has died of pneumonia, at the age of 50. Mac’s death comes less than a month after his off-color material at a campaign event drew a rebuke from Obama, who apparently had never seen Mac’s act, and chooses comic relief as carefully as he selects his pastors. Appearing as a cranky store detective on Bad Santa, a jackass baseball player in Mr. 3000, and a father figure more in line with Bing Crosby than Ward Cleaver on The Bernie Mac Show, Mac had established a screen persona as a semi-lovable bastard, much in line with his angry stage presence as a stand-up comedian. Other roles included Frank Catton in Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve and Thirteen, Bosley in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle, the prospective father in law of Ashton Kutcher (whose head really should have been beaten until the white meat showed) in Guess Who, and brother in law of and vice president for Chris Rock in Head of State.

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