The Chicago Tribune has reported comedian Bernie Mac succumbed to complications with pneumonia at the age of 50 early this morning as confirmed by his publicist. Mac had been hospitalized earlier this week at Northwestern Hospital due to the illness.
The Chicago native born Bernard Jeffrey McCullough was one of the premier comedians rising from Chi-Town's chitlin' circuit to making appearances on the old Def Comedy Jam, BET's Comic View, Spike Lee's The Kings of Comedy, Oceans' 11, 12 & 13 along with his own sitcom, The Bernie Mac Show, a satirical look at his home life which consisted of his wife and his drug addicted sister's three kids whom Mac took in, cared for and often used as the back drop for his comedic routines.
R.I.P.
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