Mac would star and it would depict him struggling to raise children while at various times breaking the fourth wall and directly addressing the camera in a sort of tell-all confessional. By marrying the two ideas together, the general framework for The Bernie Mac Show was born. At the same time, he had been mulling the idea of spoofing the still young but soon to be omnipresent reality-TV craze. Within this routine, the seeds were planted for The Bernie Mac Show.Īs told to The Champs podcast, series creator Larry Wilmore, himself a TV veteran, had the idea for the show from watching the movie and thought Mac’s story on raising his sister’s children was fascinating.
He then begins to go down a path which in today’s culture might be deemed offensive but in his hands is mined for humor: Children are evil and in need of a heavy hand with discipline, heavy enough to show the white meat. Mac talks of how his sister has recently been arrested and imprisoned for drug use and how he has become the legal guardian of her three children. It’s in this last bit that a new avenue really opened up. So by the time he was introduced in Spike Lee’s film, his confidence and persona was on full display.įrom word one, he owns the crowd, making light of everything from his sex drive to the disappearance of grandmother figures to why he has no problem telling the truth about children. Having risen through the ranks by way of Chicago, Mac made a name for himself during the Def Jam comedy years, as one of the funniest and most unflappable comedians on the tour. “Bust his head til the white meat shows!”īernie Mac was already an up-and-coming comedian when he starred in Spike Lee’s Original Kings of Comedy in 2000.
“America, I tell the truth you can’t say!”
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