Bernie Mac memorial service draws celebrities, thousands of fans
Bernie Mac memorial service draws celebrities, thousands of fans
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CHICAGO _ Thousands of fans of late comedian Bernie Mac streamed into a South
Side memorial service Saturday to hear Hollywood and political celebrities
remember a Chicagoan who made people laugh on both TV and the big
screen.
Mac’s fellow “Original Kings of Comedy” brought the house down as
they broke down in tears, unable to contain their grief. In the same sentence,
Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Harvey and D.L. Hughley would flip a joke, causing
the crowd to scream in laughter.
“This dude is a very popular guy,” Cedric
said of Mac. “You know y’all were like ‘let me get four tickets to the funeral!’
He’s still the hottest ticket in town.”…The Rev. Jesse Jackson told the
audience “Bernie Mac is a serious funnyman” who loved his family and cared about
the tomorrow’s youth. Jackson recalled that Mac recently told students at Crane
High School that they should “live above their circumstances” and not
“self-destruct.”
“Between birth and death is a dash,” Jackson said. “But
between that dash between birth and death, he made a statement.”
Hey Jackson’s comments sounds like something the owner of Market America said years ago.
Mac, a 50-year-old funnyman, died a week ago from complications due to pneumonia
after being hospitalized at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. Mac suffered from
sarcoidosis, a rare autoimmune disease that causes inflammation in tissue, most
often in the lungs….Vera Gordon said she came to pay tribute to the comedian
who made her mother, who suffers from dementia, laugh.
“She watched the
‘Bernie Mac Show’ every night,” Vera Gordon said of her mother, Margaret
Berston, 79. “She would just sit there and laugh. You could see the sadness when
I told her. I came here to represent my mother.”
She said Mac had a gift for
highlighting and shining humor on life’s most simple interactions and
challenges. “He was very special,” she said. “It’s like God sent him here on a
mission. He left something here that will never be forgotten.”
…The family
requests that donations be made at http://www.berniemacfoundation.org/,
which aims at finding a cure for sarcoidosis.
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