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13. All Jokes Aside: Film and Discussion (Nov. 15) - Chris Rock, Steve Harvey, Cedric The Entertainer, Bernie Mac - they all cut their teeth in Chicago, specifically at the now defunct South Loop comedy club All Jokes Aside, which during the...

In this article: Francis W. Parker School, Jeff Garlin, All Jokes Aside, The Second City, Lynda Barry, and Matt Groening

...nominations including two at the Emmys and the Golden Globes. Mac, a Chicago native, also starred in last year's box office hits Ocean's Thirteen and Transformers. A Serb family's new life in multi-ethnic Kosovo village Solzhenitsyn...

In this article: Bernie Mac, Transformers, Ocean's Thirteen, Golden Globes, The Bernie Mac Show, Kosovo, and US

...Movies, Cinema Industry, National or Ethnic Minorities Fans and friends of Chicago comedian Bernie Mac, who died Saturday, are invited to a public memorial celebrating Mac's life. Services are scheduled for noon Saturday in the 10,000-seat...

In this article: Bernie Mac, RSS Feeds, Chicago Tribune, Tribune Company, D.L. Hughley, and Rudy Ray Moore

...in 1977. She survives him, along with a daughter and granddaughter. He lived near Chicago with his family and refused to travel with an entourage or bodyguard. "I'm not a star, and I don't want to be a star," he told Playboy magazine...

In this article: Bernie Mac, Bill Cosby, God, HBO, Spike Lee, Def Comedy Jam, The Original Kings of Comedy, and Bread

..."Bernie Mac just say what you want to say, but can't." "Having a black first lady is different," Mac told the audience at a Chicago fundraiser for Barack Obama last month. "You're still going have to do the dishes and the laundry and...

In this article: Bernie Mac, Barack Obama, All rights reserved, The Bernie Mac Show, Korea, and Associated Press

VIDEO :: MORE » Bernie Mac's riff too crass for Obama Comedian Bernie Mac got a little too cute when he warmed up the crowd at a Barack Obama fund-raiser in Chicago Friday night. "So Barack, you can't get mad, you understand, when you...

In this article: Bernie Mac, Barack Obama, Tax, Lil' Kim, Kanye West, and Korea

He said: "Bernie would wear colors that crayons hadn't even thought of yet." He said he met Mac in Detroit, but that Mac always wanted to talk about Chicago. "All he talked about was his family and this city," Hughley said. "He loved this...

In this article: Bernie Mac, Samuel L. Jackson, D.L. Hughley, Richard Daley, Isaac Hayes, Cedric the Entertainer, South Side, Soul Men, and Northwestern Memorial Hospital

...earlier had been crying-laugh. She died of cancer when he was just 16, but the ambition stuck: while still in community college, the 19-year-old Mac started telling jokes on Chicago's L-train platforms. While logging hours as a furniture...

In this article: Bernie Mac, Stan Lathan, Sarcoidosis, Newsweek, Def Comedy Jam, Cedric the Entertainer, The Bernie Mac Show, New York, and Bread

...struck him with a golf ball during a game. The stand-up comic challenged the Hollywood star to a friendly match while Jackson was filming The Negotiator in Mac's native Chicago, Illinois. After teeing off, Jackson was too impatient to...

In this article: Samuel L. Jackson, Bernie Mac, The Negotiator, Chicago, Illinois, and Hollywood