Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
BERNIE MACI came up in the community center. I used to be physical director of the South Central Community Center in Chicago on 83rd. It’s still there. It used to be around there when I was a kid.
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The success of my comedy has been not being afraid to touch on subject matters or issues that everyone else is politically scared of.
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I’ve introduced myself with comedy, and once you’ve introduced yourself as something, that’s where people keep you. That’s where people like to hold you.
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The Bernie Mac Show’ is my life. It’s the truth, and I’m not ashamed of a minute, an hour, or a second of my life.
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I’m not ashamed to tell the truth about what happened in my family. I think that’s what makes my comedy different.
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I’m an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you’re going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.
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My comedy comes from pain. I can’t stand to see someone hurting.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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Whatever success I’ve had, I always like to top it.
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The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.
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It’s a pleasure to work with someone who is just as strong as you are.
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I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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Jerry Weintraub, the producer, might be a pain in the ass, but he really knows how to treat his actors.
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Every time you see a black romance it’s over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.
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I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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I’m so black, I leave fingerprints on coal.
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