I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.
BERNIE MACI learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father – who I had only recently met – died.
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I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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Hugs aren’t like pieces of pie. Plenty of hugs to go around.
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Whatever you hear at the barber shop, stays at the barber shop.
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I was born October 5, 1957, on the South Side of Chicago, in the Woodlawn area, a neighborhood that hasn’t changed much in forty-five years. Our house was on 66th and Blackstone, but the city tore it down when the rats took over.
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Black audiences are hard. They always think they’re better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
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You have to meet all of the challenges, big and small. Because how you start is how you finish.
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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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When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars – that’s heaven here on earth.
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I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.
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I was a street performer for two years.
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I’m not a star, I hate that word, and I’m an entertainer. Stars fall, you know, I’m an entertainer. I want to be known as an entertainer.
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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that – a stern enforcer.
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My humor had changed from foolishness to making sense.
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I became the storyteller of South Side Chicago. I used an old Kiwi liquid shoe polish as a microphone. I’d go around the house interviewing everybody, telling stupid jokes, doing voices. I mimicked Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., people on ‘Laugh-In,’ Flip Wilson.
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