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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.

Bernie Mac

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.
BERNIE MAC

Hours Minutes
I had to do clubs where street gangs were, had to do motorcycle gangs, gay balls and things of that nature.
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Gangs Motorcycycle Nature Things
Sometimes when you lose you win, son. Failure is just life’s way of preparing you for success.
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Son Success Way Winning
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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Beer Boat Golf Ice Lobster
I came from a place where there wasn’t a lot of joy.
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Joy Lot Place
You know you poor when you eatin’ breakfast food late. You fryin’ toast? At nine o’clock at night? With bacon? You’re broke.
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Breakfast Food Night Nine
I’ve been in training for stardom.
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Stardom Success Training
I love who I am. I love what I’ve become.
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Become Create Love
I’ve never been no superficial cat.
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Been Cat No Superficial
I have so much respect for what’s funny.
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Funny Mush Respect
I think a lot of TV insults the audience.
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Insult Television Thinking
When I hit my 20s, I struggled to make it. I got married at 19, and my daughter, Je’Niece, was born a year later. I worked blue collar jobs during the day and comedy clubs at night, and I was earning about $25 a year doing stand-up.
BERNIE MAC

Daughter Jobs Later Married Mother
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.
BERNIE MAC

General Hate Mean Something Sports
I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.’
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Directly Frustrated Manual Mistake Selfish
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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Comedy Issue Matter Politically
Fear is not one of my attributes.
BERNIE MAC

Attributes Fear One

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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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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