Word: macs
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...Even if you and your partner can both bench press your own weights, a MAC Weight room bench is an unromantic, furthermore, unacceptable place to lock lips...
According to Mac (born Bernard McCullough), the story is loosely based on an incident in his own life. But Mac stresses that the TV Bernie Mac, like the onstage Bernie Mac, is a character. "I'm more reserved," he says. "He's the cat who everybody's got in their family, who they're always trying to shut up. Bernie Mac ain't trying to be politically correct...
...real life, Mac is a family man who brags about his grown daughter's graduate studies in psychology and her upcoming wedding, unironically uses "doggone" as an expletive and still lives in his hometown, Chicago. But after decades in stand-up (he did monologues at church banquets as a kid), he found success when raunchy comic turned sitcom star Redd Foxx encouraged him to make his act more dangerous. "He said, 'Young man, you're funny,'" Mac recalls. "'But your problem is, you don't want to be funny. You want to be liked...
Like Chris Rock's, Mac's R-rated stage act is laced with a conservatism--he wants parents to be parents and kids to be kids--that actually makes him a perfect choice for a family sitcom. And the series' creator, Larry Wilmore (The PJs), has retained Mac's stand-up voice, but fleshed it out with strong supporting characters, especially the kids, who convey their rough history without falling into ghetto stereotypes. In the pilot, Bernie's nephew Jordan (Jeremy Suarez) shows the stress of the move by repeatedly wetting himself. The story line could have just been...
...show also works because, in context, Bernie's outlandish threats--"I'm'a bust your head till the white meat shows"--are as innocuous as Jackie Gleason (another influence of Mac's) yelling, "To the moon, Alice!" Still, Mac acknowledges he will probably take heat for them. He even offers viewers a defense: "When I say I want to kill those kids, you know what I mean...Bernie Mac just say what you want to say but can't." If his show stays this funny and true, we're glad...