{"id":911,"date":"2008-08-09T15:05:24","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T19:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=911"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:58:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:58:02","slug":"breaking-news-an-original-king-of-comedy-has-passed-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/09\/breaking-news-an-original-king-of-comedy-has-passed-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: ORIGINAL KING OF COMEDY Bernie Mac Has Passed Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Mac, the actor and comedian who starred in the Golden Globe nominated series <em>The Bernie Mac Show<\/em> and appeared in the successful <strong>Ocean&#8217;s 11<\/strong> films, passed away earlier this morning in Chicago at age 50.<\/p>\n<p>Mac\u2019s movie career was launched with an appearance in 1992\u2019s <strong>Mo&#8217; Money<\/strong>, and continued with humorous roles in <strong>Above The Rim<\/strong> (1994), <strong>Friday<\/strong> (1995) and <strong>Booty Call<\/strong> (1997).<\/p>\n<p>One of &#8220;The Original Kings of Comedy&#8221; seen in the eponymous 2000 concert film, Mac worked with Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and successfully brought a new generation of black standup comedy stars to a wider audience. His comedic genius could later be found on the critically acclaimed, Golden Globe and Emmy nominated comedy series <em>The Bernie Mac Show<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Box-office success came to Mac with his role in the 2005 film <strong>Guess Who?<\/strong>, a comedic remake of the landmark Tracy-Hepburn vehicle <strong>Guess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner<\/strong>. Mac also enjoyed starring roles in the audience favorites <strong>Bad Santa<\/strong> (2004), <strong>Charlie\u2019s Angels: Full Throttle<\/strong> (2005) and <strong>Transformers<\/strong> (2007). He later played a major role as Frank Catton in the martini-mad <strong>Ocean\u2019s 11<\/strong> franchise with George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Two of his films are currently listed as post-production: <strong>Soul Men<\/strong> (with Samuel L. Jackson) and <strong>Old Dogs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Bernie Mac, the actor and comedian who starred in the Golden Globe nominated series The Bernie Mac Show and appeared in the successful Ocean&#8217;s 11 films, passed away earlier this morning in Chicago at age <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/08\/09\/breaking-news-an-original-king-of-comedy-has-passed-away\/\" title=\"Breaking News: ORIGINAL KING OF COMEDY Bernie Mac Has Passed Away\">[click for more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84,133],"tags":[7863,223],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"category-obituary-news","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-obituaries"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,3],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}