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King of kings; Bernie Mac rules the roost.('The Bernie Mac Show')

The New Yorker

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In one of the offstage scenes in "The Original Kings of Comedy," the 2000 concert film directed by Spike Lee that showcases four black standup performers, Bernie Mac is hanging around a basketball court with his fellow-comedians when he says to the camera, as if he had a bone to pick with it, "Do I have a television show? No. . . . 'Cause you scared of me. Scared I'm gonna say something." Then he pulls back from his mockaggressive stance. "White folks, I don't mean it. I'm just playin', " he says plaintively. "If you give me a chance, I'll take WB, I'll take UPN, I'll take USA. Give me a chance to show you." He was acknowledging a couple of realities: that the four major ...

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