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Mac attack: Bernie talks.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
And the last shall be first.
Two years ago, in Spike Lee's concert film, "The Original Kings of Comedy," Bernie Mac asked what now seems like an obvious question: Why was he the only one of the four partners in the phenomenally successful comedy tour not to have a weekly TV gig?
"I've been with my wife 25 years. I ain't got no outside kid ... but do I have a television show? No, I ain't got no television show. Why? Because you scared of me," he said.
"If you give me a chance, I'll take WB (where fellow "kings" Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer had a show), I'll take UPN (currently the home of "king" D.L. Hughley's show, "The Hughleys"), I'll take USA," he implored.
"You'll take the Food Channel," quipped Harvey.
Turns out it didn't come to that.
It's the winter of 2002, and "The Bernie Mac Show," a family comedy that grew out of Mac's stand-up routine, is Fox's most successful new show, averaging 10.2 million viewers a week, and growing. "The Hughleys" is still on UPN, but Harvey and Cedric wrapped up the sixth and final season of "The Steve ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Mac attack: Bernie talks.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)