Bernie Mac: A Celebration

I think Bernie Mac was the funniest man on the planet. I loved both his irreverence and sensibilites. He made fun of everything and everybody - including himself - he was hilarious.

When I heard he died today I had a decision to make. At first, I was going to write in the subject line of this blog In Mourning. But I changed my mind. What good what that do? How would that help me run my day and relate to my children and tolerate the day to day nonsense that tends to irritate most of us way too much?

Instead I am going to celebrate what he gave me. I am going to watch The Original Kings of Comedy for the 50th time today and I am going to roll all over the floor. He was funny. He took the negative, the stereotypical and the sensitive and made it the subject of humor. What a wonderful gift to have. Can you imagine how much happier we would all be if we could do that? Instead of getting injured and upset by others oddities and annoying opinions we get amused?

That leads me to this. I wasn't going to say anything about it but since he died today I said to myself what the heck. I felt bad that he got heckled when he did the Obama thing. (Of course, I am sure he probably couldn't have cared less - I'm trying to become more like him in that respect). So he said some off color things. That's who he is. That's what he does. A comedian can make jokes about sex women and menopause in front of me all they want if they are funny. I either am, have been involved with, or suffered through all three. I think we are too sensitive these days. We're all running around getting offended and feeling victimized by a comedian doing his job. He's not mean spirited he's just irreverent. In The Original Kings of Comedy he spent a whole 5 minutes talking about how bad he was in bed. By the way, I don't mind ho jokes either because I'm not one.

Let's lighten up. Let's take things as intended. let's not politically correct our way into being bland and ridiculous. Things can always get worse and at some point they usually do. Let's laugh when we can.

Rest in Peace, Bernie. You did right by this world.