Brian Damage
08-10-2008, 08:42 PM
Atlanta resident and radio host Steve Harvey worked with Bernie Mac for four years on the groundbreaking, hugely successful “Kings of Comedy” tour. He said the quartet (which also included D.L. Hughley and Cedric the Entertainer) earlier this year talked about a 10-year reunion tour but said Bernie wasn’t up for it, healthwise.
“I am just numb,” Harvey said Saturday afternoon after doing a succession of interviews to CNN and other media while in Chicago. On the tour, “B Mac killed every night. Every night! He would close the show. He was the go to guy.”
His best memory of Bernie on the tour? “At the end, he’d take off his handkerchief, wipe the sweat off his brow, throw it in the audience and open his arms wide open,” Harvey said. “That is the image I’ll always remember.”
He plans to spend his entire syndicated show, which airs mornings in Atlanta at Grown Folks 102.5, sharing memories with listeners about Bernie Mac on Monday. “Right now,” he said, “I’m flying back to Atlanta and I’m going to hug my family,”
http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/radiotalk/entries/2008/08/09/89_bernie_mac_a.html
“I am just numb,” Harvey said Saturday afternoon after doing a succession of interviews to CNN and other media while in Chicago. On the tour, “B Mac killed every night. Every night! He would close the show. He was the go to guy.”
His best memory of Bernie on the tour? “At the end, he’d take off his handkerchief, wipe the sweat off his brow, throw it in the audience and open his arms wide open,” Harvey said. “That is the image I’ll always remember.”
He plans to spend his entire syndicated show, which airs mornings in Atlanta at Grown Folks 102.5, sharing memories with listeners about Bernie Mac on Monday. “Right now,” he said, “I’m flying back to Atlanta and I’m going to hug my family,”
http://www.accessatlanta.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/accessatlanta/radiotalk/entries/2008/08/09/89_bernie_mac_a.html