Maybe you never cry again - Bernie Mac

The Bernie Mac Show, Fox's phenomenally successful new sitcom, has been making waves in the US press with an estimated 10 million viewers watching Bernie Mac as he shows tough love to the children in his care, offering an often side-splitting look at post-politically correct parenting. The impetus behind the show goes back to Mac's own roots. He grew up in a boisterous home in Chicago with his large extended family, and watched their antics with the cutting and careful eye of a burgeoning comedian. His extraordinary relationship with his mother had a profound effect in shaping the man he would become, as did the heartache of losing many of his close family members at an early age. By turns shocking, heartbreaking, and heart-warming, Mac's autobiography is replete with stories about the major figures in his life who contributed to his laugh-out loud sense of humour, or served as fodder for it, about his provocative views on child-rearing; and about his well deserved ascension to the status of comedy king.