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Very like how Rob McElhenney continues to extoll the virtues of his hometown of Philadelphia whereas flying all over the world along with his buddy Ryan Reynolds and working soccer groups in Wales, the late, nice comic Bernard “Bernie Mac” McCullough was one in every of Chicago’s biggest advocates — usually from afar.
Born and raised on Chicago’s South Facet, Mac took his comedy skills throughout the nation with the Authentic Kings of Comedy, alongside his fellow stand-ups Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Cedric the Entertainer, and ultimately settled in Los Angeles to movie 5 seasons of the critically acclaimed sitcom The Bernie Mac Present between 2001 and 2006. Within the sequence, Mac and his on-screen spouse, performed by Kellita Smith, struggled however succeeded to lift Mac’s fictional sister’s three children with a parenting philosophy primarily based on the title star’s stand-up act.
However as one It’s At all times Sunny in Philadelphia fan revealed within the present’s subreddit, Mac’s outdated condo on The Bernie Mac Present, which was briefly proven in an exterior shot, is conveniently located above a sure Philadelphia pub whose bouncer and sheriff could be over the moon to see his institution known as a “church.”
The constructing that’s at the moment finest recognized for being the outside of Paddy’s Pub on It is At all times Sunny in Philadelphia is definitely a transformed manufacturing unit within the Arts District of downtown Los Angeles that many sitcom-makers have used to to convey a dingy, derelict attraction during the last 20-plus years, in response to the above screenshot from The Bernie Mac Present.
The Nate Starkman & Son Constructing, or the “Starkman Constructing,” is so named for a document label that inhabited it within the Nineteen Eighties, and it’s at the moment a far cry from the paint manufacturing unit that the unique construction contained on the flip of the twentieth century — although the fish manufacturing unit briefly introduced again that industrial environment earlier than Dee screwed it up.
There’s one thing candy and melancholic about the concept that one constructing in Los Angeles was in a position to give two TV greats an in-universe home-away-from-home when the real-life stars and creators presumably couldn’t persuade their L.A.-based bosses to provide their extra Center-American cities the highlight for a change. Nonetheless, each Bernie Mac and Mac McDonald managed to make L.A. really feel like dwelling whereas staying true to their religion.
Because the saying goes, by God, all issues are potential, so jot that down.
