This is a major bummer...I knew Bernie Mac was in a Chicago hospital for pneumonia, but reports during the week seemed to indicate that he was improving. CNN is now reporting that he passed away due to complications related to the pneumonia.

The comedian suffered from sarcoidosis, an inflammatory lung disease that produces tiny lumps of cells in the body's organs, but had said the condition went into remission in 2005. He recently was hospitalized and treated for pneumonia, which his publicist said was not related to the disease.

It's too bad, he was really hilarious in pretty much everything I ever saw him in.