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RIP Ken Ober, MTV "Remote Control" host, 52
« on: November 16, 2009, 04:51:07 PM »
Ken Ober, host of MTV's "Remote Control" and recent TV producer, 52
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/16/obit.ober/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn

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Re: RIP Ken Ober, MTV "Remote Control" host, 52
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2009, 06:43:14 PM »
Damn. 52 is too young. 

"Remote Control" is also the show that introduced us to Adam Sandler.
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Re: RIP Ken Ober, MTV "Remote Control" host, 52
« Reply #2 on: November 16, 2009, 08:16:41 PM »

"Remote Control" is also the show that introduced us to Adam Sandler.

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Re: RIP Ken Ober, MTV "Remote Control" host, 52
« Reply #3 on: November 16, 2009, 09:17:06 PM »
Damn. 52 is too young. 

"Remote Control" is also the show that introduced us to Adam Sandler.

And Colin Quinn.

Yikes - I hate reading about deaths of people from my generation.
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Re: RIP Ken Ober, MTV "Remote Control" host, 52
« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2009, 04:15:25 PM »
I loved that show!

and, iirc, wasn't he a one-time Star Search champion in comedy?  I think that's how he knew Sandler & Leary.
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