[Deathwatch] Ken Ober, game show host / producer, 52

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MTV 'Remote Control' host Ken Ober dies
November 16, 2009 6:34 p.m. EST

Los Angeles, California (CNN)  -- Ken Ober, whose MTV game show "Remote
Control" was among the network's first forays into non-music
programming, has died at age 52, his agent said Monday.

Ober hosted five seasons of "Remote Control," a pop-culture quiz show
that featured contestants strapped into easy chairs to answer questions
from categories such as "Dead or Canadian?" The show first aired in
1987 and helped launch the careers of comedians Adam Sandler, Denis
Leary and Colin Quinn, who was the program's announcer.

Ober later moved behind the camera as a producer of the Comedy Central
program "Mind of Mencia" and the CBS comedy "The New Adventures of Old
Christine."

Ober's agent, Mark Measures, said Ober was found dead at his home in
Los Angeles. No cause of death was immediately known.

Many thanks to TheLenGuy for posting this obituary