Ken Ober, comedian, game show host

Comedian Ken Ober, former host of the MTV game show Remote Control, is the object of a rumor that's floating around on social media that says he's dead. Ober was a producer of Tough Crowd, hosted by Colin Quinn and a producer on the hit CBS television series The New Adventures of Old Christine, starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus. He was 52.

Eddie Brill's Facebook profile has the news, with, at last count, 26 comments.

We checked his Wikipedia entry and it doesn't indicate that he's passed. (Some folks are saying that at one point it did say that he was dead, others are reporting that the news was subsequently taken down.)

Other Facebook status reports are saying that he was found dead in his apartment.

Ober is pictured below at the Comedy Factory Outlet in Philadelphia, circa 1983. He is center, with Grover Silcox on the right and Dr. Will Miller on the left. (Photo Credit: Brian McKim)


# posted by Brian McKim & Traci Skene @ 8:18 AM