Posted on 11/16/2009 4:04:45 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
Not only did I work the first season on Remote Control as a question writer, I actually helped hire Ken. He did a great audition. FYI...Ben Stiller auditioned and was horrible.
So sorry to hear this. He was a nice guy.
“but I find it refreshing to see a 35-year-old haunting FR.”
Haunting :-) ... there’s a lot of us on here :-)! I don’t think I could function without this site :-)!
50+ isn’t old fogie either ... My dad just turned 69 and I am trying to convince him that he’s not going to die “soon”.
Knowing myself, I am going to look at that sentence I just wrote, hopefully, in 20 years and wonder what the hell was I thinking :-).
Yep. Its amazing that Ken was at that time one year younger than I am now! It seems like just yesterday that the Berlin Wall was falling, Eddie Murphy was still funny, and cell phones looked like bricks.
Not guilty! I’d still hit it.
Then I’d be a Martha Fu... never mind.
Hunh. An unknown side of you is exposed.
Not bad. I still have “Stuffin’ Martha’s Muffin” by Mojo Nixon on my jogging playlist.
Sounds like Wayne’s World was a ripoff of this show.
It was a lifetime ago. Are you a Seinfeld fan?
I’ve seen a few eps and know some of the memes, but probably not a fan.
Why?
Do you remember the ongoing character, Joe Davola? Crazy Joe Davola?
I’ve seen scenes on YouTube. He’s, well... crazy!
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RIP. That’s too young to go.
I wasn’t a big MTV fan, but I watched this one (OK, maybe because Kari was on it — I was a fan of her later, ahem, “late night movie” work — she was on General Hospital a few years ago and you could tell her, um, “athletic” prowess during the love scenes. I think even the male actors had to tell her to take it down a notch, since it ain’t Showtime).
I remember when this show was on MTV during my early teen years. That was back when they actually had music. This show was one of the few things that wasn’t music. I always changed the channel or turned off the TV when it came on. lol
Mr. Ober, who lived in Santa Monica, Calif., was 52. The cause of death was not immediately known.
Lee Kernis, a manager at Brillstein Entertainment Partners who represented Mr. Ober for more than 20 years, said that Mr. Ober was found dead on Sunday. He said that Mr. Ober was last heard from on Saturday night, when he spoke to a friend and complained of a headache and flu-like symptoms. Mr. Ober told the friend that he was going to take something and would see a doctor as soon as possible.
Joe Davola was the Producer of Remote Control and he was freaking nuts. he was sexually harrassing me. So when the whole thing went down with Anita Hill, I knew she was lying. When you’re truly being sexually harrassed in the workplace, you don’t want to be anywhere near that person. He became the head of comedy development at one of the networks and that’s how Seinfeld met him. That character was based on him. Crazy Joe Davola.
At the time, I was dating a guy and I would complain about Davola to him. He finally said, what do you want me to do, beat him up? I knew I had to take care of it. I was probably about 28 years old. The last time he harrassed me I whipped around and I said, “I don’t appreciate these comments you continually say to me and I want you to stop...you will stop.”
That was that, he never bothered me again...but then again...I wasn’t invited back for the next season. No big loss.
I worked on the first season...wrote questions. Originally, that show was supposed to be a sitcom...a game show within a sitcom. The plot was this loser who is obsessed with game shows who lives in his mom’s basement. It was really very clever..but when push came to shove, the suits went with the safe choice. Too bad...it would have been an instant classic.
Wow. (A) Yikes, sorry for what happened to you. Creep. Got himself a Hildy-slapdown. (B) They used an actual guy’s name for an insane character, and didn’t get sued?
LOL! I was talking about Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper just yesterday!
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