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Ken Ober, who hosted MTV's pop-culture-centric game show, Remote Control, for five seasons beginning in 1987, was found dead in his home on Sunday, the network reports. The 52-year-old's cause of death has yet to be determined.

Ober began his career on Star Search but spent recent years behind the scenes, working in production on comedies like The New Adventures of Old Christine and Mind of Mencia.

"Kenny Ober was and always will be the quickest wit in the room," fellow funnyman Denis Leary tells MTV News. "He was fall-down funny from the moment he was born—a smart, fast and hilarious human being who made many of us, including myself, laugh until we cried. As the star and host of Remote Control, he was a welcoming ringmaster who helped to kickstart the careers of numerous talents, including Adam Sandler, Colin Quinn and myself. He will be remembered always by each of his friends not only for his massive talent but for his true, deep and enduring friendship."

"Ken Ober was one of the sharpest, quickest, sweetest guys I ever met," Sandler told the network. "He was always a great friend and I will miss him very much."

Lee Kernis, the star's manager, said that Ober complained to a friend of a headache and flu-like symptoms on Saturday.

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Funny People wasn't a typical Judd Apatow or Adam Sandler movie. But it managed a typical box-office finish for an Apatow movie—and an atypically big debut for an atypical Sandler movie.

The comedy-drama hybrid, which opened Friday, will gross $23.4 million through today, per estimates, enough to top the weekend standings, and put it in the ballpark of Apatow's The 40-Year-Old Virgin.

For Sandler, the take reigned over Reign Over Me, Spanglish and the comic's other un-comic pieces.

The complete Top 10 standings—and a Harry Potter update—still to come…

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A new batch of stars has aligned to light up Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce today unveiled its Class of 2010, the 28 lucky A-listers from film, TV, music and theater whose names will be memorialized on the tourist trap infamous row sometime next year.

The honorees were selected from more than 200 received nominations and have the added distinction of receiving their stars during the Walk of Fame's 50th Anniversary year.

Leading the way in the motion picture category are Adam Sandler, Russell Crowe, John Cusack, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, James Cameron, Mark Wahlberg, and a couple of Disney's go-to composers, Alan Menken and  Randy Newman.

Those being honored for services rendered on the small screen are Jon Cryer, Jimmy Kimmel, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sam Waterston, Bill Maher, sportscaster Chris Berman and O.G. Mission: Impossible star Peter Graves.

The recording roundup includes Van Morrison, Chaka Khan, Alan Jackson, Ringo Starr, ZZ Top, the Funk Brothers, Bryan Adams, Marco Antonio Solis and next year's sole posthumous honoree, Roy Orbison.

Only two acts made the cut for the live performance/theater category: Andrea Bocelli and Cirque Du Soleil's Guy Laliberte.

No dates have yet been scheduled for the ceremonies.

Adam Sandler has made a name for himself often playing adults who act like children. Well, now he's gone and taken it one baby step further.

In a creative effort to get butts into theater seats when the film Funny People opens July 31, a movie-within-a-movie-type clip has just been released. Let us quickly explain.

In Funny People, Sandler plays comic George Simmons, who has made his fair share of less-than-stellar cinema. One example, Re-Do, costarring Justin Long, is about a lawyer whose wish to be young again has gone horribly wrong.

Here's one Sandler, er, Simmons flick where we wouldn't mind seeing a sequel.

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Adam Sandler brushed up on his Bedtime Stories just in time.

The funnyman and his wife Jackie welcomed their second daughter together last week.

"Jackie and Adam had a beautiful baby girl, Sunny Madeline, on November 2. Everyone is happy and healthy," read a statement on Sandler's website.

Sunny joins sister Sadie, 2, in the Sandler brood.

Sandler, 42, and Jackie, 34, tied the knot in 2003. The You Don't Mess With the Zohan star joked about his wife's pregnancy during a Tonight Show appearance earlier this year, telling Jay Leno how he eloquently explained the impending arrival to Sadie.

"'[Mommy] just has something growing in her that's eventually gonna shoot out her vagina and take half your toys,'" Sandler quipped.