RIP Bob Barker

[Autbot_Benz]

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Bob Barker, the former longtime host of the popular TV game show "The Price Is Right" and an animal-rights activist, died Saturday morning. He was 99.

Details of his passing and the cause of death were not immediately available.

Barker was a winner of 19 Daytime Emmy Awards. Also received an Emmy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1999 and was inducted into the Television Academy's Hall of Fame in 2004.


Barker contributed $5 million to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, a marine wildlife and environmental protection group, to help end international whaling. The society named a ship in their fleet the "Bob Barker."

Has donated $3.1 million to his alma mater Drury University.

DEVELOPING: More details will be added to this report as they become available.

https://abc7.com/bob-barker-obituary-price-is-right-game-show-host/13704249/

[CyberCubed]

Pretty much every famous person from the 80's and 90's era are dropping like flies. By the next 10 years almost all of them will be gone.

[KROW]

I just heard about this a few minutes ago. I'd like to think that anyone who has lived that long and made a positive impact on people has won at life -- a life to be celebrated. He seemed a decent fellow; polite, professional, gracious, and funny. From his interactions with contestants and advocacy for controlling the pet population, he always appeared to be a stand-up guy.

Thank you, Bob, for keeping me entertained when I had chicken pox and other sick days.

[IndigoErth]

Me: "Noo... But what was he, like 105?"

At least I was close? Shame he didn't make it to 100.

[Wednesday's Serial]

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[IMJ]

God bless this guy and his 99 long and good years on Earth. 99.... that is awesome.

[triplexxx]

Bob Barker: thank you for making an immeasurable difference in my life. You were my favorite game show host of all time, and to many the best in game show history. The entertainment, joy, and happiness you brought to the world I will always treasure. You lived a full, wonderful, exciting life and made so many people and animals happy. I'm happy to have enjoyed your show The Price Is Right all my life, also got to come to it in person last month, and I will continue enjoying it. I'm glad you appreciated the Facebook message I sent you back in 2014, complimenting your life's accomplishments and the difference you made in my life and others. You will always be a treasured icon in this world. You were like a grandfather to me, as I mentioned to you in the Facebook message, and now you are up there in heaven with my grandfather, and I will look forward to seeing you when my time comes.

[IndigoErth]

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Hah! The perfect send off. Needs to be on his stone.

[Dpooly84]

Bob Baker profited off inmates by overcharging the states for horrible soap and shampoo made from the fat of pets put to death in animal shelters, he's not that great.
https://www.bobbarker.com/

[IMJ]

Bob Baker profited off inmates by overcharging the states for horrible soap and shampoo made from the fat of pets put to death in animal shelters, he's not that great.
https://www.bobbarker.com/

Well.... that's profiting off the state and on that note it's the state who enters into those contacts, soooo....

[Dpooly84]

Soooo, it's the state profiting of the inmates through Bob Barker industries? That's so much better.... the price is wrong Bob.

[Autbot_Benz]

Bob Baker profited off inmates by overcharging the states for horrible soap and shampoo made from the fat of pets put to death in animal shelters, he's not that great.
https://www.bobbarker.com/

That website has nothing to do with the game show host Bob Barker. Its a different Bob Barker that owns that website/company

Owner of that website/company

https://i.imgur.com/jXTSuOu.png

[triplexxx]

Hah! The perfect send off. Needs to be on his stone.Don't think there's enough room on his stone for it, it's a joint stone with his late wife Dorothy reserved long ago, and he's foregoing a funeral and memorial service, but there's plenty of places online people are leaving their own memorials like this for Bob, I'm sure that's good enough for him.

[Dpooly84]

That website has nothing to do with the game show host Bob Barker. Its a different Bob Barker that owns that website/company

Owner of that website/company

https://i.imgur.com/jXTSuOu.png

If so I owe this guy 20 years of apologizes lol I just looked at all our ****(when I was incarcerated) that had Bob Baker industries stamped all over it and assumed, I guess you know what they say when you assume.

I totally stand corrected, my apologies. It was prison lore.*

[TheCanadiandrome]

Pretty much every famous person from the 80's and 90's era are dropping like flies. By the next 10 years almost all of them will be gone.

may be a lot sooner than 10 years bro at the rate they seem to be droppin

[Storm Wolf]

Pretty much every famous person from the 80's and 90's era are dropping like flies. By the next 10 years almost all of them will be gone.

I guess even the more wealthy folks haven't "found" the fountain of youth yet.

Imagine all the stuff you've lived through and experienced in 80+ years of life! Living through some of our arguably best decades.

[triplexxx]

As per Bob's wishes, his estate is going to 40 different charitable organizations supporting animal rights and military foundations, the ones named thus far:
-United Activists for Animal Rights
-DonkeyLand Rescue
-Sea Shepherd Conservation Society