Richard Sher (producer)

{{Short description|Former host of panel show Says You!}}

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| name = Richard Sher

| image = Richard Sher taping Says You (cropped).jpg

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| caption = Sher taping Says You! in 2009

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1948|07|18}}

| birth_place = Easton, Pennsylvania

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2015|02|09|1948|07|18}}

| death_place = Boston, Massachusetts

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| known_for = Creator, Executive Producer, and Host of Says You!

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Richard Sher (July 18, 1948 – February 9, 2015) was the creator, executive producer, and host of the panel show Says You!.

Sher graduated from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and worked as an optician. He then got a master's degree in communications from Boston University. He worked as a producer on Boston TV shows Chronicle and Evening Magazine prior to creating Says You!{{cite news |first=Bryan |last=Marquard |newspaper=The Boston Globe |title=Richard Sher, 66; created and hosted radio quiz show |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/02/10/richard-sher-created-and-hosted-radio-quiz-show-says-you/cxMVjmG0X0kCSiCTg7H6YO/story.html |date=February 11, 2015 |accessdate=February 14, 2015}}