Trevor Moore, American comedian, actor and co-founder of the sketch comedy group ‘The Whitest Kids U Know’, died on Friday in an accident at the age of 41, according to US media reports. His manager on behalf of his wife Aimee Carlson and his family issued a statement confirming his demise.

“We are devastated by the loss of my husband, best friend and the father of our son. He was known as a writer and comedian to millions, and yet to us he was simply the center of our whole world. We don’t know how we’ll go on without him, but we’re thankful for the memories we do have that will stay with us forever,” the statement read. 

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Furthermore, his family thanked everyone for the “outpouring of love and support” and asked people to respect their privacy at this time.

However, in the statement, there are no details about the cause of the death.

Moore started out his journey in sketch comedy as a founding member and leader of the sketch comedy group  ‘The Whitest Kids U Know’. He wrote and directed on the Disney XD series, Walk the Prank, a series about four kids who pull off real pranks on unsuspecting people.

He was most recently the co-creator and executive producer of Disney’s Just Roll With It, a comedy in which the performers let the audience select what occurs in various scenarios, and the creator and host of Comedy Central’s The Trevor Moore Show.

Moore’s incline towards comedy was quite evident from a very young age as he became the world’s youngest published cartoonist with his book ‘Scraps’ at 12.

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Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Moore at 16, had already started writing weekly cartoons for several newspapers in his home state of Virginia.

Soon he signed a deal with a production company to write and produce The Trevor Moore Show, a weekly sketch comedy program for his local TV station and their affiliates.

Moore, along with Zach Cregger, Sam Brown, Timmy Williams, and Darren Trumeter, was a founding member of The Whitest Kids U Know comedy troupe.

After his death, Moore is survived by his wife Aimee Carlson, a SVP at Fuzzy Door, his son August, and a host of extended family and friends.