Post by billhammond on Apr 2, 2024 16:53:45 GMT -5
AP excerpt:
TORONTO — Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the beloved Canadian sketch series ''SCTV,'' has died. He was 82.
His daughter Gudrun said Tuesday that Flaherty died Monday following a brief illness.
Flaherty, who was born in Pittsburgh, spent seven years at The Second City in Chicago before moving north of the border to help establish the theater's Toronto outpost.
He went on to star alongside John Candy and Catherine O'Hara in "SCTV,″ about a fictional TV station known as Second City Television that was stacked with buffoons in front of and behind the cameras. Flaherty's characters included network boss Guy Caballero and the vampiric TV host Count Floyd.
Former castmates also included Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin.
He won Emmys in 1982 and 1983 for his writing on ''SCTV'' and continued to work in TV and film for decades.
TORONTO — Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the beloved Canadian sketch series ''SCTV,'' has died. He was 82.
His daughter Gudrun said Tuesday that Flaherty died Monday following a brief illness.
Flaherty, who was born in Pittsburgh, spent seven years at The Second City in Chicago before moving north of the border to help establish the theater's Toronto outpost.
He went on to star alongside John Candy and Catherine O'Hara in "SCTV,″ about a fictional TV station known as Second City Television that was stacked with buffoons in front of and behind the cameras. Flaherty's characters included network boss Guy Caballero and the vampiric TV host Count Floyd.
Former castmates also included Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Dave Thomas and Andrea Martin.
He won Emmys in 1982 and 1983 for his writing on ''SCTV'' and continued to work in TV and film for decades.
