Joe Flaherty, RIP

[beefheart]

Sad to hear that we lost a very funny guy. Joe Flaherty was a regular on SCTV, was amazing as the dad in Freaks and Geeks, and was all over the movies in Stripes, 1941, Back to The Future II, as well as being well known for Second City and National Lampoon.

Joe Flaherty, Original ‘SCTV’ Castmember, Dies at 82

He drew laughs as Guy Caballero, Count Floyd, Big Jim McBob and others on the famed sketch comedy show after Second City stints in Chicago and Toronto.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

Joe Flaherty, the two-time Emmy-winning writer and Second City alumnus who sparkled as Guy Caballero, Count Floyd, Big Jim McBob and Sammy Maudlin as an original castmember on the landmark Canadian sketch comedy series SCTV, has died. He was 82.


His daughter, Gudrun Flaherty, told the Canadian Press he died Monday after a brief illness.


A native of Pittsburgh, Flaherty also was known for his stint as A-1 Sporting Goods owner Harold Weir (the father of Linda Cardellini and John Francis Daley’s characters) on the 1999-2000 NBC series Freaks and Geeks and for his turn as a Western Union man in Back to the Future Part II (1989).

 

[beefheart]

 

[PoS]

SCTV was awesome, and Joe was a big part of it. RIP.

 

[venice_ca]

Oh no!

I’ve gone long, long stretches without access to a TV, but I did have the good fortune to see Joe Flaherty on SCTV.

Adios, Guy Caballero. You will be missed.

Condolences to his family.

 

[Old 'N Chill]

Rest in peace Joe.

 

[Bok Tuklo]

Oh no!

I’ve gone long, long stretches without access to a TV, but I did have the good fortune to see Joe Flaherty on SCTV.

Adios, Guy Caballero. You will be missed.

Condolences to his family.

Tip O’Neill’s 3-D House of Representatives

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Made me laugh numerous times.
Pretty cool thing when your job made millions of people laugh and enjoy themselves.

RIP

 

[beefheart]

Oh no!

I’ve gone long, long stretches without access to a TV, but I did have the good fortune to see Joe Flaherty on SCTV.

Adios, Guy Caballero. You will be missed.

Condolences to his family.

I loved Sammy Maudlin, Vic Arpeggio, Count Floyd/Floyd Robertson, et al.

Talented guy.