Joe Flaherty, who died Monday, may not have achieved the same stardom as some of his 'SCTV' castmates, but he leaves a substantial legacy of key roles on TV and film.
Though he worked steadily into the second decade of this century, Joe Flaherty, who died Monday at 82, will be remembered for two series: the Canadian sketch comedy 'SCTV,' which sneaked onto American television by way of late-night syndication in the late 1970s, and 'Freaks and Geeks,' the 1999 CBS comedy that would prove to be ground zero for American comedy in the 2000s.
' Floyd, whom one associates with the phrase 'Oooh, scary, kids!,' though I can't actually find an example of him saying those words in that order, had a life beyond 'SCTV' as well: 'Count Floyd's Scary Stories' was a live-action segment of 'SCTV' castmate Martin Short's 1988 animated series, 'The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley,' while Canada's Rush featured him on video introducing 'The Weapon' on their 1984...
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