Comedian Joe Flaherty has died.
FILE - Former cast members of SCTV, from left, Dave Thomas, Joe Flaherty, Catherine O'Hara, Andrea Martin, foreground, Harold Ramis, Eugene Levy and Martin Short, pose at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival on March 6, 1999, in Aspen, Colo. Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series SCTV, died Monday, April 1, 2024 at age 82. – Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series “SCTV,” has died. He was 82.
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.
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