Joe Flaherty, the two-time Emmy-winning author and Second Metropolis alumnus who sparkled as Man Caballero, Depend Floyd, Massive Jim McBob and Sammy Maudlin as an unique castmember on the landmark Canadian sketch comedy sequence SCTV, has died. He was 82.
His daughter, Gudrun Flaherty, advised the Canadian Press he died Monday after a quick sickness.
A local of Pittsburgh, Flaherty additionally was identified for his stint as A-1 Sporting Items proprietor Harold Weir (the daddy of Linda Cardellini and John Francis Daley’s characters) on the 1999-2000 NBC sequence Freaks and Geeks and for his flip as a Western Union man in Again to the Future Half II (1989).
And on the 1990-93 Canadian-American sitcom Maniac Mansion, created by SCTV teammate Eugene Levy, he performed the scientist dad Fred Edison whereas writing and directing for the present as effectively.
A grasp of sketch and improv comedy, Flaherty received his begin with the Second Metropolis comedy troupe at its Chicago flagship earlier than transferring to Toronto in 1973 to assist open a brand new outpost in Canada.
From there, he segued to SCTV, which debuted on the International community in Canada in 1976 and featured different unique gamers Levy, Catherine O’Hara, John Sweet, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas and Harold Ramis.
Flaherty thrived on all six seasons of the present by 1984, taking part in such characters as Caballero, the shady, shameless proprietor of the fictional SCTV station; Floyd Robertson, the intense anchor of the Melonville Nightly Information, and Depend Floyd, the vampiric host of Monster Chiller Horror Theatre; the flashy talk-show host Maudlin; and McBob, the Farm Report host and film reviewer who, with Sweet’s Billy Sol Hurok, made celebrities “blow up actual good.”
In the meantime, Flaherty shared 9 Emmy nominations for excellent writing in a spread or music program on SCTV, successful in 1982 and ’83.
“We didn’t have a producer, no one advised us what to jot down, who to enchantment to, we simply wrote for ourselves,” he stated in a 1999 interview with the Pittsburgh Put up-Gazette. “We have been the inmates working the asylum. We created our personal little world and it paid off. … I want we may do it once more.”
The son of a manufacturing clerk at Westinghouse Electrical, Flaherty was born on June 21, 1941, and raised within the Homewood part of Pittsburgh. As an adolescent, he studied performing on the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
“I undoubtedly consider myself as extra of an actor than a comic book — my coaching was in drama, I solely fell into comedy by accident,” he advised the Globe and Mail in 2002. “And I believe persons are stunned after they meet me, as a result of they anticipate me to be entertaining and humorous, like a stand-up. I’m simply not that manner.”
Flaherty left Westinghouse Excessive Faculty to spend 4 years within the U.S. Air Pressure, attended Level Park School for a yr and labored as a draftsman earlier than transferring to Chicago to take a job as a stage supervisor for Second Metropolis in 1969.
Within the wings, “I watched it and simply liked it,” he advised Jen Sweet (John Sweet’s daughter) on a 2020 installment of her Sofa Sweet present. “Little sketches, humorous bits, satiric bits, after which afterward they’d improvise. I assumed, ‘Wow, that is nice. I’ve received to be part of this.’ “
Flaherty was promoted to author and performer and labored alongside the likes of Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and John Belushi. 4 years later, he, Doyle-Murray and others headed to Toronto to arrange store there, and he had a hand in hiring Sweet, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd and others.
Flaherty additionally did the Nationwide Lampoon Radio Hour in 1973-74 with Belushi, Radner, Invoice Murray and Chevy Chase and spent a yr in Los Angeles serving to to open a Second Metropolis in Pasadena earlier than returning to Toronto.
The success of NBC’s Saturday Night time Dwell, which had bowed in October 1975, made satire a sizzling commodity and helped SCTV get a inexperienced mild.
“Politically, it was charged. Saturday Night time Dwell simply took off. It helped us. The producers at Second Metropolis determined to begin up a TV present. They needed to maintain the actors comfortable and provides us an opportunity to do extra,” Flaherty stated in 2004.
Whereas he was engaged on the primary season of SCTV, he did double obligation on one other Canadian TV program, The David Steinberg Present.
On SCTV, Flaherty did impressions of Bing Crosby, Alan Alda, Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck, Peter O’Toole and others. And when Depend Floyd wasn’t teasing such Monster Chiller Horror Theatre flicks as Dr. Tongue’s 3-D Home of Slave Chicks and Blood-Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin Pennsylvania, he was being thanked on Alice Cooper’s Particular Forces album and introducing Rush’s “The Weapon” on the Canadian band’s 1984 Grace Beneath Strain tour.
Flaherty and different SCTV performers reunited in 2008 for the primary time in 24 years at Second Metropolis Toronto for a charitable fund-raiser, then received collectively a decade later on the Elgin Theater for An Afternoon With SCTV, a reside occasion hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
He famously heckled Adam Sandler‘s character in Completely satisfied Gilmore (1996), had recurring roles on Police Academy: The Sequence and The King of Queens and taught comedy writing at Humber School in Toronto.
He additionally appeared on the large display screen in Tunnel Imaginative and prescient (1976), 1941 (1979), Used Automobiles (1980), Stripes (1981), Heavy Metallic (1981), Going Berserk (1983), Comply with That Chook (1985), One Loopy Summer season (1986), Innerspace (1987), Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989), Stuart Saves His Household (1995), Detroit Rock Metropolis (1999) and Freddy Acquired Fingered (2001).
Survivors embody his youthful brother, Paul Flaherty, who wrote for SCTV and different reveals like Muppets Tonight, and his kids, Gabriel and Gudrun. He was married to Judith Flaherty for 20 years till their 1996 divorce.
Mike Barnes contributed to this report.
Joe Flaherty, the two-time Emmy-winning author and Second Metropolis alumnus who sparkled as Man Caballero, Depend Floyd, Massive Jim McBob and Sammy Maudlin as an unique castmember on the landmark Canadian sketch comedy sequence SCTV, has died. He was 82.
His daughter, Gudrun Flaherty, advised the Canadian Press he died Monday after a quick sickness.
A local of Pittsburgh, Flaherty additionally was identified for his stint as A-1 Sporting Items proprietor Harold Weir (the daddy of Linda Cardellini and John Francis Daley’s characters) on the 1999-2000 NBC sequence Freaks and Geeks and for his flip as a Western Union man in Again to the Future Half II (1989).
And on the 1990-93 Canadian-American sitcom Maniac Mansion, created by SCTV teammate Eugene Levy, he performed the scientist dad Fred Edison whereas writing and directing for the present as effectively.
A grasp of sketch and improv comedy, Flaherty received his begin with the Second Metropolis comedy troupe at its Chicago flagship earlier than transferring to Toronto in 1973 to assist open a brand new outpost in Canada.
From there, he segued to SCTV, which debuted on the International community in Canada in 1976 and featured different unique gamers Levy, Catherine O’Hara, John Sweet, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas and Harold Ramis.
Flaherty thrived on all six seasons of the present by 1984, taking part in such characters as Caballero, the shady, shameless proprietor of the fictional SCTV station; Floyd Robertson, the intense anchor of the Melonville Nightly Information, and Depend Floyd, the vampiric host of Monster Chiller Horror Theatre; the flashy talk-show host Maudlin; and McBob, the Farm Report host and film reviewer who, with Sweet’s Billy Sol Hurok, made celebrities “blow up actual good.”
In the meantime, Flaherty shared 9 Emmy nominations for excellent writing in a spread or music program on SCTV, successful in 1982 and ’83.
“We didn’t have a producer, no one advised us what to jot down, who to enchantment to, we simply wrote for ourselves,” he stated in a 1999 interview with the Pittsburgh Put up-Gazette. “We have been the inmates working the asylum. We created our personal little world and it paid off. … I want we may do it once more.”
The son of a manufacturing clerk at Westinghouse Electrical, Flaherty was born on June 21, 1941, and raised within the Homewood part of Pittsburgh. As an adolescent, he studied performing on the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
“I undoubtedly consider myself as extra of an actor than a comic book — my coaching was in drama, I solely fell into comedy by accident,” he advised the Globe and Mail in 2002. “And I believe persons are stunned after they meet me, as a result of they anticipate me to be entertaining and humorous, like a stand-up. I’m simply not that manner.”
Flaherty left Westinghouse Excessive Faculty to spend 4 years within the U.S. Air Pressure, attended Level Park School for a yr and labored as a draftsman earlier than transferring to Chicago to take a job as a stage supervisor for Second Metropolis in 1969.
Within the wings, “I watched it and simply liked it,” he advised Jen Sweet (John Sweet’s daughter) on a 2020 installment of her Sofa Sweet present. “Little sketches, humorous bits, satiric bits, after which afterward they’d improvise. I assumed, ‘Wow, that is nice. I’ve received to be part of this.’ “
Flaherty was promoted to author and performer and labored alongside the likes of Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and John Belushi. 4 years later, he, Doyle-Murray and others headed to Toronto to arrange store there, and he had a hand in hiring Sweet, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd and others.
Flaherty additionally did the Nationwide Lampoon Radio Hour in 1973-74 with Belushi, Radner, Invoice Murray and Chevy Chase and spent a yr in Los Angeles serving to to open a Second Metropolis in Pasadena earlier than returning to Toronto.
The success of NBC’s Saturday Night time Dwell, which had bowed in October 1975, made satire a sizzling commodity and helped SCTV get a inexperienced mild.
“Politically, it was charged. Saturday Night time Dwell simply took off. It helped us. The producers at Second Metropolis determined to begin up a TV present. They needed to maintain the actors comfortable and provides us an opportunity to do extra,” Flaherty stated in 2004.
Whereas he was engaged on the primary season of SCTV, he did double obligation on one other Canadian TV program, The David Steinberg Present.
On SCTV, Flaherty did impressions of Bing Crosby, Alan Alda, Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck, Peter O’Toole and others. And when Depend Floyd wasn’t teasing such Monster Chiller Horror Theatre flicks as Dr. Tongue’s 3-D Home of Slave Chicks and Blood-Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin Pennsylvania, he was being thanked on Alice Cooper’s Particular Forces album and introducing Rush’s “The Weapon” on the Canadian band’s 1984 Grace Beneath Strain tour.
Flaherty and different SCTV performers reunited in 2008 for the primary time in 24 years at Second Metropolis Toronto for a charitable fund-raiser, then received collectively a decade later on the Elgin Theater for An Afternoon With SCTV, a reside occasion hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
He famously heckled Adam Sandler‘s character in Completely satisfied Gilmore (1996), had recurring roles on Police Academy: The Sequence and The King of Queens and taught comedy writing at Humber School in Toronto.
He additionally appeared on the large display screen in Tunnel Imaginative and prescient (1976), 1941 (1979), Used Automobiles (1980), Stripes (1981), Heavy Metallic (1981), Going Berserk (1983), Comply with That Chook (1985), One Loopy Summer season (1986), Innerspace (1987), Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989), Stuart Saves His Household (1995), Detroit Rock Metropolis (1999) and Freddy Acquired Fingered (2001).
Survivors embody his youthful brother, Paul Flaherty, who wrote for SCTV and different reveals like Muppets Tonight, and his kids, Gabriel and Gudrun. He was married to Judith Flaherty for 20 years till their 1996 divorce.
Mike Barnes contributed to this report.
Joe Flaherty, the two-time Emmy-winning author and Second Metropolis alumnus who sparkled as Man Caballero, Depend Floyd, Massive Jim McBob and Sammy Maudlin as an unique castmember on the landmark Canadian sketch comedy sequence SCTV, has died. He was 82.
His daughter, Gudrun Flaherty, advised the Canadian Press he died Monday after a quick sickness.
A local of Pittsburgh, Flaherty additionally was identified for his stint as A-1 Sporting Items proprietor Harold Weir (the daddy of Linda Cardellini and John Francis Daley’s characters) on the 1999-2000 NBC sequence Freaks and Geeks and for his flip as a Western Union man in Again to the Future Half II (1989).
And on the 1990-93 Canadian-American sitcom Maniac Mansion, created by SCTV teammate Eugene Levy, he performed the scientist dad Fred Edison whereas writing and directing for the present as effectively.
A grasp of sketch and improv comedy, Flaherty received his begin with the Second Metropolis comedy troupe at its Chicago flagship earlier than transferring to Toronto in 1973 to assist open a brand new outpost in Canada.
From there, he segued to SCTV, which debuted on the International community in Canada in 1976 and featured different unique gamers Levy, Catherine O’Hara, John Sweet, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas and Harold Ramis.
Flaherty thrived on all six seasons of the present by 1984, taking part in such characters as Caballero, the shady, shameless proprietor of the fictional SCTV station; Floyd Robertson, the intense anchor of the Melonville Nightly Information, and Depend Floyd, the vampiric host of Monster Chiller Horror Theatre; the flashy talk-show host Maudlin; and McBob, the Farm Report host and film reviewer who, with Sweet’s Billy Sol Hurok, made celebrities “blow up actual good.”
In the meantime, Flaherty shared 9 Emmy nominations for excellent writing in a spread or music program on SCTV, successful in 1982 and ’83.
“We didn’t have a producer, no one advised us what to jot down, who to enchantment to, we simply wrote for ourselves,” he stated in a 1999 interview with the Pittsburgh Put up-Gazette. “We have been the inmates working the asylum. We created our personal little world and it paid off. … I want we may do it once more.”
The son of a manufacturing clerk at Westinghouse Electrical, Flaherty was born on June 21, 1941, and raised within the Homewood part of Pittsburgh. As an adolescent, he studied performing on the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
“I undoubtedly consider myself as extra of an actor than a comic book — my coaching was in drama, I solely fell into comedy by accident,” he advised the Globe and Mail in 2002. “And I believe persons are stunned after they meet me, as a result of they anticipate me to be entertaining and humorous, like a stand-up. I’m simply not that manner.”
Flaherty left Westinghouse Excessive Faculty to spend 4 years within the U.S. Air Pressure, attended Level Park School for a yr and labored as a draftsman earlier than transferring to Chicago to take a job as a stage supervisor for Second Metropolis in 1969.
Within the wings, “I watched it and simply liked it,” he advised Jen Sweet (John Sweet’s daughter) on a 2020 installment of her Sofa Sweet present. “Little sketches, humorous bits, satiric bits, after which afterward they’d improvise. I assumed, ‘Wow, that is nice. I’ve received to be part of this.’ “
Flaherty was promoted to author and performer and labored alongside the likes of Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and John Belushi. 4 years later, he, Doyle-Murray and others headed to Toronto to arrange store there, and he had a hand in hiring Sweet, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd and others.
Flaherty additionally did the Nationwide Lampoon Radio Hour in 1973-74 with Belushi, Radner, Invoice Murray and Chevy Chase and spent a yr in Los Angeles serving to to open a Second Metropolis in Pasadena earlier than returning to Toronto.
The success of NBC’s Saturday Night time Dwell, which had bowed in October 1975, made satire a sizzling commodity and helped SCTV get a inexperienced mild.
“Politically, it was charged. Saturday Night time Dwell simply took off. It helped us. The producers at Second Metropolis determined to begin up a TV present. They needed to maintain the actors comfortable and provides us an opportunity to do extra,” Flaherty stated in 2004.
Whereas he was engaged on the primary season of SCTV, he did double obligation on one other Canadian TV program, The David Steinberg Present.
On SCTV, Flaherty did impressions of Bing Crosby, Alan Alda, Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck, Peter O’Toole and others. And when Depend Floyd wasn’t teasing such Monster Chiller Horror Theatre flicks as Dr. Tongue’s 3-D Home of Slave Chicks and Blood-Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin Pennsylvania, he was being thanked on Alice Cooper’s Particular Forces album and introducing Rush’s “The Weapon” on the Canadian band’s 1984 Grace Beneath Strain tour.
Flaherty and different SCTV performers reunited in 2008 for the primary time in 24 years at Second Metropolis Toronto for a charitable fund-raiser, then received collectively a decade later on the Elgin Theater for An Afternoon With SCTV, a reside occasion hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
He famously heckled Adam Sandler‘s character in Completely satisfied Gilmore (1996), had recurring roles on Police Academy: The Sequence and The King of Queens and taught comedy writing at Humber School in Toronto.
He additionally appeared on the large display screen in Tunnel Imaginative and prescient (1976), 1941 (1979), Used Automobiles (1980), Stripes (1981), Heavy Metallic (1981), Going Berserk (1983), Comply with That Chook (1985), One Loopy Summer season (1986), Innerspace (1987), Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989), Stuart Saves His Household (1995), Detroit Rock Metropolis (1999) and Freddy Acquired Fingered (2001).
Survivors embody his youthful brother, Paul Flaherty, who wrote for SCTV and different reveals like Muppets Tonight, and his kids, Gabriel and Gudrun. He was married to Judith Flaherty for 20 years till their 1996 divorce.
Mike Barnes contributed to this report.
Joe Flaherty, the two-time Emmy-winning author and Second Metropolis alumnus who sparkled as Man Caballero, Depend Floyd, Massive Jim McBob and Sammy Maudlin as an unique castmember on the landmark Canadian sketch comedy sequence SCTV, has died. He was 82.
His daughter, Gudrun Flaherty, advised the Canadian Press he died Monday after a quick sickness.
A local of Pittsburgh, Flaherty additionally was identified for his stint as A-1 Sporting Items proprietor Harold Weir (the daddy of Linda Cardellini and John Francis Daley’s characters) on the 1999-2000 NBC sequence Freaks and Geeks and for his flip as a Western Union man in Again to the Future Half II (1989).
And on the 1990-93 Canadian-American sitcom Maniac Mansion, created by SCTV teammate Eugene Levy, he performed the scientist dad Fred Edison whereas writing and directing for the present as effectively.
A grasp of sketch and improv comedy, Flaherty received his begin with the Second Metropolis comedy troupe at its Chicago flagship earlier than transferring to Toronto in 1973 to assist open a brand new outpost in Canada.
From there, he segued to SCTV, which debuted on the International community in Canada in 1976 and featured different unique gamers Levy, Catherine O’Hara, John Sweet, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas and Harold Ramis.
Flaherty thrived on all six seasons of the present by 1984, taking part in such characters as Caballero, the shady, shameless proprietor of the fictional SCTV station; Floyd Robertson, the intense anchor of the Melonville Nightly Information, and Depend Floyd, the vampiric host of Monster Chiller Horror Theatre; the flashy talk-show host Maudlin; and McBob, the Farm Report host and film reviewer who, with Sweet’s Billy Sol Hurok, made celebrities “blow up actual good.”
In the meantime, Flaherty shared 9 Emmy nominations for excellent writing in a spread or music program on SCTV, successful in 1982 and ’83.
“We didn’t have a producer, no one advised us what to jot down, who to enchantment to, we simply wrote for ourselves,” he stated in a 1999 interview with the Pittsburgh Put up-Gazette. “We have been the inmates working the asylum. We created our personal little world and it paid off. … I want we may do it once more.”
The son of a manufacturing clerk at Westinghouse Electrical, Flaherty was born on June 21, 1941, and raised within the Homewood part of Pittsburgh. As an adolescent, he studied performing on the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
“I undoubtedly consider myself as extra of an actor than a comic book — my coaching was in drama, I solely fell into comedy by accident,” he advised the Globe and Mail in 2002. “And I believe persons are stunned after they meet me, as a result of they anticipate me to be entertaining and humorous, like a stand-up. I’m simply not that manner.”
Flaherty left Westinghouse Excessive Faculty to spend 4 years within the U.S. Air Pressure, attended Level Park School for a yr and labored as a draftsman earlier than transferring to Chicago to take a job as a stage supervisor for Second Metropolis in 1969.
Within the wings, “I watched it and simply liked it,” he advised Jen Sweet (John Sweet’s daughter) on a 2020 installment of her Sofa Sweet present. “Little sketches, humorous bits, satiric bits, after which afterward they’d improvise. I assumed, ‘Wow, that is nice. I’ve received to be part of this.’ “
Flaherty was promoted to author and performer and labored alongside the likes of Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and John Belushi. 4 years later, he, Doyle-Murray and others headed to Toronto to arrange store there, and he had a hand in hiring Sweet, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd and others.
Flaherty additionally did the Nationwide Lampoon Radio Hour in 1973-74 with Belushi, Radner, Invoice Murray and Chevy Chase and spent a yr in Los Angeles serving to to open a Second Metropolis in Pasadena earlier than returning to Toronto.
The success of NBC’s Saturday Night time Dwell, which had bowed in October 1975, made satire a sizzling commodity and helped SCTV get a inexperienced mild.
“Politically, it was charged. Saturday Night time Dwell simply took off. It helped us. The producers at Second Metropolis determined to begin up a TV present. They needed to maintain the actors comfortable and provides us an opportunity to do extra,” Flaherty stated in 2004.
Whereas he was engaged on the primary season of SCTV, he did double obligation on one other Canadian TV program, The David Steinberg Present.
On SCTV, Flaherty did impressions of Bing Crosby, Alan Alda, Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck, Peter O’Toole and others. And when Depend Floyd wasn’t teasing such Monster Chiller Horror Theatre flicks as Dr. Tongue’s 3-D Home of Slave Chicks and Blood-Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin Pennsylvania, he was being thanked on Alice Cooper’s Particular Forces album and introducing Rush’s “The Weapon” on the Canadian band’s 1984 Grace Beneath Strain tour.
Flaherty and different SCTV performers reunited in 2008 for the primary time in 24 years at Second Metropolis Toronto for a charitable fund-raiser, then received collectively a decade later on the Elgin Theater for An Afternoon With SCTV, a reside occasion hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
He famously heckled Adam Sandler‘s character in Completely satisfied Gilmore (1996), had recurring roles on Police Academy: The Sequence and The King of Queens and taught comedy writing at Humber School in Toronto.
He additionally appeared on the large display screen in Tunnel Imaginative and prescient (1976), 1941 (1979), Used Automobiles (1980), Stripes (1981), Heavy Metallic (1981), Going Berserk (1983), Comply with That Chook (1985), One Loopy Summer season (1986), Innerspace (1987), Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989), Stuart Saves His Household (1995), Detroit Rock Metropolis (1999) and Freddy Acquired Fingered (2001).
Survivors embody his youthful brother, Paul Flaherty, who wrote for SCTV and different reveals like Muppets Tonight, and his kids, Gabriel and Gudrun. He was married to Judith Flaherty for 20 years till their 1996 divorce.
Mike Barnes contributed to this report.
Joe Flaherty, the two-time Emmy-winning author and Second Metropolis alumnus who sparkled as Man Caballero, Depend Floyd, Massive Jim McBob and Sammy Maudlin as an unique castmember on the landmark Canadian sketch comedy sequence SCTV, has died. He was 82.
His daughter, Gudrun Flaherty, advised the Canadian Press he died Monday after a quick sickness.
A local of Pittsburgh, Flaherty additionally was identified for his stint as A-1 Sporting Items proprietor Harold Weir (the daddy of Linda Cardellini and John Francis Daley’s characters) on the 1999-2000 NBC sequence Freaks and Geeks and for his flip as a Western Union man in Again to the Future Half II (1989).
And on the 1990-93 Canadian-American sitcom Maniac Mansion, created by SCTV teammate Eugene Levy, he performed the scientist dad Fred Edison whereas writing and directing for the present as effectively.
A grasp of sketch and improv comedy, Flaherty received his begin with the Second Metropolis comedy troupe at its Chicago flagship earlier than transferring to Toronto in 1973 to assist open a brand new outpost in Canada.
From there, he segued to SCTV, which debuted on the International community in Canada in 1976 and featured different unique gamers Levy, Catherine O’Hara, John Sweet, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas and Harold Ramis.
Flaherty thrived on all six seasons of the present by 1984, taking part in such characters as Caballero, the shady, shameless proprietor of the fictional SCTV station; Floyd Robertson, the intense anchor of the Melonville Nightly Information, and Depend Floyd, the vampiric host of Monster Chiller Horror Theatre; the flashy talk-show host Maudlin; and McBob, the Farm Report host and film reviewer who, with Sweet’s Billy Sol Hurok, made celebrities “blow up actual good.”
In the meantime, Flaherty shared 9 Emmy nominations for excellent writing in a spread or music program on SCTV, successful in 1982 and ’83.
“We didn’t have a producer, no one advised us what to jot down, who to enchantment to, we simply wrote for ourselves,” he stated in a 1999 interview with the Pittsburgh Put up-Gazette. “We have been the inmates working the asylum. We created our personal little world and it paid off. … I want we may do it once more.”
The son of a manufacturing clerk at Westinghouse Electrical, Flaherty was born on June 21, 1941, and raised within the Homewood part of Pittsburgh. As an adolescent, he studied performing on the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
“I undoubtedly consider myself as extra of an actor than a comic book — my coaching was in drama, I solely fell into comedy by accident,” he advised the Globe and Mail in 2002. “And I believe persons are stunned after they meet me, as a result of they anticipate me to be entertaining and humorous, like a stand-up. I’m simply not that manner.”
Flaherty left Westinghouse Excessive Faculty to spend 4 years within the U.S. Air Pressure, attended Level Park School for a yr and labored as a draftsman earlier than transferring to Chicago to take a job as a stage supervisor for Second Metropolis in 1969.
Within the wings, “I watched it and simply liked it,” he advised Jen Sweet (John Sweet’s daughter) on a 2020 installment of her Sofa Sweet present. “Little sketches, humorous bits, satiric bits, after which afterward they’d improvise. I assumed, ‘Wow, that is nice. I’ve received to be part of this.’ “
Flaherty was promoted to author and performer and labored alongside the likes of Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and John Belushi. 4 years later, he, Doyle-Murray and others headed to Toronto to arrange store there, and he had a hand in hiring Sweet, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd and others.
Flaherty additionally did the Nationwide Lampoon Radio Hour in 1973-74 with Belushi, Radner, Invoice Murray and Chevy Chase and spent a yr in Los Angeles serving to to open a Second Metropolis in Pasadena earlier than returning to Toronto.
The success of NBC’s Saturday Night time Dwell, which had bowed in October 1975, made satire a sizzling commodity and helped SCTV get a inexperienced mild.
“Politically, it was charged. Saturday Night time Dwell simply took off. It helped us. The producers at Second Metropolis determined to begin up a TV present. They needed to maintain the actors comfortable and provides us an opportunity to do extra,” Flaherty stated in 2004.
Whereas he was engaged on the primary season of SCTV, he did double obligation on one other Canadian TV program, The David Steinberg Present.
On SCTV, Flaherty did impressions of Bing Crosby, Alan Alda, Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck, Peter O’Toole and others. And when Depend Floyd wasn’t teasing such Monster Chiller Horror Theatre flicks as Dr. Tongue’s 3-D Home of Slave Chicks and Blood-Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin Pennsylvania, he was being thanked on Alice Cooper’s Particular Forces album and introducing Rush’s “The Weapon” on the Canadian band’s 1984 Grace Beneath Strain tour.
Flaherty and different SCTV performers reunited in 2008 for the primary time in 24 years at Second Metropolis Toronto for a charitable fund-raiser, then received collectively a decade later on the Elgin Theater for An Afternoon With SCTV, a reside occasion hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
He famously heckled Adam Sandler‘s character in Completely satisfied Gilmore (1996), had recurring roles on Police Academy: The Sequence and The King of Queens and taught comedy writing at Humber School in Toronto.
He additionally appeared on the large display screen in Tunnel Imaginative and prescient (1976), 1941 (1979), Used Automobiles (1980), Stripes (1981), Heavy Metallic (1981), Going Berserk (1983), Comply with That Chook (1985), One Loopy Summer season (1986), Innerspace (1987), Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989), Stuart Saves His Household (1995), Detroit Rock Metropolis (1999) and Freddy Acquired Fingered (2001).
Survivors embody his youthful brother, Paul Flaherty, who wrote for SCTV and different reveals like Muppets Tonight, and his kids, Gabriel and Gudrun. He was married to Judith Flaherty for 20 years till their 1996 divorce.
Mike Barnes contributed to this report.
Joe Flaherty, the two-time Emmy-winning author and Second Metropolis alumnus who sparkled as Man Caballero, Depend Floyd, Massive Jim McBob and Sammy Maudlin as an unique castmember on the landmark Canadian sketch comedy sequence SCTV, has died. He was 82.
His daughter, Gudrun Flaherty, advised the Canadian Press he died Monday after a quick sickness.
A local of Pittsburgh, Flaherty additionally was identified for his stint as A-1 Sporting Items proprietor Harold Weir (the daddy of Linda Cardellini and John Francis Daley’s characters) on the 1999-2000 NBC sequence Freaks and Geeks and for his flip as a Western Union man in Again to the Future Half II (1989).
And on the 1990-93 Canadian-American sitcom Maniac Mansion, created by SCTV teammate Eugene Levy, he performed the scientist dad Fred Edison whereas writing and directing for the present as effectively.
A grasp of sketch and improv comedy, Flaherty received his begin with the Second Metropolis comedy troupe at its Chicago flagship earlier than transferring to Toronto in 1973 to assist open a brand new outpost in Canada.
From there, he segued to SCTV, which debuted on the International community in Canada in 1976 and featured different unique gamers Levy, Catherine O’Hara, John Sweet, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas and Harold Ramis.
Flaherty thrived on all six seasons of the present by 1984, taking part in such characters as Caballero, the shady, shameless proprietor of the fictional SCTV station; Floyd Robertson, the intense anchor of the Melonville Nightly Information, and Depend Floyd, the vampiric host of Monster Chiller Horror Theatre; the flashy talk-show host Maudlin; and McBob, the Farm Report host and film reviewer who, with Sweet’s Billy Sol Hurok, made celebrities “blow up actual good.”
In the meantime, Flaherty shared 9 Emmy nominations for excellent writing in a spread or music program on SCTV, successful in 1982 and ’83.
“We didn’t have a producer, no one advised us what to jot down, who to enchantment to, we simply wrote for ourselves,” he stated in a 1999 interview with the Pittsburgh Put up-Gazette. “We have been the inmates working the asylum. We created our personal little world and it paid off. … I want we may do it once more.”
The son of a manufacturing clerk at Westinghouse Electrical, Flaherty was born on June 21, 1941, and raised within the Homewood part of Pittsburgh. As an adolescent, he studied performing on the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
“I undoubtedly consider myself as extra of an actor than a comic book — my coaching was in drama, I solely fell into comedy by accident,” he advised the Globe and Mail in 2002. “And I believe persons are stunned after they meet me, as a result of they anticipate me to be entertaining and humorous, like a stand-up. I’m simply not that manner.”
Flaherty left Westinghouse Excessive Faculty to spend 4 years within the U.S. Air Pressure, attended Level Park School for a yr and labored as a draftsman earlier than transferring to Chicago to take a job as a stage supervisor for Second Metropolis in 1969.
Within the wings, “I watched it and simply liked it,” he advised Jen Sweet (John Sweet’s daughter) on a 2020 installment of her Sofa Sweet present. “Little sketches, humorous bits, satiric bits, after which afterward they’d improvise. I assumed, ‘Wow, that is nice. I’ve received to be part of this.’ “
Flaherty was promoted to author and performer and labored alongside the likes of Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and John Belushi. 4 years later, he, Doyle-Murray and others headed to Toronto to arrange store there, and he had a hand in hiring Sweet, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd and others.
Flaherty additionally did the Nationwide Lampoon Radio Hour in 1973-74 with Belushi, Radner, Invoice Murray and Chevy Chase and spent a yr in Los Angeles serving to to open a Second Metropolis in Pasadena earlier than returning to Toronto.
The success of NBC’s Saturday Night time Dwell, which had bowed in October 1975, made satire a sizzling commodity and helped SCTV get a inexperienced mild.
“Politically, it was charged. Saturday Night time Dwell simply took off. It helped us. The producers at Second Metropolis determined to begin up a TV present. They needed to maintain the actors comfortable and provides us an opportunity to do extra,” Flaherty stated in 2004.
Whereas he was engaged on the primary season of SCTV, he did double obligation on one other Canadian TV program, The David Steinberg Present.
On SCTV, Flaherty did impressions of Bing Crosby, Alan Alda, Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck, Peter O’Toole and others. And when Depend Floyd wasn’t teasing such Monster Chiller Horror Theatre flicks as Dr. Tongue’s 3-D Home of Slave Chicks and Blood-Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin Pennsylvania, he was being thanked on Alice Cooper’s Particular Forces album and introducing Rush’s “The Weapon” on the Canadian band’s 1984 Grace Beneath Strain tour.
Flaherty and different SCTV performers reunited in 2008 for the primary time in 24 years at Second Metropolis Toronto for a charitable fund-raiser, then received collectively a decade later on the Elgin Theater for An Afternoon With SCTV, a reside occasion hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
He famously heckled Adam Sandler‘s character in Completely satisfied Gilmore (1996), had recurring roles on Police Academy: The Sequence and The King of Queens and taught comedy writing at Humber School in Toronto.
He additionally appeared on the large display screen in Tunnel Imaginative and prescient (1976), 1941 (1979), Used Automobiles (1980), Stripes (1981), Heavy Metallic (1981), Going Berserk (1983), Comply with That Chook (1985), One Loopy Summer season (1986), Innerspace (1987), Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989), Stuart Saves His Household (1995), Detroit Rock Metropolis (1999) and Freddy Acquired Fingered (2001).
Survivors embody his youthful brother, Paul Flaherty, who wrote for SCTV and different reveals like Muppets Tonight, and his kids, Gabriel and Gudrun. He was married to Judith Flaherty for 20 years till their 1996 divorce.
Mike Barnes contributed to this report.
Joe Flaherty, the two-time Emmy-winning author and Second Metropolis alumnus who sparkled as Man Caballero, Depend Floyd, Massive Jim McBob and Sammy Maudlin as an unique castmember on the landmark Canadian sketch comedy sequence SCTV, has died. He was 82.
His daughter, Gudrun Flaherty, advised the Canadian Press he died Monday after a quick sickness.
A local of Pittsburgh, Flaherty additionally was identified for his stint as A-1 Sporting Items proprietor Harold Weir (the daddy of Linda Cardellini and John Francis Daley’s characters) on the 1999-2000 NBC sequence Freaks and Geeks and for his flip as a Western Union man in Again to the Future Half II (1989).
And on the 1990-93 Canadian-American sitcom Maniac Mansion, created by SCTV teammate Eugene Levy, he performed the scientist dad Fred Edison whereas writing and directing for the present as effectively.
A grasp of sketch and improv comedy, Flaherty received his begin with the Second Metropolis comedy troupe at its Chicago flagship earlier than transferring to Toronto in 1973 to assist open a brand new outpost in Canada.
From there, he segued to SCTV, which debuted on the International community in Canada in 1976 and featured different unique gamers Levy, Catherine O’Hara, John Sweet, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas and Harold Ramis.
Flaherty thrived on all six seasons of the present by 1984, taking part in such characters as Caballero, the shady, shameless proprietor of the fictional SCTV station; Floyd Robertson, the intense anchor of the Melonville Nightly Information, and Depend Floyd, the vampiric host of Monster Chiller Horror Theatre; the flashy talk-show host Maudlin; and McBob, the Farm Report host and film reviewer who, with Sweet’s Billy Sol Hurok, made celebrities “blow up actual good.”
In the meantime, Flaherty shared 9 Emmy nominations for excellent writing in a spread or music program on SCTV, successful in 1982 and ’83.
“We didn’t have a producer, no one advised us what to jot down, who to enchantment to, we simply wrote for ourselves,” he stated in a 1999 interview with the Pittsburgh Put up-Gazette. “We have been the inmates working the asylum. We created our personal little world and it paid off. … I want we may do it once more.”
The son of a manufacturing clerk at Westinghouse Electrical, Flaherty was born on June 21, 1941, and raised within the Homewood part of Pittsburgh. As an adolescent, he studied performing on the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
“I undoubtedly consider myself as extra of an actor than a comic book — my coaching was in drama, I solely fell into comedy by accident,” he advised the Globe and Mail in 2002. “And I believe persons are stunned after they meet me, as a result of they anticipate me to be entertaining and humorous, like a stand-up. I’m simply not that manner.”
Flaherty left Westinghouse Excessive Faculty to spend 4 years within the U.S. Air Pressure, attended Level Park School for a yr and labored as a draftsman earlier than transferring to Chicago to take a job as a stage supervisor for Second Metropolis in 1969.
Within the wings, “I watched it and simply liked it,” he advised Jen Sweet (John Sweet’s daughter) on a 2020 installment of her Sofa Sweet present. “Little sketches, humorous bits, satiric bits, after which afterward they’d improvise. I assumed, ‘Wow, that is nice. I’ve received to be part of this.’ “
Flaherty was promoted to author and performer and labored alongside the likes of Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and John Belushi. 4 years later, he, Doyle-Murray and others headed to Toronto to arrange store there, and he had a hand in hiring Sweet, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd and others.
Flaherty additionally did the Nationwide Lampoon Radio Hour in 1973-74 with Belushi, Radner, Invoice Murray and Chevy Chase and spent a yr in Los Angeles serving to to open a Second Metropolis in Pasadena earlier than returning to Toronto.
The success of NBC’s Saturday Night time Dwell, which had bowed in October 1975, made satire a sizzling commodity and helped SCTV get a inexperienced mild.
“Politically, it was charged. Saturday Night time Dwell simply took off. It helped us. The producers at Second Metropolis determined to begin up a TV present. They needed to maintain the actors comfortable and provides us an opportunity to do extra,” Flaherty stated in 2004.
Whereas he was engaged on the primary season of SCTV, he did double obligation on one other Canadian TV program, The David Steinberg Present.
On SCTV, Flaherty did impressions of Bing Crosby, Alan Alda, Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck, Peter O’Toole and others. And when Depend Floyd wasn’t teasing such Monster Chiller Horror Theatre flicks as Dr. Tongue’s 3-D Home of Slave Chicks and Blood-Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin Pennsylvania, he was being thanked on Alice Cooper’s Particular Forces album and introducing Rush’s “The Weapon” on the Canadian band’s 1984 Grace Beneath Strain tour.
Flaherty and different SCTV performers reunited in 2008 for the primary time in 24 years at Second Metropolis Toronto for a charitable fund-raiser, then received collectively a decade later on the Elgin Theater for An Afternoon With SCTV, a reside occasion hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
He famously heckled Adam Sandler‘s character in Completely satisfied Gilmore (1996), had recurring roles on Police Academy: The Sequence and The King of Queens and taught comedy writing at Humber School in Toronto.
He additionally appeared on the large display screen in Tunnel Imaginative and prescient (1976), 1941 (1979), Used Automobiles (1980), Stripes (1981), Heavy Metallic (1981), Going Berserk (1983), Comply with That Chook (1985), One Loopy Summer season (1986), Innerspace (1987), Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989), Stuart Saves His Household (1995), Detroit Rock Metropolis (1999) and Freddy Acquired Fingered (2001).
Survivors embody his youthful brother, Paul Flaherty, who wrote for SCTV and different reveals like Muppets Tonight, and his kids, Gabriel and Gudrun. He was married to Judith Flaherty for 20 years till their 1996 divorce.
Mike Barnes contributed to this report.
Joe Flaherty, the two-time Emmy-winning author and Second Metropolis alumnus who sparkled as Man Caballero, Depend Floyd, Massive Jim McBob and Sammy Maudlin as an unique castmember on the landmark Canadian sketch comedy sequence SCTV, has died. He was 82.
His daughter, Gudrun Flaherty, advised the Canadian Press he died Monday after a quick sickness.
A local of Pittsburgh, Flaherty additionally was identified for his stint as A-1 Sporting Items proprietor Harold Weir (the daddy of Linda Cardellini and John Francis Daley’s characters) on the 1999-2000 NBC sequence Freaks and Geeks and for his flip as a Western Union man in Again to the Future Half II (1989).
And on the 1990-93 Canadian-American sitcom Maniac Mansion, created by SCTV teammate Eugene Levy, he performed the scientist dad Fred Edison whereas writing and directing for the present as effectively.
A grasp of sketch and improv comedy, Flaherty received his begin with the Second Metropolis comedy troupe at its Chicago flagship earlier than transferring to Toronto in 1973 to assist open a brand new outpost in Canada.
From there, he segued to SCTV, which debuted on the International community in Canada in 1976 and featured different unique gamers Levy, Catherine O’Hara, John Sweet, Andrea Martin, Dave Thomas and Harold Ramis.
Flaherty thrived on all six seasons of the present by 1984, taking part in such characters as Caballero, the shady, shameless proprietor of the fictional SCTV station; Floyd Robertson, the intense anchor of the Melonville Nightly Information, and Depend Floyd, the vampiric host of Monster Chiller Horror Theatre; the flashy talk-show host Maudlin; and McBob, the Farm Report host and film reviewer who, with Sweet’s Billy Sol Hurok, made celebrities “blow up actual good.”
In the meantime, Flaherty shared 9 Emmy nominations for excellent writing in a spread or music program on SCTV, successful in 1982 and ’83.
“We didn’t have a producer, no one advised us what to jot down, who to enchantment to, we simply wrote for ourselves,” he stated in a 1999 interview with the Pittsburgh Put up-Gazette. “We have been the inmates working the asylum. We created our personal little world and it paid off. … I want we may do it once more.”
The son of a manufacturing clerk at Westinghouse Electrical, Flaherty was born on June 21, 1941, and raised within the Homewood part of Pittsburgh. As an adolescent, he studied performing on the Pittsburgh Playhouse.
“I undoubtedly consider myself as extra of an actor than a comic book — my coaching was in drama, I solely fell into comedy by accident,” he advised the Globe and Mail in 2002. “And I believe persons are stunned after they meet me, as a result of they anticipate me to be entertaining and humorous, like a stand-up. I’m simply not that manner.”
Flaherty left Westinghouse Excessive Faculty to spend 4 years within the U.S. Air Pressure, attended Level Park School for a yr and labored as a draftsman earlier than transferring to Chicago to take a job as a stage supervisor for Second Metropolis in 1969.
Within the wings, “I watched it and simply liked it,” he advised Jen Sweet (John Sweet’s daughter) on a 2020 installment of her Sofa Sweet present. “Little sketches, humorous bits, satiric bits, after which afterward they’d improvise. I assumed, ‘Wow, that is nice. I’ve received to be part of this.’ “
Flaherty was promoted to author and performer and labored alongside the likes of Brian Doyle-Murray, Ramis and John Belushi. 4 years later, he, Doyle-Murray and others headed to Toronto to arrange store there, and he had a hand in hiring Sweet, Gilda Radner, Dan Aykroyd and others.
Flaherty additionally did the Nationwide Lampoon Radio Hour in 1973-74 with Belushi, Radner, Invoice Murray and Chevy Chase and spent a yr in Los Angeles serving to to open a Second Metropolis in Pasadena earlier than returning to Toronto.
The success of NBC’s Saturday Night time Dwell, which had bowed in October 1975, made satire a sizzling commodity and helped SCTV get a inexperienced mild.
“Politically, it was charged. Saturday Night time Dwell simply took off. It helped us. The producers at Second Metropolis determined to begin up a TV present. They needed to maintain the actors comfortable and provides us an opportunity to do extra,” Flaherty stated in 2004.
Whereas he was engaged on the primary season of SCTV, he did double obligation on one other Canadian TV program, The David Steinberg Present.
On SCTV, Flaherty did impressions of Bing Crosby, Alan Alda, Kirk Douglas, Gregory Peck, Peter O’Toole and others. And when Depend Floyd wasn’t teasing such Monster Chiller Horror Theatre flicks as Dr. Tongue’s 3-D Home of Slave Chicks and Blood-Sucking Monkeys From West Mifflin Pennsylvania, he was being thanked on Alice Cooper’s Particular Forces album and introducing Rush’s “The Weapon” on the Canadian band’s 1984 Grace Beneath Strain tour.
Flaherty and different SCTV performers reunited in 2008 for the primary time in 24 years at Second Metropolis Toronto for a charitable fund-raiser, then received collectively a decade later on the Elgin Theater for An Afternoon With SCTV, a reside occasion hosted by Jimmy Kimmel.
He famously heckled Adam Sandler‘s character in Completely satisfied Gilmore (1996), had recurring roles on Police Academy: The Sequence and The King of Queens and taught comedy writing at Humber School in Toronto.
He additionally appeared on the large display screen in Tunnel Imaginative and prescient (1976), 1941 (1979), Used Automobiles (1980), Stripes (1981), Heavy Metallic (1981), Going Berserk (1983), Comply with That Chook (1985), One Loopy Summer season (1986), Innerspace (1987), Who’s Harry Crumb? (1989), Stuart Saves His Household (1995), Detroit Rock Metropolis (1999) and Freddy Acquired Fingered (2001).
Survivors embody his youthful brother, Paul Flaherty, who wrote for SCTV and different reveals like Muppets Tonight, and his kids, Gabriel and Gudrun. He was married to Judith Flaherty for 20 years till their 1996 divorce.
Mike Barnes contributed to this report.