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The Big Picture Joe Flaherty, the comedy legend behind decades of memorable performances, has died. A longtime member of the Second City comedy troupe, Flaherty starred in the pioneering sketch comedy series SCTV, and made indelible appearances on Freaks and Geeks, Back to the Future Part II, and Happy Gilmore, among many others. Variety reports that Flaherty died yesterday at the age of 82.
Flaherty was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on June 21, 1941. He began performing at the Second City Theater, where he wrote and acted alongside a number of nascent comedy superstars, including Bill Murray, John Belushi, Harold Ramis, and Gilda Radner. In the 1970s, he and Ramis relocated to Toronto, where they established the Canadian branch of the Second City.
What Was 'SCTV'? A sketch comedy show with the loose framing device of being the "broadcast day" for a small-town TV station, SCTV premiered in 1976 and went on to air on four different networks over the course of its six seasons. Flaherty played a number of memorable characters, including tyrannical station owner Guy Caballero, sycophantic talk-show host Sammy Maudlin, and newscaster Floyd Robertson, who also hosted Monster Chiller Horror Theater as horror host Count Floyd.
After SCTV came to an end, Flaherty was a constant presence on comedy TV and film. Among his more memorable roles include a befuddled Western Union delivery man at the climax of Back to the Future Part II, con artist Sid Sleaze in Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird, and an obnoxious golf heckler in Happy Gilmore.
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