Joe Flaherty, the entertainer known for his jobs on SCTV and Oddities and Nerds, passed on April 1 after a short sickness. His girl, Gudrun Flaherty, affirmed the news to Canadian media. “Father was an unprecedented man, known for his limitless heart and an unflinching enthusiasm for motion pictures from the ’40s and ’50s,” she wrote in an explanation.
He esteemed each second spent on the show, so pleased with its prosperity and thus glad to be essential for an astounding cast.” Brought into the world in Pittsburgh in 1941, Flaherty started his parody vocation at the Second City comedy/satire supper club in Chicago before he co-sent off a Second City station in Toronto. Along with a top pick group — which included Catherine O’Hara, Martin Short, Rick Moranis, Eugene Duty, and Andrea Martin — Flaherty featured in the powerful Canadian sketch series SCTV from 1976 to 1984. The series’ pride was that its representations were programs on a broke Channel in Melonville, an imaginary town, with Flaherty playing various significant characters, including the disagreeable leader of the station and VIP pantomimes. The entertainer won two Emmys for his composition on SCTV in 1982 and 1983. Flaherty proceeded to star in the clique’s most loved Network program Oddities and Nerds as the father to two grumpy young people (Linda Cardellini and John Francis Daley), debuting in 1999 and running for one season. He kept acting into the 2000s, showing up on Go Fish, The Ruler of Sovereigns, and Family Fellow.
