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Joe Flaherty, Comedy Great on ‘SCTV’ and ‘Freaks and Geeks,’ Dead at 82
Joe Flaherty, the great comedian and writer best known for his work on 'SCTV' and 'Freaks and Geeks,' has died at the age of 82.
Like Flaherty, the performers all came from the Toronto branch of the Chicago’s Second City comedy troupe, and many went on to be future stars, including Short, Rick Moranis, John Candy, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O’Hara, and Harold Ramis. Levy cast him on his sitcom, Maniac Mansion, which ran on Canadian TV for three seasons in the early Nineties, and he picked up guest roles on shows like Married… with Children, Ellen, and Dinosaurs. Harold was an easy favorite supporting character on the show — his cantankerous, stern attitude was often undercut by his genuine Midwest kindness and outlandish stories about “friends” who met gruesome deaths because they misbehaved.
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