1. Joe Flaherty is best known for his work on the Canadian sketch comedy SCTV from 1976 to 1984, his role as Harold Weir on Freaks and Geeks, and as the heckler in Happy Gilmore.
16 Facts About Joe Flaherty
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Joseph O'Joe Flaherty was born on June 21,1941, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the eldest of seven children.
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Joe Flaherty's father was a production clerk at Westinghouse Electric and of Irish heritage and his mother was of Italian descent.
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Joe Flaherty served in the United States Air Force for four years, before becoming involved in dramatic theatre.
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Joe Flaherty dropped the "O" in his birth name as there was another Joseph O'Flaherty registered with Actors Equity.
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In 1988, Joe Flaherty reprised his Count Floyd character for live-action segments of the animated series The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley, a character created and voiced by another SCTV alum, Martin Short.
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In season eight of Family Guy, Joe Flaherty played the Western Union man in "Something, Something, Something, Dark Side".
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Joe Flaherty plays a Vatican Messenger in the Family Guy season 9 episode "The Big Bang Theory".
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Joe Flaherty made appearances on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens as Father McAndrew, the priest at the Heffernans' church.
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Joe Flaherty starred on the Bite TV original program, Uncle Joe's Cartoon Playhouse, and served as a judge on the CBC program The Second City's Next Comedy Legend.
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In 2018, Joe Flaherty participated in a SCTV cast reunion at Toronto's Elgin Theatre filmed by Martin Scorsese for a yet to be released Netflix special on SCTV.
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Joe Flaherty previously helped found the school's comedy writing and performance program serving as its artistic director.
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Joe Flaherty was married to Judith Dagley for 22 years until their divorce in 1996.
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Joe Flaherty died on April 1,2024, at the age of 82, after a short illness.
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Joe Flaherty appeared in a cameo in the deleted scenes from Anchorman as the manager of a Texas television station and the boss of Veronica Corningstone, one of the members of the station's news team.
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Joe Flaherty appeared as an immigration Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer in the "Canadian Road Trip" episode of That '70s Show alongside fellow SCTV member Dave Thomas.