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Joe Flaherty
Born June 21, 1941 (1941-06-21) (age 66)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
U.S.
Occupation Actor
Children Daughter (Gudrun Flaherty)

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He is currently a judge on The Second City's Next Comedy Legend. The Second City's Next Comedy Legend is a summer reality show currently airing on Canada 's CBC.

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Biography

Flaherty was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but moved to Chicago where he started his comedy career with the Second City Theater as Joe O'Flaherty. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ( often colloquially referred to as PA (its abbreviation by natives and Northeasterners is a state located in the Northeastern Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. After seven years in Chicago, he moved to Toronto, Ontario to help establish the Toronto Second City theatre troupe. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario During those years, he was one of the original writer/performers on SCTV, where he spent eight years on the show, playing such characters as Big Jim McBob (of Farm Film Report fame), Count Floyd/Floyd Robertson (the latter being a spoof of CTV newsman Lloyd Robertson), and station owner/manager Guy Caballero who goes around in a wheelchair simply for the respect therein. Count Floyd is a Fictional character featured in television and played by comic actor Joe Flaherty. Lloyd Robertson, OC, LLD (born January 19, 1934) is the chief anchor and senior editor of CTV 's national evening newscast A wheelchair is a wheeled Mobility device in which the user sits

Other memorable Flaherty characterizations included emotional talk show host Sammy Maudlin, seedy saxophonist-private eye Vic Apeggio, aggressive elocution lecturer Norman Gorman, myopic public television host Hugh Betcha and "crazy as a snake" ex-convict Rocco.

SCTV ceased production in 1984.

Throughout his film career, Flaherty has appeared in a number of cult favorites, most notably playing the part of the Western Union postal worker who delivers Doc Brown's 70-year-old letter to Marty McFly in the climax of 1989's Back to the Future Part II. The Western Union Company ( is a financial services and communications company based in the United States. "Doc Brown" redirects here For the British rapper see Doc Brown (rapper. Martin "Marty" McFly is a Fictional character and the main protagonist in the Back to the Future Back to the Future Part II is a 1989 film and a Sequel to the 1985 film Back to the Future. Younger audiences may know him best as the heckler who taunts Happy Gilmore with under-his-breath intonations of "Jackass!". Happy Gilmore is a 1996 American sports Comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler as the

In 1999, Flaherty joined the cast of Freaks and Geeks, an NBC hour-long dramedy in which he played Harold Weir, the irascible father of two teens. Freaks and Geeks is an American Television series, created by Paul Feig and produced by Judd Apatow, that aired on The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Comedy-drama, also called dramedy and dramatic-comedy, is a style of Television and movies in which there is an equal or nearly equal balance (He would often lecture them with cautionary tales concluding, "You know where he is now? He's dead!") Despite a dedicated cult following, the show only lasted one season. He makes appearances on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens as Father McAndrew, Priest at the Heffernan's Church. CBS Broadcasting Inc ( CBS) is an American radio and Television network. The King of Queens is an Emmy -nominated American Sitcom that ran for nine seasons from 1998 to 2007 He currently stars on the BITE TV original program called Uncle Joe's Cartoon Playhouse, and serves as a judge on the CBC program Second City's: Next Comedy Legend

As of 2004, Flaherty is a member of the faculty at Humber College, where he teaches a comedy writing course. BITE TV is a Canadian English language category 2 Digital cable Specialty channel. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning (generally referred to as Humber) is a College in Toronto, Ontario, He is also on the program's Advisory Committee.

Flaherty's brother is comedy writer David Flaherty. He also has a daughter, Gudrun Flaherty. [1]

Discography

Selected filmography

Trivia

Quotations

As Charlton Heston: "Damn! When are they going to stop building these buildings so high that our ladders can't reach. . . . Conversely, when are we going to start using ladders that are tall enough to reach these buildings?!?"

As Heckler in Happy Gilmore: JACKASS!!

Hey Gilmore. Happy Gilmore is a 1996 American sports Comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan and starring Adam Sandler as the . . You SUCK! Ya JACKASS!

References

  1. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0280886/bio Joe Flaherty Bio, IMDb

External links

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