Joe Flaherty
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Joe Flaherty (born June 21, 1941) is an American actor, writer, and comedian.
He is best known for his appearances on Canadian sketch comedy SCTV from 1976 to 1984 (on which he also worked as a writer) and as Harold Weir on Freaks and Geeks.
Life and career
Joseph O'Flaherty was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of a Westinghouse Electric production clerk. His father was of Irish origins, and his mother was of Italian descent.
Joe O'Flaherty performed at the Second City Theater in Chicago, where he began his comedy career as Joe O'Flaherty. He appeared on National Lampoon Radio Hour from 1973 to 1974, along with several other Second City performers. He moved to Toronto to help with the establishment of the Toronto Second City theatre troupe after seven years in Chicago. He was one of the first writers/performers on SCTV, where he spent eight years on the program, including Big Jim McBob (of Farm Film Report fame), Count Floyd/Floyd Robertson, and station owner/manager Guy Caballero, who walks about in a wheelchair solely for love.
Sammy Maudlin, seedy saxophonist-private eye, Norman Gorman, myopic public-television host Hugh Betcha, and "crazy as a snake" ex-convict Rocco were among the Flaherty's most memorable characterizations.
In 1984, SCTV's production halted. Flaherty appeared in Count Floyd during a short film performed at Rush's concerts prior to the song "The Weapon" in favor of Grace Under Pressure (and can be seen in the home video, Grace Under Pressure Tour).
Flaherty has appeared in a number of cult-favorite films, including playing Doc Brown's 70-year-old letter to Marty McFly in Back to the Future Part II (1989), as well as the crazed fan shouting "jackass" at a Mexican supermarket. In Happy Gilmore, the explorer was in search of a new sense of humor. Flaherty appeared in "Something, Something, Somebody, Dark Side" for season eight of Family Guy. In "The Big Bang Theory," he mocks his Back to the Future Part II role, this time portraying a Vatican employee whose role is essentially identical to that of his Western Union character.
Flaherty appeared in Married... with Children as a newly divorced dentist who must restore Al Bundy's teeth.
Flaherty appeared on Television Academy: The Series, 1997–1998, as Cmdt. Stuart Hefilfinger. The series was limited to just one season.
Flaherty appeared on Freaks and Geeks, a NBC hour-long drama set in the 1980–1981 academic year, in which he played Harold Weir, the irritable father of two teenagers. Despite a passionate fanbase, the program only lasted for one season. He wears a cheap vampire costume reminiscent of his "Count Floyd" character from the depicted period in "Tricks and Treats" in the third episode.
Father McAndrew, the priest at the Heffernans' church, appeared on CBS sitcom The King of Queens. He appeared on Uncle Joe's Cartoon Playhouse on Bite TV original program, and as a judge on the CBC program The Next Comedy Legend in Second City.
He appeared in numerous Disney shows and films, including The Legend of Tarzan and Home on the Range, from 2001 to 2004.
Flaherty was a member of Humber College's faculty from 2004 to 2005, where he taught a comedy-writing course. He was also on the program's advisory committee.