Joe Flaherty, Original ‘SCTV’ Castmember, Dies at 82.

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THR: Joe Flaherty, Original ‘SCTV’ Castmember, Dies at 82.

Joe Flaherty, the two-time Emmy-winning writer and Second City alumnus who sparkled as Guy Caballero, Count Floyd, Big Jim McBob and Sammy Maudlin as an original castmember on the landmark Canadian sketch comedy series SCTV, has died. He was 82.

His daughter, Gudrun Flaherty, told the Canadian Press he died Monday after a brief illness.

Anyone lucky enough to remember the original airings of SCTV, especially their 90-minute format, knows SCTV was everything SNL wasn't and could never be. 

Flaherty's knack for doing over-the-top, exaggerated comical impressions of well-known actors knows the laughter he brought. Case in point: His devastatingly hilarious impression of Charlton Heston in the SCTV parody of Towering Inferno, even though Heston wasn't in the cast of "TI".

Thanks for the number of innumerable laughs Joe. RIP.