A Canadian television icon has passed away.
Joe Flaherty, best-known as a founding member of the sketch television series SCTV, passed away on Monday at the age of 82.
An American by birth, Flaherty started his career in Chicago at the influential Second City Theatre.
He moved to Toronto in the 1970s to help establish a Second City troupe in Canada and was an original writer and performer on SCTV—a fictional small-time television station that created its own programming.
Flaherty worked alongside legendary comedians John Candy, Rick Moranis, and Catherine O’Hara among others.
Among the characters he created was Count Floyd, the host of Monster Chiller Horror Theatre and dim-witted former convict Rocco.
