Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series “SCTV,” has died. He was 82. His daughter Gudrun said Tuesday that Flaherty died Monday following a brief illness. Flaherty, who ...

Norm Macdonald, Mike Myers and countless other famous comedians and comic actors hail from America’s neighbor in the “Great White North,” Canada. From 1976 to 1984, one of the best showcases of ...

Though he worked steadily into the second decade of this century, Joe Flaherty, who died Monday at 82, will be remembered for two series: the Canadian sketch comedy “SCTV,” which sneaked onto American ...

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SCTV is one of the most influential sketch shows in the history of comedy. You may not have seen it, but you know its cast members and it developed an outsized influence as the cast went to Hollywood.

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SCTV is kind of the show you didn’t know you knew: hugely influential without being popular. As far as cult sketch shows go, SCTV is one of the best. Begun in 1976 by the Toronto chapter of Second ...

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TORONTO — Comedian Joe Flaherty, a founding member of the Canadian sketch series “SCTV,” has died. He was 82. His daughter Gudrun said Tuesday that Flaherty died Monday following a brief illness.