One Twitter wag this morning called “SCTV” comic Joe Flaherty “an American so cool we all thought he was Canadian.”
Flaherty, an Emmy winner on TV (“Freaks & Geeks” was his other famous series) and a mainstay in movies, from “Back to the Future II” to “Detroit Rock City,” “The Wrong Guy” and “Happy Gilmore,” had retired over a decade ago. He was 82 when he passed away yesterday.
Yeah, he died on April 1. Timing.
But some of his characters — Count Floyd and Guy Cabellero among them — live on.
And I can’t go to a “critics’ screening” to this very day without thinking of the role models the late John Candy and the late Joe Flaherty were to…so many movie reviewers. All that’s missing are the bib overalls.
Rest in peace, funnyman. You blowed it up real good.
Movie Nation 
Very well-said. I found SCTV on late late Friday night tv in 80 or 81 when I was only 15 and became an instant and lifelong fan.
RIP Mr. Flaherty. You made us laugh.