Beloved actor, writer, and comedian Joe Flaherty, known for his memorable roles in iconic sketch comedy series such as Second City Television (Sctv) and Freaks and Geeks, has passed away at 82.
The sad news was confirmed by Flaherty’s daughter, Gudrun, through a statement to Variety, expressing the family’s grief over the loss of a remarkable talent.
“After a brief illness, he left us yesterday, and since then, I’ve been struggling to come to terms with this immense loss,” Gudrun said.
She continued, “Dad was an extraordinary man, known for his boundless heart and an unwavering passion for movies from the ’40s and ’50s. His insights into the golden age of cinema didn’t just shape his professional life; they were also a source of endless fascination for me.”
“In these last few months, as he faced his health challenges, we had the precious opportunity to watch many...
The sad news was confirmed by Flaherty’s daughter, Gudrun, through a statement to Variety, expressing the family’s grief over the loss of a remarkable talent.
“After a brief illness, he left us yesterday, and since then, I’ve been struggling to come to terms with this immense loss,” Gudrun said.
She continued, “Dad was an extraordinary man, known for his boundless heart and an unwavering passion for movies from the ’40s and ’50s. His insights into the golden age of cinema didn’t just shape his professional life; they were also a source of endless fascination for me.”
“In these last few months, as he faced his health challenges, we had the precious opportunity to watch many...
- 4/3/2024
- by Frank Yemi
- Monsters and Critics
Joe Flaherty, a writer and performer on the influential and beloved sketch comedy series Sctv and a series regular on Freaks and Geeks, died Monday following a brief illness. He was 82.
His death was announced by his daughter Gudrun Flaherty, who said in a press statement, “After a brief illness, he left us yesterday, and since then, I’ve been struggling to come to terms with this immense loss. Dad was an extraordinary man, known for his boundless heart and an unwavering passion for movies from the ’40s and ’50s. His insights into the golden age of cinema didn’t just shape his professional life; they were also a source of endless fascination for me. In these last few months, as he faced his health challenges, we had the precious opportunity to watch many of those classic movies together — moments I will forever hold dear.”
Last month, Flaherty’s former...
His death was announced by his daughter Gudrun Flaherty, who said in a press statement, “After a brief illness, he left us yesterday, and since then, I’ve been struggling to come to terms with this immense loss. Dad was an extraordinary man, known for his boundless heart and an unwavering passion for movies from the ’40s and ’50s. His insights into the golden age of cinema didn’t just shape his professional life; they were also a source of endless fascination for me. In these last few months, as he faced his health challenges, we had the precious opportunity to watch many of those classic movies together — moments I will forever hold dear.”
Last month, Flaherty’s former...
- 4/2/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Joe Flaherty, founding member of “Sctv” and ubiquitous comic actor for decades including a stint as the Dad on “Freaks and Geeks,” has died at the age of 82, according to multiple reports.
The Pittsburgh-born performer (a rare American in the Canadian comedy sphere) got his start with the Chicago-based Second City Theater, first appearing on the “National Lampoon Radio Hour” before resettling in Toronto to become part of Second City’s core in the Great White North. He was one of the initial writer/performers on “Sctv,” a vanguard sketch comedy series co-starring John Candy, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O’Hara, Harold Ramis (for a little while), Dave Thomas, and, later, Martin Short, that mixed parody programming with behind-the-scenes shenanigans at a low rent television station in “Mellonville.” Indeed, if “Sctv” could be said to have a main character, it would be Flaherty’s Guy Caballero, the corrupt,...
The Pittsburgh-born performer (a rare American in the Canadian comedy sphere) got his start with the Chicago-based Second City Theater, first appearing on the “National Lampoon Radio Hour” before resettling in Toronto to become part of Second City’s core in the Great White North. He was one of the initial writer/performers on “Sctv,” a vanguard sketch comedy series co-starring John Candy, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O’Hara, Harold Ramis (for a little while), Dave Thomas, and, later, Martin Short, that mixed parody programming with behind-the-scenes shenanigans at a low rent television station in “Mellonville.” Indeed, if “Sctv” could be said to have a main character, it would be Flaherty’s Guy Caballero, the corrupt,...
- 4/2/2024
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
We lost the great Charles Grodin this week, but his underrated work will live on in classics like Midnight Run, The Heartbreak Kid and… Clifford (1994) Director: Paul Flaherty Stars: Martin Short, Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen Hell hath no fury like a psychotic 10 year old who just wants to go to Dinosaur World. As a parent to a kid obsessed with movies, my mom got dragged to a lot of films she…...
- 5/20/2021
- by Jason Adams
- JoBlo.com
Today being international jazz day, there will be much celebrating of the greatness of its history. I’ve done that in the past; it is a great history. But it is not all back in historical times; jazz lives, and evolves, and continues to be great. Yet how many lists of the greatest jazz albums include anything from the current century?
That they do not is no indictment of them; only sixteen percent of the years when recorded jazz has existed (not counting the present year yet) are in the twenty-first century, after all, and some prefer to bestow the label of greatness after more perspective has been achieved than sixteen (or fewer, for newer releases) years.
Nonetheless, if people are to respect jazz as a living art form, a look back at the best of its more recent releases seems worthwhile. Here’s one man’s “baker’s dozen...
That they do not is no indictment of them; only sixteen percent of the years when recorded jazz has existed (not counting the present year yet) are in the twenty-first century, after all, and some prefer to bestow the label of greatness after more perspective has been achieved than sixteen (or fewer, for newer releases) years.
Nonetheless, if people are to respect jazz as a living art form, a look back at the best of its more recent releases seems worthwhile. Here’s one man’s “baker’s dozen...
- 4/30/2016
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Jennifer Garner headed just outside of Boston, Massachusetts, on Sunday evening for a fundraiser inspired by her new film Miracles from Heaven. The actress attended a screening of the movie at the Showcase Superlux at The Street Chestnut Hill, where she walked the red carpet with the Beam family, who were the inspiration for the film. Dr. Samuel Nurko, the doctor from Children's Hospital Boston who treated the Beams' daughter, whose extraordinary story is told in the movie, also hung out with Garner on the red carpet. After the screening of the film (which opens Wednesday) and a Q&A session,...
- 3/14/2016
- by Megan Johnson
- PEOPLE.com
Jennifer Garner headed just outside of Boston, Massachusetts, on Sunday evening for a fundraiser inspired by her new film Miracles from Heaven. The actress attended a screening of the movie at the Showcase Superlux at The Street Chestnut Hill, where she walked the red carpet with the Beam family, who were the inspiration for the film. Dr. Samuel Nurko, the doctor from Children's Hospital Boston who treated the Beams' daughter, whose extraordinary story is told in the movie, also hung out with Garner on the red carpet. After the screening of the film (which opens Wednesday) and a Q&A session,...
- 3/14/2016
- by Megan Johnson
- PEOPLE.com
1. William Parker: For Those Who Are, Still (Aum Fidelity/Centering)
I have been an admirer and observer of William Parker for a quarter century, but nothing prepared me for the impact of this three-disc set's final CD, which features an orchestral composition, Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still, which ranks high among the best orchestral music of the 21st century, and I'm including classical composers. In other words, don't cringe while imagining the usual jazz-with-strings hack job. There are moments in Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still -- particularly when the choir is singing Parker's poems of life and loss and creation -- when the grandeur of the year's most fashionable jazz album, Kamasi Washington's The Epic (also a three-cd set) comes to mind, but the difference -- the reason Parker's set ranks much higher -- is that his orchestrations are vastly more contrapuntal, colorful, individual, and just plain daring.
I have been an admirer and observer of William Parker for a quarter century, but nothing prepared me for the impact of this three-disc set's final CD, which features an orchestral composition, Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still, which ranks high among the best orchestral music of the 21st century, and I'm including classical composers. In other words, don't cringe while imagining the usual jazz-with-strings hack job. There are moments in Ceremonies for Those Who Are Still -- particularly when the choir is singing Parker's poems of life and loss and creation -- when the grandeur of the year's most fashionable jazz album, Kamasi Washington's The Epic (also a three-cd set) comes to mind, but the difference -- the reason Parker's set ranks much higher -- is that his orchestrations are vastly more contrapuntal, colorful, individual, and just plain daring.
- 1/3/2016
- by SteveHoltje
- www.culturecatch.com
Some movies will always make me laugh, but let’s face it; the same movies might make others yawn. Comedy is tricky business, the hardest genre to pull off form script to screen. I’ve put together a list of 10 underrated or dismissed comedies that deserve a first chance or even a second chance at recognition. Humor is subjective, but gives these flicks a chance and I promise you will enjoy yourself.
Take a look at the list and let me know what you think and what your list might look like.
1. Big Nothing (2006) A frustrated, unemployed teacher joining forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme. Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Writers: Billy Asher, Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Stars: David Schwimmer, Simon Pegg I found Big Nothing after looking for another Simon Pegg fix having just seen Shaun of the Dead. This is a mean-spirited comedy that fits in well...
Take a look at the list and let me know what you think and what your list might look like.
1. Big Nothing (2006) A frustrated, unemployed teacher joining forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme. Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Writers: Billy Asher, Jean-Baptiste Andrea
Stars: David Schwimmer, Simon Pegg I found Big Nothing after looking for another Simon Pegg fix having just seen Shaun of the Dead. This is a mean-spirited comedy that fits in well...
- 6/24/2012
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
Last week, the hyperpolarizing California hip-hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All--or Ofwgkta, or Odd Future, or those 11 dudes who have become as much of a meme as a musical outfit--confirmed that they've signed a deal with Red Distribution/Sony. It's not a record deal, per se; rather, it is the launch of a new, largely autonomous label beneath Sony's enormous, multinational umbrella. Odd Future's members will make the records and all of the decisions about them; if all goes well, Red will simply make sure they're sold where and how they're meant to be sold.
Whatever your opinion of Odd Future, it is, at the very least, a victory for a group who've gotten this far by saying (sometimes regrettably) exactly what they've wanted to say. By the looks of it, they'll be able to keep doing just that on a much grander and potentially more lucrative scale.
Whatever your opinion of Odd Future, it is, at the very least, a victory for a group who've gotten this far by saying (sometimes regrettably) exactly what they've wanted to say. By the looks of it, they'll be able to keep doing just that on a much grander and potentially more lucrative scale.
- 5/3/2011
- by Grayson Currin
- ifc.com
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