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Flaherty was born in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , but moved to Chicago where he started his comedy career with the Second City Theater as Joe O'Flaherty. After seven years in Chicago, he emigrated to Toronto, Ontario to help establish the Toronto Second City theatre troupe. During those years, he was one of the original writer/performers on ''SCTV'', where he spent eight years on the show, playing such characters as Big Jim McBob (of ''Farm Film Report'' fame), Count Floyd/Floyd Robertson (the latter being a spoof of CBC newsman Lloyd Robertson ), and station manager Guy Caballero who goes around in a Wheelchair simply for the respect therein. He left the show in 1984. Throughout his film career, Flaherty has appeared in a number of cult favourites, most notably playing the part of the Western Union postal worker who delivers Doc Brown 's 70-year-old letter to Marty McFly in the climax of 1989 's '' Back To The Future Part II ''. In 1999 , Flaherty joined the cast of '' Freaks And Geeks '', an NBC hourlong Dramedy in which he played Harold Weir, the irascible father of two teens. (He would often lecture them with cautionary tales concluding, "You know where he is now? He's dead!") Despite a dedicated Cult following, the show only lasted one season. As Of 2004 , Flaherty is a member of the faculty at Humber College , where he teaches a comedy writing course. He is also on the program's Advisory Committee. DISCOGRAPHY
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