Gordie Tapp, a regular for more than 20 years on the long-running television variety series “Hee Haw,” died on Dec. 18 in Burlington, Ontario. He was 94.

His death was announced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, where he worked for many years.

Mr. Tapp seemed comfortable in the down-home rural setting of “Hee Haw,” which was taped in Nashville. The show mixed corny jokes and novelty songs with performances by some of the biggest names in country music. But Mr. Tapp, like his fellow cast member Don Harron, who died in January 2015 — and like the show’s creators, Frank Peppiatt and John Aylesworth — was actually from Canada.

Born Gordon Robert Tapp on June 4, 1922, in London, Ontario, he began his career on a radio station in Hamilton as a jazz disc jockey and switched to country when he joined the cast of a new show called “Main Street Jamboree.” That led to a job from 1956 to 1965 as host of the CBC television show “Country Hoedown,” on which he also appeared in sketches, most notably as the bumpkin character Cousin Clem.

“Cousin Clem is a hick, but he’s not stupid,” Mr. Tapp once said of his creation. “He could be made fun of, but he seems to have the upper hand.”