Career
He is best known for sketch comedy television series Comedy Incorporated.
He began performing professionally while attending Melbourne University, touring Australia with revue show Laminex On The Rocks which also starred Mick Molloy, Jason Stephens and Andrew Major
McCarthy appeared on stand-up comedy stages in Melbourne during the late eighties and through the nineties and was a regular participant in the annual Melbourne International Comedy Festival before finding his way onto television He also starred in Totally Full Frontal, a late 1990s television sketch comedy show, as well as in the hit Mick Molloy comedy Crackerjack. He is best known for starring in the highly successful sketch comedy television series Comedy Incorporated.
(or Comedy Incorporated – The Late Shift as it was known as between 2005 to 2007).
He was, along with Comedy Incorporated. co-star Genevieve Morris a 2006 Australian Film Institute Awards nominee for Best Performance in a Television Comedy. At the Logie Awards of 2007 he performed the opening section as David Koch, a role he frequently portrayed in Comedy Incorporated.
In 2009, he starred in Double Take.
He notably played as Kevin Rudd and David Koch, as well as Bert Newton, Jerry Springer and Rove McManus. In 2011, he acted in the short-lived live comedy television program Live From Planet Earth, before rebounding with a starring role as former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in the ABC1 narrative comedy series At Home with Julia.