Paul McCarthy (Australian actor)
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Paul McCarthy is an Australian comedy actor born in Melbourne in 1967. 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 Maj. 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 is best known for starring in the highly successful sketch comedy television series Comedy Inc. (or Comedy Inc - The Late Shift as it has become known in its later series). McCarthy is, along with Comedy Inc. co-star Genevieve Morris a 2006 Australian Film Institute Awards nominee for Best Performance in a Television Comedy. The TV show has received five nominations in all in 2006. It received two AFI nominations in 2005 and has received one Logie Award nomination (for Best Comedy Series) in 2005. 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 has received two Green Room Awards for his contributions to live cabaret and his (co-devised) work Cliff Hanger In Catch A Falling Star was awarded Best Cabaret Show at Melbourne Fringe 2002.
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