Pete McCarthy

Quick Facts

Full Name	Pete McCarthy
Occupation	Comedian
Date Of Birth	Nov 9, 1951(1951-11-09)
Age	73
Date Of Death	October 6, 2004, Brighton, United Kingdom
Birthplace	Warrington
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Scorpio

Pete McCarthy Biography

Pete McCarthy is one of the most popular and richest Comedian who was born on November 9, 1951 in Warrington, England, United Kingdom.

Peter Charles McCarthy Robinson (9 November 1951 – 6 October 2004), known as Pete McCarthy, was an English comedian, radio and television presenter and travel writer. He was noted for his best-selling travel books McCarthy’s Bar (2000) and The Road to McCarthy (2002), in which he explored Ireland and the Irish diaspora around the world.

In 1975, McCarthy moved to the town of Brighton in East Sussex, working on a community arts project in the nearby Shoreham-by-Sea; this led to his first television appearance, on Tommy Tractor’s Triffic Toyshop Show (1977), a show for primary school children. Striving for a career in comedy, he co-founded Cliff Hanger Theatre with his friends Robin Driscoll, Steve McNicholas, Tony Haase and Rebecca Stevens, who toured the country appearing in pubs. Their first show, The Featherstone Flyer (1978), pioneered in the Hope and Anchor pub in Islington, North London, and would be followed up by a series of other shows in ensuing years; Dig for Victory (1980-1),Captive Audience (1982), They Came From Somewhere Else (1984) and Gymslip Vicar (1986), the latter being nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award. The success of the stage shows led to the creation of two television series, They Came From Somewhere Else (1984) for Channel 4 and Mornin’ Sarge (1989) on BBC Two.

Pete McCarthy Net Worth

Pete McCarthy is one of the richest Comedian from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Pete McCarthy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

McCarthy was born on 9 November 1951 in Warrington, Lancashire. His mother had moved to England from her native Ireland during the Second World War to work as a nurse. It was during this time that she met her future husband at a dance, and they would have four children, of whom Peter was the eldest. McCarthy was educated at West Park Grammar School in St Helens, a Roman Catholic institution run by the Christian Brothers. He later characterised this experience as “a mixture of hellfire and brimstone, corporal punishment and awakening sexuality”, while describing the Christian Brothers’ authoritarian education methods as “Carrot and stick without the carrot”.

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McCarthy explored the same theme further in The Hangover Show, in 1990, directed by John Dowie. For this, he was awarded both the Critic’s Award for Best Comedy as well as a Perrier Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The show was also developed into a one-off television special for BBC Scotland, broadcast on New Year’s Day 1991.

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Peter Ranked on the list of most popular Comedian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Pete McCarthy celebrates birthday on November 9 of every year.

In March 1998, the publishing house Hodder and Stoughton brought out McCarthy’s first travel book, McCarthy’s Bar: A Journey Of Discovery In Ireland. The work followed McCarthy’s journey in Ireland over a six-month period by travelling from the south to the north-west of the country. A commercial success, it would sell over a million copies; in response, he admitted “to a childlike pleasure in seeing my own book take its place on the shelves among writers I’ve admired for years. And if the literary life gets a little dull, there’s always the thrill of going into W H Smith and moving McCarthy’s Bar in front of Bill Bryson before anyone catches you.” The Daily Telegraph described it as an “affectionate, revealing and well-lubricated look at the changing face of a country” which discussed a series of “wide-eyed encounters”.