Remembering David John (DJ) McCarthey

Remembering David John (DJ) McCarthey

Good Bye DJ, and Thank You.

I first met DJ when I was a student in Communication Studies at Concordia University in the Television Production Level 2 course, and was part of a small team of students producing a documentary on the topic of comedy as our major class project. We were a young, eager group, hungry for the chance to showcase what we could do, and build up our portfolio to get jobs in the industry.

The documentary entitled Laugh-Trax featured stand-up comics Alastair McAlastair,  the late Sean Keane, the musical sketch comedy team of Radio Free Vestibule (The Vestibules), and a group of wannabes comics from a workshop on stand-up comedy led by more established comics Barry Julien and David John McCarthey. At the time, that documentary represented one of the most important works any of us Concordia students had ever ventured doing towards carving a name for ourselves in the industry.

We were grateful for everything these great comedians shared with us.

-Frank Kermit