Sean Hughes (comedian)
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Sean Hughes (born John Hughes, November 10, 1965) is an Irish comedian and writer based in London.
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[edit] Career
Hughes was born in London, but spent much of his youth in Firhouse, Dublin. In 1987 he started working in Comedy Store, and with his show, 'A One Night Stand With Sean Hughes' he won the prestigious Perrier Comedy Award.[1]
He marked his 30th birthday with the Sean Hughes Is Thirty Somehow tour, which was also broadcast on Channel 4, in 1995. Hughes has recently returned to stand-up, touring the UK and Australia in 2007 with his show, The Right Side of Wrong.[2]
As well as comedy, he has also written collections of prose and poetry and worked on a number of films. He also presented weekend radio shows on the BBC's London radio station BBC GLR, and in 2002 joined BBC 6 Music, presenting the Sunday morning programme. He left the station a year after its launch, proclaiming it had turned into everything he had wanted it to be. He has also written two novels, The Detainees (1998) and It's What He Would Have Wanted (2000).
A friend of Bill Hicks, Hughes wrote the foreword to Cynthia True's biography, American Scream. The Bill Hicks Story.[3] Often compared to one another, Hughes wrote about Hicks, "being a genius is a heavy burden and he's the only one I'm ever likely to meet. I still miss you Bill."
[edit] Film and Television
Hughes had a small role in the 1991 film, The Commitments playing a record producer.
In 1992, he had his own TV show, Sean's Show, ostensibly set in his own home. It received a nomination for the 1992 British Comedy Award for Best Channel 4 Sitcom. Series one of Sean's Show has been released on DVD by Channel 4.[citation needed] He later recorded a series of brief programmes called Sean's Shorts, in which he toured England, visiting many of the country's towns and cities, visiting local places of interest and meeting local people.
Until 2002, Hughes was a team captain on the BBC 2 comedy quiz show Never Mind The Buzzcocks, alongside Phill Jupitus and Mark Lamarr. He has since stated, in the course of his stand up routine, that he left the show because he disliked the fact that much of the apparent "spontaneity" from the guests was, in fact, rehearsed.
In ITV's series, The Last Detective, featuring "Dangerous" Davies, Hughes plays his friend, the perpetually unemployed and well-read Mod Lewis (he spends all his time at the library to save on heating). He played Eileen Grimshaw's love interest Pat in the British soap, Coronation Street.[4]
Hughes voices the part of Finbar the shark, one of a number of plastic bath toys which come to life when no-one is watching, in the children's TV series 'Rubbadubbers', shown on the BBC's 'CBeebies' channel in the UK for pre-school children.
[edit] References
- ^ "PAST COMEDY AWARD WINNERS". Perrier Comedy Award. Retrieved on April 29, 2008.
- ^ "Sean Hughes: The Right Side of Wrong". Press Release. Retrieved on April 29, 2008.
- ^ "American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story". Salon. Retrieved on April 29, 2008.
- ^ Sean Hughes joins Corrie cast Digitalspy.co.uk, May 16, 2007
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