Sean Hughes (comedian)

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birthname = John Hughes
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Sean Hughes (born John Hughes, November 10, 1965) is an Irish comedian and writer based in London.

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. [" [http://perriercomedyawards.com/past.htm PAST COMEDY AWARD WINNERS] ". Perrier Comedy Award. Retrieved on April 29, 2008.]

He marked his 30th birthday with the "Sean Hughes Is Thirty Somehow" tour, which was also broadcast on Channel 4, in 1995. Hughes returned to stand-up, touring the UK and Australia in 2007 with his show, "The Right Side of Wrong". [" [http://www.gildedballoon.co.uk/2007/press_releases/Sean_Hughes_~The_Right_Side_of_Wrong~.pdf Sean Hughes: The Right Side of Wrong] ". Press Release. Retrieved on April 29, 2008.]

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". [" [http://dir.salon.com/story/people/feature/2002/03/13/hicks/index3.html American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story] ". "Salon". Retrieved on April 29, 2008.] 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."

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.Fact|date=November 2007 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.

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". [http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/soaps/a46680/sean-hughes-joins-corrie-cast.html Sean Hughes joins Corrie cast] Digitalspy.co.uk, May 16, 2007]

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.

References

External links

*imdb name | id=0400923 | name=Sean Hughes
* [http://www.chortle.co.uk/comics/s/689/sean_hughes Sean Hughes on Chortle]